{"id":59659,"date":"2022-03-30T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=59659"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:05:55","slug":"symbolic-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/symbolic-dissonance\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbolic Dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I was planning my \u201cIntroduction to Liturgy and Sacraments\u201d syllabus earlier this semester for my undergraduates, I was somehow deluded into thinking that it made sense to talk about \u201cliturgical art and liturgical music\u201d in the same class session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was I thinking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the grand scope of the course, in which we\u2019re trying to cover the history of sacraments, liturgical theology, each sacramental rite, the liturgical year, daily prayer, and, oh, by the way, \u201cspirituality,\u201d lumping arts and music together seemed reasonable in the bright moments of pre-semester hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day arrived for the discussion\u2014we read parts of <em>Built of Living Stones<\/em> and <em>Sing to the Lord<\/em>\u2014and then the questions came.&nbsp; I had expected the energy to center on Catholic music (I\u2019m a musician, so I\u2019m a little self-interested).&nbsp; But, the most compelling observations\u2014and wonders&#8212;came with respect to architecture.&nbsp; Why are churches built the way they are?&nbsp; Why does my church look like <em>this<\/em>?&nbsp; What does the way they are built <em>mean<\/em> (if anything)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One student wanted to know why his church had eight sides.&nbsp;&nbsp; Another student eagerly looked up\u2014her church had eight sides, too.&nbsp; I asked them, \u201cWhy do <em>you<\/em> think it has 8 sides?\u201d&nbsp; They had suggestions:&nbsp; \u201cSo people can see each other.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cSo we get that sense of <em>community<\/em> because the congregation sees each other.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cSo people can see the <em>altar <\/em>better.\u201d&nbsp; I waited for more. &nbsp;Another student helpfully offered, \u201cHow about, for sound?&nbsp; Aren\u2019t the acoustics better?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these things may be true\u2014but there\u2019s still something more.&nbsp; I asked them: \u201cWe just talked about the theology of Sunday.&nbsp; What day of the week is Sunday?\u201d&nbsp; Lightbulbs began to blink.&nbsp; Sunday is the first day\u2026and the eighth day.&nbsp; That\u2019s why a church might have eight sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t begrudge my students not immediately seeing this connection\u2014some of them are quite new to thinking about liturgical theology, let alone applying it to their concrete experiences of worship. 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Harmon, Ph.D., is Project Director for the Obsculta Preaching Initiative at Saint John\u2019s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. \u202fA Roman Catholic pastoral liturgist and American Catholic historian, Harmon is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame\u2019s liturgical studies program.\u202f She has contributed over a dozen articles and chapters to the fields of both liturgical studies and American Catholicism.\u202f She is the author of\u202f There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959\u202f(Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2013) and\u202fMary and the Liturgical Year: A Pastoral Resource\u202f (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2023). She edits the blog, Pray Tell.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/kharmon\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Paraments-in-Lent.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65863,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59659\/revisions\/65863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}