{"id":61132,"date":"2022-11-29T21:46:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T03:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61132"},"modified":"2022-12-09T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T00:13:53","slug":"today-wednesday-november-30-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, November 30, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 is a number of different things in the different calendars we all keep, or juggle to keep together.<\/p>\n

In the liturgical calendar, today falls in the first week of advent 2022. It is also the feast of the Apostle Andrew, celebrated not only ecclesially but in some places (e.g., Scotland, and Barbados) also as a civic or national holiday. As the latter example indicates, there are always other calendric markers that intersect with the liturgical calendar, such as civic or national calendars, or an academic calendar that might make this the last full week of classes.<\/p>\n

Of increasing importance to me for some years now have been planetary, cosmological, and ecological calendars. In the latter, November 30 is a somber day, and day of mourning. For over a decade now, the day has been marked as the \u201cRemembrance Day for Lost Species\u201d [https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Why should Christians, and in particular those of us involved in liturgical practices and liturgical studies, care? Why on earth should we care that today is the \u201cRemembrance Day for Lost Species\u201d? After all, someone also declared November 30 to be \u201cNational Mousse Day,\u201d and someone else \u201cNational Methamphetamine Awareness Day,\u201d and someone else still, \u201cNational Computer Security Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why care about November 30 as \u201cRemembrance Day for Lost Species\u201d?<\/p>\n

Pope Francis offered a succinct and startling answer to this in his encyclical Laudato Si\u2019<\/em>: \u201cBecause of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence\u201d (LS 33), he wrote. Translated into the language of worship, we might say: The human-driven extinction of species is diminishing the planetary community of our fellow creatures who worship God, as do we. No wonder Pope Francis challenged us to experience this loss as akin to an amputation: \u201cI would reiterate that \u2018God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement\u2019\u201d (LS 89).<\/p>\n

I will take time, then, on this November 30, 2022, to honor this \u201cRemembrance Day for Lost Species,\u201d and to mourn the loss of some of our creaturely fellow worshippers. In particular, I will mourn, the loss of the beautiful ivory-billed woodpecker and the Carolina parakeet, both extinct creatures of the region I now live in.<\/p>\n

Images of these and other creatures threatened by extinction can be accessed here: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/gallery\/2022\/jun\/06\/extinct-and-endangered-species-in-pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why care about November 30 as \u201cRemembrance Day for Lost Species\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":61133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3119,2972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-plaza-new-ws","category-environment-and-ecology"],"yoast_head":"\nWednesday, November 30, 2022 - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why care about November 30 as \u201cRemembrance Day for Lost Species\u201d?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-30T03:46:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-10T00:13:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-extinct.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2020\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2444\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Teresa Berger\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Teresa Berger\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Teresa Berger\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/82a34b30adfbe1d150d95e2fd06e90d4\"},\"headline\":\"Wednesday, November 30, 2022\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-30T03:46:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-10T00:13:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":412,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/2-extinct.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"4_THE PLAZA\",\"Environment and Ecology\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/\",\"name\":\"Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - Home\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/2-extinct.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-30T03:46:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-10T00:13:53+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/2-extinct.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/2-extinct.webp\",\"width\":2020,\"height\":2444},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/29\\\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Wednesday, November 30, 2022\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Home\",\"description\":\"Worship, Wit & Wisdom\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Home\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg\",\"width\":1340,\"height\":209,\"caption\":\"Home\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/82a34b30adfbe1d150d95e2fd06e90d4\",\"name\":\"Teresa Berger\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Berger-PIC-iPhone-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Berger-PIC-iPhone-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Berger-PIC-iPhone-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"caption\":\"Teresa Berger\"},\"description\":\"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\u2019s Hands (2007).\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.yale.edu\\\/ism\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/tberger\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - Home","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - Home","og_description":"Why care about November 30 as \u201cRemembrance Day for Lost Species\u201d?","og_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/","og_site_name":"Home","article_published_time":"2022-11-30T03:46:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-10T00:13:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2020,"height":2444,"url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-extinct.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Teresa Berger","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Teresa Berger","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/"},"author":{"name":"Teresa Berger","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/82a34b30adfbe1d150d95e2fd06e90d4"},"headline":"Wednesday, November 30, 2022","datePublished":"2022-11-30T03:46:27+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-10T00:13:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/"},"wordCount":412,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-extinct.webp","articleSection":["4_THE PLAZA","Environment and Ecology"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/","name":"Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - Home","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-extinct.webp","datePublished":"2022-11-30T03:46:27+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-10T00:13:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-extinct.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-extinct.webp","width":2020,"height":2444},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/today-wednesday-november-30-2022\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Wednesday, November 30, 2022"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/","name":"Home","description":"Worship, Wit & Wisdom","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization","name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg","width":1340,"height":209,"caption":"Home"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/82a34b30adfbe1d150d95e2fd06e90d4","name":"Teresa Berger","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Berger-PIC-iPhone-96x96.jpg?crop=1","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Berger-PIC-iPhone-96x96.jpg?crop=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Berger-PIC-iPhone-96x96.jpg?crop=1","caption":"Teresa Berger"},"description":"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\u2019s Hands (2007).","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/ism"],"url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/tberger\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-extinct.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61132","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61135,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61132\/revisions\/61135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}