Leon J. Podles :: DIALOGUE

In case you missed what I was getting at in the Hopi post, over at the ever-fascinating Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity, our blogger Arturo notes:
I’m so Catholic …I pray to saints even the Pope doesn’t recognize. When we went to the cemetery as children, we used to visit the graves of [...]

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Today is hung upon the Tree, He who suspended the earth amid the waters.
A crown of thorns crowns Him, Who is the King of Angels.
He is wrapped in the purple of mockery, Who wrapped the heavens with clouds.
He is buffeted with blows, Who freed Adam in the Jordan.
He is transfixed with nails, Who [...]

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Ubi Caritas et amor, ibi Deus est
A new commandment (mandatum) I give to you, love one another, as I have loved you.
But the beloved disciple, reclining on Jesus’ breast, asked, who it was who would betray him. The one who dipped his hand in the dish with me is the one, Jesus answered. Judas took [...]

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Today is Spy Wednesday, because Judas was spying out an opportunity to betray Jesus, as he would do with a kiss.
I often wonder whether Judas thought Jesus would escape as he had before, no harm would have been done, and Judas would have been thirty silver pieces richer. When Judas realized that his plan was [...]

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Notice the hats on the right. Jews were required to wear these during the fourteenth century.

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