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Easter Sunday - March 23, 2008
And so we cry out this morning, as our kind have cried for centuries on every Easter morning:
Christ has died.
Christ has risen
Christ will come again.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Amen.
posted 6:00:00am Mar. 23, 2008 |
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Holy Saturday - March 22, 2008
Holy Saturday….Always that has seemed to me to be the strangest sort of name to put on this day. Holy? What is holy about utter silence, utter stillness, utter death? Hallowed, yes; but not holy, at least not yet, not for a few more hours. And so today I am caught all day between two tensions. I r
posted 6:00:00am Mar. 22, 2008 |
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Good Friday - March 21, 2008
As I was nearing the end of the months of compiling the Sayings of Jesus into the The Words of Jesus volume and, even more, during these last five or six weeks since it has been published, I received, and have continued to receive, some fairly thought-provoking questions. I have received enough, in
posted 6:00:00am Mar. 21, 2008 |
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Wednesday - March 19, 2008
Lent ends today; or more correctly, this is the last, full day of Lent. Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday, and tomorrow night at sunset, Lent gives way to the Triduum…to the three days that are the culmination of Lent.
Tomorrow night, Christian around the world will commemorate the Last Supper, the fina
posted 6:00:00am Mar. 19, 2008 |
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Tuesday - March 18, 2008
Many long years ago--meaning well over a quarter of a century ago--I wrote a book about Lent entitled Final Sanity. It and/or pieces of it have been re-printed so many times that I don't even have a record of where and when, except to say that it was re-published in toto by Loyola Press some three o
posted 6:00:00am Mar. 18, 2008 |
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posted March 20, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I have greatly appreciated and enjoyed your postings so far. There’s something really nice about this post that hits me.
Thank you.