Liturgical Spirituality Archives

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.

The Liturgy of the Mall

November 18, 2019 Timothy Brunk Liturgical Spirituality Liturgy and Virtues

How do we understand the ways in which habitual participation in Christian liturgy forms us?

Be Ye Kind to One Another

November 13, 2019 Jill Crainshaw Liturgical Spirituality

I pray that Christian worship practices cultivate kindness—birth it in its most radical and world-changing forms in the marrow of our bones.

Keep me in the shadow of your wings

November 10, 2019 Lizette Larson Art and Architecture Liturgical Spirituality Liturgy of the Hours

For many, the ambiguity of shadow is perhaps an important symbol, a pointing to our partial vision of the economy of God and a faithful participation of life between realities.

Why Wait for Christmas?

November 8, 2019 Fr. Neil Xavier O'Donoghue Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year Uncategorized

Having recently celebrated the November feasts of All Saints and All Souls (or was it Halloween we were celebrating last week?) It seems that Christmas