Sun, 23 Mar 2008
Victimae paschali laudes
Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
Apostles: "(Oh reeeeeally?) Tell us, Mary; what did you see on the way? (snicker; nudge nudge wink wink)."
Mary Magdalen, breathless after her run from the tomb: "I saw the tomb of the living Christ and I saw the glory of his rising; angelic witnesses, his burial veil and shroud. Christ my hope is risen and he precedes you into Galilee (get up off yer keisters!). We know that Christ is truly risen from the dead - O victorious King, have mercy on us."
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007
Kinda like Easter
Here's an article from the Philadelphia Daily News about the hectic preparations for Yom Kippur (starts tomorrow night) in a large Philly synagogue, Congregation Rodeph Shalom.
But "hectic" bordering on "frantic" may best describe the days leading up to Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown Friday.
"I haven't slept in weeks," Carol Perloff, communications director for Congregation Rodeph Shalom on North Broad Street, said this afternoon. "It's like a meeting of a small nation."
Sounds like the folks who prepare Holy Week & Easter liturgies.
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