The Philadelphia Liturgical Institute is seeks to understand how local congregations experience the relationship between liturgy and culture .
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Author: Timothy Brunk
Timothy Brunk is associate professor of theology at Villanova University. He teaches courses in sacramental theology and in pastoral care of the sick. His major research focus at present is the interplay of consumer culture and sacramental worship. A number of articles on the topic are in print and a book is in the works.
A Wedding Mass
The homilist addressed the soon-to-be-married couple, telling them that in each other they have found “the cause of and the work of your salvation.” The phrase struck me as a fine way to characterize marriage.
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Alleluia*!
Do our liturgies celebrate a joy that is sober? Do they reflect a realism that is infused with hope?
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Receiving in the Hand: A Meditation
What receiving Communion in the hand has meant to me lately.
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Keeping Vigil in Advent
God has offered Godself to humanity in Jesus. The appropriate return-gift is a life offered to God: a life of compassion, forgiveness, and promotion of justice. These are the themes to ponder in Advent.
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The Shepherd in Sutherland Springs
“Tell them it’s good to see them in God’s house this morning.”
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Celebrating One Baptism in Christ
Catholics and Baptists, Lutherans and Episcopalians, Orthodox and Presbyterians, Methodists and members of the United Church of Christ gathered around a font given by Lutherans to Episcopalians for use in the Episcopal Cathedral.
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At the Society for Catholic Liturgy
On 28-30 September, the Society for Catholic Liturgy held its annual conference in Philadelphia, PA. The theme of the conference was “The Liturgy and Post Modernity.”
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More Mercy on the Brain
The humility of which Augustine speaks, then, is surely a matter of not aiming too high. (See Adam and Eve, fall of.) Knowing oneself is also, however, a matter of not aiming too low.
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The Trouble with Normal
The “normal” with which we now live is a problem. As Canadian songwriter Bruce Cockburn has put it, “the trouble with normal is it always gets worse.”
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