Author: Lizette Larson
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Go in peace to love and serve the Lord (or just come to coffee…)
Rethinking the “eighth sacrament” of coffee hour.
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“What have candles to do with flowers?”
I am often amazed at how rarely academics have a chance (or take the opportunity) to listen to their colleagues speak about their own work, and at the same time, how insightful and edifying the exercise can be to learn unknown aspects of theology and religious studies from someone who knows ‘other things.’ For me…
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The spacious room of liturgy
We have been asking too little of our liturgical communities.
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Societas Liturgica, the virtual version
From July 20th to the 22nd, a number of liturgical scholars around the world gathered together in a technologically brilliant congress of Societas Liturgica, the primary ecumenical, multi-lingual and global organization for those engaged professionally and otherwise in liturgical studies. Using the resources (human, financial, and technological) of the University of Notre Dame – which…
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Another Disaster, Another Ritual
Is religion in the public square the work of religions other than Christianity?
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Ritual land acknowledgements: inculturated justice or ritual overload?
Land acknowledgement is already common in primary Sunday liturgies in Canada.
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Church and State, Remembrance and Commendation: The Funeral of HRH Prince Philip
Watching the funeral of Prince Philip today (like so many people around the world) elicited a sequence of often-conflicting emotions in this liturgist. In my case, I was glued to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company). The funeral played on multiple channels in Canada, not surprising, recalling that Canada is a member of the Commonwealth, (and a…
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Holy Liturgies in an Unholy Pandemic
What liturgical adaptations have been put in place because of the pandemic?
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Common Prayer as Common Vision?
How does a conversation on prayer in common and the perspectives of different generations bring understanding to differences of perception and expectation? While strictly stereotyping an “older” generation (we’ll call them ‘baby-boomers’) and a “younger” generation (we’ll call them Gen Z and younger Millennials) is never wise – after all, there are considerable variables between…