It wasn rsquo t until I was a Jesuit novice age 28 nbsp that I even knew there was such a thing as an Easter Vigil nbsp In 1989 when I was working in Kingston Jamaica and went to my first Vigil Mass at a Jesuit-run parish mdash with the Paschal candle the singing of the Exsultet the baptism

We nbsp spend most of our lives in Holy Saturday nbsp For the most part our daily lives are not moments of sheer abject terror mdash like Good Friday nbsp Nor are they moments of delirious exaltation mdash like Easter Sunday nbsp Rather we are often in the ldquo middle time rdquo as th

Cambridge MA Here is the third installment in my Triduum exercise in listening to Paramahamsa Yogananda whose reflections on the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper and Crucifixion I sampled for you in the preceding days Like many a preacher I find Easter a rather daunting feast on which to prea

The Passion can seem so far away nbsp Despite the fact that many of us will listen very carefully to the story of the Passion today the events that happened in 1st-century Palestine can seem unimaginably distant nbsp When I was growing up in suburban Philadelphia it seemed not participatory b

Cambridge MA As indicated in my previous entry several days ago I am offering you three entries this Holy Week in meditation on the mysteries of the Last Supper the death of Jesus and the Resurrection But not my own thoughts rather recognizing that we have so many resources within the Chris

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp What is it like to let Jesus serve you nbsp The answer is in the look on St Peter s face in this my favorite nbsp painting by Ford Madox nbsp Brown of t