{"id":61783,"date":"2023-05-01T11:03:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61783"},"modified":"2023-05-14T19:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:21:01","slug":"the-liturgy-of-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/the-liturgy-of-the-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liturgy of the Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article appearing on 30 April, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/04\/30\/americans-gun-violence-strangers-crime\/\">Washington Post<\/a> reported that \u201cacross the country this month, at least four men have opened fire on someone who\u2019d stumbled upon their space, resulting in one death, two injuries and a car pocked with bullet holes.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Elgin, TX, two cheerleaders misidentified their car in a store parking lot. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/04\/19\/texas-shooting-cheerleaders-wrong-car\/\">owner<\/a> shot them.<\/li>\n<li>In Hebron, NY, a young woman in a car made her way up what she thought was the driveway for her destination. She realized her mistake and turned the car around.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/04\/18\/kaylin-gillis-shooting-ny\/\">home owner<\/a> shot and killed her.<\/li>\n<li>In Davie, FL, an Instacart delivery driver knocked at the wrong door. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/04\/24\/instacart-delivery-driver-shooting-florida\/\">home owner<\/a> shot at the driver, hitting the driver\u2019s car.<\/li>\n<li>In Kansas City, MO, a boy knocked on a door thinking that he was at the house where his siblings were playing. It was the wrong house.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/04\/19\/ralph-yarl-andrew-lester-shooting-black-fear\/\">home owner<\/a> shot him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are other recent incidents, including the Texas man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/04\/29\/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old\/\">shot and killed<\/a> some his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing his gun in his yard but here I want to focus on the indented items above.\u00a0 All of them involve simple honest mistakes on the part of those who were shot.\u00a0 Guns in the United States so often leave a trail of misery and death in their wake that the litany of sorrow numbs me.\u00a0 However, in my judgment these four incidents sound a variation in that litany.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the experts cited in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/04\/30\/americans-gun-violence-strangers-crime\/\">30 April<\/a> story are correct when they attribute these shootings to \u201cthe easy availability of guns, misconceptions around stand-your-ground laws, the marketing of firearms for self-defense \u2014 and a growing sense among Americans, particularly Republicans, that safety in their backyard is deteriorating.\u201d\u00a0 However, my attention is drawn not so much to the cause of these four shooting incidents as it is to the effects.<\/p>\n<p>As a theologian who researches the interplay between consumerism and sacramental worship, I have been fascinated by what James K.A. Smith has called \u201cliturgies of mall and market . . . that shape our imaginations and how we orient ourselves to the world.\u201d*\u00a0 The practice of shopping (or even just being present as other shop) can condition one to perceive the world in a certain way.\u00a0 This \u201ccertain way\u201d might be characterized by the idea that everything is or should be immediately available.\u00a0 It might include comparing one\u2019s bodily appearance and one\u2019s clothing to the ads plastered everywhere.\u00a0 It might even include judging one\u2019s associates by the standards of those ads.\u00a0 In this way, shopping can invite a kind of competitive individualism.\u00a0 Christian worship, on the other hand, at least ideally involves curtailing individualism.\u00a0 No. 95 of the <em>General Instruction of the Roman Missal<\/em> directs that \u201c[members of the assembly] are to shun any appearance of individualism or division, keeping before their eyes that they have only one Father in heaven and accordingly are all brothers and sisters to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wonder now about the liturgy of the gun, which in the four highlighted cases amounts to \u201cmake a mistake \u2013 get shot.\u201d\u00a0 I am not inviting anyone to be the next shooting victim.\u00a0 Yet what are we (and what am *I*) doing to be a vital part of a \u201cChurch which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security\u201d (Francis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/apost_exhortations\/documents\/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html\">Evangelii Gaudium<\/a>, 49)?\u00a0 What are our liturgies doing to form us into believers who will reach out to others and risk the honest mistake?\u00a0 What are *we* doing to form our liturgies so that these liturgies will help us to respond, in ways large and small, to the liturgy of the gun?<\/p>\n<p>*James K.A. 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