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Easter Week 2010

Holy Week is intense, especially the Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday with the Easter Vigil Liturgy.

But then, this week is also major even though all have gone back to work as in ordinary time.

The daily liturgies have festive hymns full of Alleluia's and a sung Gloria in the service music. The Scripture readings are almost "too much" in a sequence of day after day:

Monday: Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary running to the tomb: "Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me."

Tuesday: Mary Magdalene weeping. "Mary!"

"I have seen the Lord," and then reported wht he had told her.

Wednesday: Two of Jesus' disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus.....

Thursday: "Peace be with you." "Have you anything to eat?"

Friday: "Children, have you caught anything to eat?"..."Come have breakfast."


Saturday: "Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature."


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Two observations: Faith is not abstract concepts, but living relationships with confidence and renewed love and compassion.

Also, while the rituals are stylized gestures, colors, textures and movements the human body saturated with a new consciousness with mind in the heart actually experiences the death and life of Christ Jesus in our midst. This is Church, those of us living "as if" He is in us.