A profoundly blue Christmas

Little did I know when I posted something about “blue Christmas”-liturgies here recently that people not far from where I live would be forced to confront such a profoundly horrific blue Christmas indeed. I write as a mother with a son in the Connecticut school-system. My heart missed a beat yesterday.

Teresa Berger

Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT, USA, where she also serves as the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology. She holds doctorates in both theology and in liturgical studies. Recent publications include an edited volume, Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation (2019), and a monograph titled @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (2018). Earlier publications include Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History (2011), Fragments of Real Presence (2005), and a video documentary, Worship in Women’s Hands (2007).

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  1. Paul Inwood

    My deepest sympathy and prayers for all who are caught up in this horrific act, and for all my friends in the American school system generally.

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  2. Charles Culbreth

    Lullay, lully, lullay…..
    Thank you Teresa. Thank you Paul, and know that many of us still pray for those little souls lost in Scotland years ago, as well as all the innocents of Syria, the Sudan, Modgadishu and everywhere unfathomable evil and violence reigns.
    There is a portion of Dr. John Zmirak’s latest book, THE BAD CATHOLICS’ GUIDE TO THE CATECHISM (Don’t let the title fool you) worth reading (and perhaps I can come back and quote it). It expiates how our faith’s teaching helps us cope with the aggression of evil, especially as regards “patience.”
    I have offered some other thoughts here:
    http://musicgiftofgod.blogspot.com/2012/12/whatever-side-of-net-its-dies-irae.html

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