Julia Upton reviews The Pattern of Our Days.
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Category: Environment and Ecology
Climate Despair and Liturgical Hopefulness
Liturgical hopefulness does not look for some other world to which we can “fly away” as this one burns
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October 4, 2021: Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
The time is now to situate Christian worship within the much older, more ancient practice of primordial praise.
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A Pilgrimage to the Earth
The earth itself, the Alaskan earth—St Herman’s earth—was my relic, my pilgrimage souvenir. A sign of hope amidst corruption.
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Awareness, Wisdom, Will: A “Culture of Care”–in Liturgy
Cardinal Parolin’s brief but trenchant suggestions for a conference on climate change led me to reflect on the question of how we develop a “culture of care” in liturgy.
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Reclaiming Collective Repentance: What Can We Learn from Lost “Disaster Prayers”?
Through ritual actions and prayers of repentance in times of disaster, the church is invited to offer itself in service to those most afflicted by natural calamities and to denounce, through the act of repentance, the collective sin that exacerbates those afflictions.
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Creation, Day Seven: For God and Creation, a Day of Rest
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.
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Creation, Day Six: Creativity, Hope, and Goodness
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.
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Creation, Day Five: In the Name of Every Creature Under Heaven
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.
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Creation, Day Four: The Rhythms of Life
Perhaps it is time to realize that we are truly made in the image of God the Organizer, and God the Rhythm-Giver.
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