So, on this Easter 2022, I will simply have to hold together the beautiful images from Queen Melisende’s Psalter, with the photo of a Ukrainian mother, Nadiya Trubchaninova, wailing at the coffin of her son Vadym.
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Category: 4_THE PLAZA
Holy Week, Pascha, and War: A Year of Reckoning
God is offering to rebuild our dry bones into the body of Christ that loves, serves, saves, and bears witness.
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God’s Hands, Our Hands: A Holy Week Reflection
So many people across the globe have been on my mind throughout this Lenten season. One image haunts me even as it steadies my thoughts. Hands.
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Holy Week, Again
Agony, agony caused by gun and greed Jesus dies again
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An April 1 Litany
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved it is the power of God.
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A Widow’s Mi(gh)te
I have been wandering a writing wilderness. My human dustiness has fogged my brain and smudged my creative vision for many months now. A few
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Symbolic Dissonance
This sanctuary is decorated for Lent. I don’t think we’re even ready for a “blue-ish” purple vs. “red-ish” purple conversation here.
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Praying for Peace with Sighs Too Deep for Words
We do not want to pray unintelligently, but we also cannot evade the ultimately mysterious aspect of all our acts of prayer.
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We Do Not Intend to Offer Any Further Guidelines for the Holy Week Celebrations
Yesterday the Congregation for Divine Worship published a Note on the liturgies for Holy Week 2023. This Note does not contain any great innovations, but
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There Are Good Reasons to Support the RCIA – A response to an essay at NCR
The Church today asks us to conduct ourselves in a particular way in Christian initiation because the way we initiate is a fundamental expression of who we are.
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