Liturgical Spirituality Archives

The Paschal Triduum that (almost) Wasn’t

My daughter’s fearlessness in the face of mud puddles gives us a new slant on the font, and those brave catechumens who (will eventually) plunge into those murky baptismal waters.

Liturgy and COVID-19

February 28, 2020 Timothy Brunk Eucharist Liturgical Spirituality Pastoral Theology

What does it mean to be a people who must exist—even temporarily—without the day of the Lord?

Way of the Cross (Public Domain,www.pixabay.com)

Liturgy 0, Popular Piety 1

February 20, 2020 Liborius Lumma Devotions and Sacramentals Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year Popular Piety Vatican II

Whether the Way of the Cross should be held on March 25 or not.

Liturgy and the οἰκουμένη

January 27, 2020 Timothy Brunk Ecumenism Environment and Ecology Liturgical Spirituality

Are we promoting the recapitulation of all things in Christ?

Liturgies and Malls 2

December 24, 2019 Timothy Brunk Liturgical Spirituality

Are our liturgies marked by “a synthetic sense of eternity”?

Christ is Coming and He Looks like the Abominable Snowman!

December 20, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year

Neither the Incarnation nor the end times involve the bright and shiny Savior we expect.

Can we give up Christmas this Advent?

November 22, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year Secularism

The strife is o’er and the battle won…won by the dying mall—the elf on the shelf—and the peppermint mocha-flavored beverage I’m enjoying as I’m writing this.