Caught Up in God

Rejoice, O earth, in shining splendor, radiant in the brightness of your King! Christ has conquered! Glory fills you! Darkness vanishes for ever! (Easter Proclamation, Roman Rite) There is a literary practice called the “pathetic fallacy,” which attributes human feelings to non-human creation. Often the pathetic fallacy is used to show the natural surroundings in [...]

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Do you remember all the Christmas specials on television during the weeks and days leading up to December 25? Now, have you noticed the Easter programming? If not, that’s probably because it is virtually nonexistent. I’ve perused our local paper’s program guide for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday, and found scarcely [...]

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