tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post2778425454450878017..comments2024-03-28T00:41:13.514-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: Ash WednesdayJBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-29464691475273796652021-02-18T15:11:58.253-08:002021-02-18T15:11:58.253-08:00God Bless!God Bless!Brutorz Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10261330634648140358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-70712227535951963722021-02-18T07:27:03.450-08:002021-02-18T07:27:03.450-08:00Back at you, Ifryt. Thanks!Back at you, Ifryt. Thanks!JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-26655071177015279872021-02-17T23:00:14.213-08:002021-02-17T23:00:14.213-08:00God bless you and your family, JB!God bless you and your family, JB!Ifrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08568876894350411986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-24024729344074899352021-02-17T22:58:46.845-08:002021-02-17T22:58:46.845-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ifrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08568876894350411986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-47783993412594055552021-02-17T22:31:11.440-08:002021-02-17T22:31:11.440-08:00Sounds like quite a show. What do they do for the ...Sounds like quite a show. What do they do for the Passion?<br /><br />Very cool to have a service featuring a rabbi. The Jesuits at my high school arranged to have rabbis visit us once or twice a year. Only wish we could have had an imam as well!<br /><br />I've known more than one midwestern Lutheran to be impressed with Catholicism (usually younger ones)...JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-60359729537655035192021-02-17T16:56:09.663-08:002021-02-17T16:56:09.663-08:00Have a blessed Lent, JB!
My favorite church servi...Have a blessed Lent, JB!<br /><br />My favorite church service is actually Tenebrae on Good Friday at my favorite church, Minneapolis's Basilica of St. Mary. <br /><br />Father Bauer always invites Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman from Temple Israel to speak to the congregation. It is an especially important thing for both sides to keep this connection going, because of the egregious history of Christians (mostly us and Eastern Orthodox) slandering Jewish people and inciting murderous violence against them on Good Friday. <br /><br />After the rabbi receives her standing ovation and leaves, the church darkens with the one-by-one extinguishing of each candle from the black candelabrum called the "Hearse".<br /><br />The heavy cross is passed over the congregation's heads like it's stage-diving. The music is dissonant, but very moving. Finally, the church is pitch-black, and we wail and pound thunderously on the ancient wooden pews. <br /><br />A spotlight breaks the darkness and beams on where the heavy cross has come to rest before the altar. <br /><br />From high in the rafters of the dome, rose petals waft down through the shaft of light to land on the cross.<br /><br />My wife and I usually end up blubbering with everyone else, and shuffle out of the church at the end.<br /><br />I can't take my hyperkinetic child, but my wife and I took our friend once, who is a slack agnostic Goth who grew up Scandinavian whitebread Lutheran. She was impressed. Karel Machahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00753758856975674463noreply@blogger.com