Day: April 22, 2011
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Mary sat at home
The second day of the Triduum is a day of silence.
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A Reflection for Good Friday and Holy Saturday
“I thirst.” We thirst for clearer vision, to know the good, to see through the evil and harm that is ever present.
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Good Friday: Jesus’ Death on the Cross as Birthing?
In the Christian tradition, there is an intriguing strand that images Jesus’ death on the cross as birthing, that is to say, the Crucified is seen as a woman in the travail of childbirth.
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Weary from Within
[T]here are also aspects of the inner life of the Church that are helping to making us weary. Many Catholics are working against Vatican II by criticising it and distancing themselves from it; by working against ecumenism and the liturgical reform.
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Everett A. Diederich, r.i.p.
Father Everett A. Diederich, S.J., 1920 – 2011, died on Wednesday. He was scholar in residence and chaplain to the staff of the Stroble Center for Liturgy in St. Louis.
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An Austrian bishop on intercommunion, celibacy
“If non-Catholic partners can say Yes to the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist, they can also receive Communion.” “I can imagine an opening up regarding celibacy.”
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Soliloquies of the Passion
Reflect on the events of Christ’s Passion with this triptych of meditations by Pray Tell reader Jeff Rexhausen.