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In this morning’s New York Times I came upon an advertisement by an antiques dealer<\/a> for an “Irish Wake Table.” With apologies to our Irish readers, I must admit that I had never heard of such a thing before. The long, drop leaf table is specially designed to be able not only to serve dinner, but also to support a coffin.<\/p>\n

In the “denial of death” culture in which we live, it was startling to see. To me as a Catholic, however, it makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

What struck me was the close connection between life and death, between eating together and taking leave of this life. The axis of the whole Christian life is Eucharist: a meal at which the death of Jesus is celebrated, remembered, made present, and his life poured out for us. Life and death are intertwined, at the same table.<\/p>\n

God bless the Irish. The roots of the Irish wake may be pre-Christian (I am assured of this by various websites) but they’ve got that paschal thing down. It’s incarnated — inculturated — even in the furniture.<\/p>\n

I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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