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“Seven Stanzas for Easter” by John Updike
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deacon greg kandra
Make no mistake: if He rose at allit was as His body;if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the moleculesreknit, the amino acids rekindle,the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers,each soft Spring recurrent;it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddledeyes of the eleven apostles;it was as His flesh: ours.…
Exult in glory: insight into the great chant of the Easter Vigil
By
deacon greg kandra
Looking for a little dissection on The Exultet? Look no further. Visit Fr. Z’s site and you’ll find a rich and interesting look at that Everest of Chants (which Your Humble Blogger, along with countless others, will be scaling in a few short hours…I’m packing extra oxygen and ropes.)
Bracing for a busy Easter: one priest, six parishes
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deacon greg kandra
This weekend is an especially exhausting one for Catholic clergy — is it Monday yet? — but it’s more frenetic and harried in regions hard hit by the priest shortage. The Baltimore Sun has a case in point: On Palm Sunday morning, the Rev. Jim Hannon awoke at 5:30, prayed and then exercised on a…
Homily for April 11, 2009: Easter Vigil
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deacon greg kandra
“He has been raised.” In those four simple words lie all the glory and mystery and joy of this feast we celebrate. That is Easter. If you want more, all you had to do was look around you as this mass began. In the darkness of this April night, one flame ignited hundreds of others,…
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