Every year, I find myself struck by a sense of strangeness over the Triduum: it is such an extraordinary time for the Church, and yet the days often still feel very ordinary. Many people still […]
Tag: Holy Week
Egypt’s Palm Sunday Martyrs: Time and Resistance
Today, dozens of Coptic Christian churchgoers were killed in two simultaneous bombings in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt. As the so-called, self-proclaimed caliphate of ISIL claims responsibility for the attack, Christians and people of good will the […]
The Responsibility of Being a Prophetic People: Holy Thursday, Martyrdom, and the Feast of Blessed Óscar Romero
On Holy Thursday, the Roman Catholic church celebrates both a Chrism Mass in the morning and the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Every March 24th since 1980, the church also remembers the martyrdom of […]
Is there Enough Mercy for Judas?
Few biblical characters loom as large in our imagination as Judas Iscariot. The theological problem posed by Judas and his motivations have spilled oceans of ink, whether in the Gnostic sects that hailed him or […]
Why did the crowd turn on Jesus?
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the Highest!” We know how the rest of the story goes. Jesus—acclaimed as the one who is to save his people—enters Jerusalem […]
Easter Sunday: The Resurrection Was Not a Victory March
A few years ago I attended a Passion Play/Musical at a megachurch where I used to live. The play ended up being a sort of Cirque-du-Soleil performance of humanity from Adam and Eve to Jesus […]
Holy Thursday: Remembering Judaism in a Christian World
This evening will mark the official beginning of the Easter Triduum in the Catholic Church. The Triduum begins the evening of Holy/Maundy Thursday, extends through Good Friday, and ends on the evening of Easter Sunday. […]
Empowering Apostles of Joy: Rethinking our Approach to Campus Ministry
Empowering Apostles of Joy: Rethinking our Approach to Campus Ministry “If we are to experience the joy of love, we must also be generous. We cannot be content to give the minimum. We need to […]
