Author: Teresa Berger
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February 2: On reaching “that light which never fails”
Deep in my heart, I believe that if God’s light were not stronger than all the depth of human iniquity that can surround people passing from this world to the next, it would not be worth blessing candles today.
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Christmas 2022: Of Cooks and Code-switches
What happened in Bethlehem, after all,turns all expectations of what constitutes normality on its head.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Why care about November 30 as “Remembrance Day for Lost Species”?
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September 1: Praying “In the Great Cathedral of Creation”
Rather, it is we – the human voices in this cosmic choir – who need to be reminded that we do not sing alone in praise of God.
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13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 1st Sunday post-Roe
I want to invite us all to a kind of liturgical “mapping” here.
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Of Tombs that are Empty, and Tombs that are Filling
So, on this Easter 2022, I will simply have to hold together the beautiful images from Queen Melisende’s Psalter, with the photo of a Ukrainian mother, Nadiya Trubchaninova, wailing at the coffin of her son Vadym.
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February 2: “There was also a Prophet…” (Luke 2:36)
Candlemas also marks the death of a 20th-century prophet.
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1 Star — 3 Wise Men — and 13.8 Billion Years of Worship
Ever since then, the Three Kings, coming from the East, have stood for a worship of Christ beyond all local and ethnic boundaries. But what if we draw the circle even wider?
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Eucharistic Non-Coherence
I am unsure that my severe case of eucharistic non-coherence can be cured any time soon.