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The Bittersweet Joy of Forgiveness By: Patrick Kaler, CSsR April 1977 A Priest looks at the new confession. Most people thinking of the long confessional line, would date this as pre-Vatican II. And ever since that time many pastors have been asking: “What caused that line of penitents to...
Three Myths About Aging By: Sister Mary Kirene Glavich, SND July 1981 I contend that we have been brainwashed into seeing old age as a disease rather than the last and most beautiful phase of human life, which God intended it to be—the golden age. Old age can be a...
Is the Best Yet to Come? The British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott had a wish: “May I be alive when I die!” We could do worse than making his desire our own as we move into our later years. I use it as an antidote to the temptation that asks, “Why...
A Modern Look at Mary’s Role in the Church
May-June 2013
On this day, O beautiful Mother,
On this day we bring thee our love.
Near thee, Madonna, fondly we hover,
Trusting thy gentle care to prove.
For Catholics of a certain generation, these words represent the best of childhood memories: May crowning, rosary processions, girls in white dresses, and petals strewn as far as the eye could see. For others, it represents the worst of sugary-sweet hymnody: a devotional life divorced from the liturgy of the Church and traditional forms of Marian devotion void of ecumenical sensibility.
For me, it represents neither. My memories are drawn not to elementary school, but to a local nursing home—Bishop Drumm Retirement Center. I remember going there as a kid to take my grandma to Mass and always seeing Sr. Edith, as old as any of the residents, still pounding away at the organ as best as she could. Her repertoire was limited by age and arthritis, so you could almost bet that at least once each week you’d get a rousing rendition of “On This Day.” It didn’t matter whether it was Tuesday of the fourth week of the year or the second Saturday of Easter. I wasn’t even aware that it was a May-crowning hymn until I entered the novitiate for the Dominicans; then again, before that time I’m not sure I understood exactly what May crowning was.
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Catholic institutions: As I mentioned earlier, many orders of religious women in particular are turning their health care facilities over to lay boards and administrators who promise to continue the sisters’ legacy, specifically, to look after the sick, the suffering, the frail, and the dying as if they were looking...
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