Environment and Ecology Archives

The Yale ISM Review: On Healing

What is healing about? How does it take place? What roles do prayer, liturgy, and the arts play in the process of healing? These are some of the questions raised and discussed in this issue.

On Living with a “Green” Memento Mori

November 11, 2019 Teresa Berger Environment and Ecology Funerals/Burial Liturgical year

How do we confront our own finitude?

The End of Frankincense?

October 25, 2019 Fr. Neil Xavier O'Donoghue Environment and Ecology

N.B. this is a post about incense and not a Halloween-themed post on Frankenstein! During the 2017 Societas Liturgica conference in I was very impressed by the

Is it time for chrism masses already? Revisiting the cultures of chrism

October 13, 2019 Lizette Larson Demographics and Sociology Environment and Ecology Liturgical year

How the language of timing the liturgy and the composition of chrism takes on theologies of inculturation and christology.

Creation, Day Seven: For God and Creation, a Day of Rest

October 2, 2019 Teresa Berger Environment and Ecology

What we need to live into, not least in this time of ecological emergency, is the reality of a larger, universal, planetary communion: by reason of our createdness, we are kin with everything that is created. Maybe keeping Sabbath is one way to begin to live into this vision.

Creation, Day Six: Creativity, Hope, and Goodness

October 1, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Environment and Ecology

God chose not to stop with pterodactyls and turtles. God insisted on creating a mammal that not only had a mouth to feed, but a mouth that could talk back.

Creation, Day Five: In the Name of Every Creature Under Heaven

September 30, 2019 James Hadley, OblSB Environment and Ecology

What is happening is a sin against creation, not because we are passively threatening our own existence, but because creation has its own redemptive journey that intersects and is co-terminus with the human species.