60-Second Sermon

By Dr. Katharine Harmon, February 18, 2026

Greetings on this Ash Wednesday. Dr. Katharine Harmon, Pray Tell’s editor and Saint John’s School of Theology faculty, helps us see that broadcasting to the world our brokenness before God on Ash Wednesday is not merely a marker of shame, but a hopeful reminder that only in God’s mercy we find true rest. 

Katharine E. Harmon

Katharine E. Harmon, Ph.D., is Project Director for the Obsculta Preaching Initiative at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota.  A Roman Catholic pastoral liturgist and American Catholic historian, Harmon is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s liturgical studies program.  She has contributed over a dozen articles and chapters to the fields of both liturgical studies and American Catholicism.  She is the author of  There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2013) and Mary and the Liturgical Year: A Pastoral Resource  (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2023). She co-edits the blog, Pray Tell: Worship, Wit & Wisdom. 

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