People often talk about the 21st century, particularly in America, as a time when capitalism, consumerism and advertising have run amok. And while they’re not wrong, it’s somewhat encouraging to discover that as it is now, so it has always been. It’s a difference in degree, not in kind, and it has its roots in [...]
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Rich in What Matters to God
Posted in Lent, Link, New Testament, Prayer, Triduum, lectio divina on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The waiting is over!
Posted in Easter, Gospels, Holy Week, Lectionary, Liturgy, Triduum on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes when we put everything we have into anticipating a great event—planning, preparing, hoping, dreaming—the event itself can sometimes seem almost anticlimactic, as though it couldn’t live up to the hype. Brides and grooms have said this of their wedding days, when after months and months of planning every perfect detail, they have little recollection [...]
Tenebrae: ‘The light shines in the darkness’
Posted in Gospels, Holy Week, Liturgy, Old Testament, Prophets, Triduum on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I went to the Tenebrae service at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral last night. This has become my personal tradition for entering into the Triduum. I first experienced it back in the late 1980s at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame, where it was sung after the Mass on the Lord’s Supper [...]
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