Tag: Good Friday
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From Death to Life: Holy Week Liturgy
EDITOR — Follow the Lord on the Way to Jerusalem. Prepare for Holy Week with history and liturgical theology with Fr. Marco Benini. Part 1!
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German Bishop Calls for Withdrawal of Good Friday Petition of Benedict XVI
Bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff called for revoking the revised prayer written by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and for a definitive end to negotiations with the Society of St. Pius X.
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Ars Praedicandi: Homily for Good Friday
God died so that we could live. That was the way that God chose for us to be able to live. We couldn’t live – we can’t live – by ourselves. By ourselves, all we can do is be born, and sin, and die. We can’t save ourselves. If we will live – and we…
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Non Solum: Celebrant Adoring Cross without Shoes
Should the priest celebrant remove his chasuble and shoes to approach the Cross?
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Papal preach on Good Friday: “…residue of past ceremonials, laws and disputes…”
“We must do everything possible so that the Church may never look like that complicated and cluttered castle described by Kafka…”
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Good Friday, the Child Abuse Scandal, and The Long Dark Winter’s Night
In his book The Long Dark Winter’s Night: Reflections of a Priest in a Time of Pain and Privilege, Father Philip Bergquist, formerly of St. Raphael Catholic Church in Fairbanks, Alaska, uses the metaphor of living through the long Alaskan winter to describe his own struggles with the crisis gripping the Roman Catholic church over…
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Pelicans on Good Friday
“O pie pellicane!”
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“It is finished.” – It is not finished.
“It is finished.” The work of the Gospel is not finished until there is justice for people who have a different skin color or a different sexual orientation. The work of the Gospel is not finished until women are full partners in our Church and in our world. –Abbot John Klassen, OSB, Good Friday
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Catherine de Vinck’s “A Passion Play” for Good Friday
Here is a passage from Catherine de Vinck’s A Passion Play: A Drama for Several Voices that I thought would be especially enriching for our celebration of Good Friday.