Roomin' House Blues

If any of my Catholic readers have questions on Holy Week this should answer them. USCCB - (Liturgy) - Eighteen Questions on the Paschal Triduum

From Springsteen's Pete Seeger CD, as we are getting ready for Good Friday, thinking of Mary weeping for her son.

Getting read for Good Friday I will begin to post passion and crucifixion scenes to my blog.

It is Lent and I have to ask - am I walking with Jesus?  Can I walk with Jesus?  In Pier Palo Pasolini's  masterpiece,   "Gospel According to St. Matthew" Jesus moves, talks and works with relentless intensity and sense of direction, and from that film I have formed a sense of how Jesus moved in the world from his Baptism until his crucification.  In this film he often preaches to those he passes while he continues walking in his single minded direction.  He gives people sometimes just a one line chance to consider the Kingdom of Heaven. While the language of this film is faithfully and exclusively from Matthew, it's relentless motion reflects Marks tersity and drive. but certainly in every Gospel Jesus is always on the move.  He tells us himself that "Foxes and birds have nest and lairs, but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head."  Last Friday night at Stations of the Cross , language out of the pr...