{"id":43204,"date":"2013-03-25T00:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T07:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=43204"},"modified":"2014-12-30T00:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T07:31:03","slug":"the-illustrious-erin-manning-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/03\/the-illustrious-erin-manning-writes.html","title":{"rendered":"The Illustrious Erin Manning writes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Mark, I\u2019m asking you to do me a favor if you can.\u00a0 Deirdre Mundy, a wonderful writer who doesn\u2019t actually blog<\/a> all that often (what with little ones at home and all) has written a pitch-perfect piece about Pope Francis\u2019 decision to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass in a juvenile prison. Here\u2019s just a little of it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Father Z. talks about rebuilding the church brick by brick. And saving the liturgy is very important\u2013 but what if our new Pope has noticed that the foundations are also cracked? All the beautiful liturgy in the world will be worthless if we forget what\u2019s at the root. Francis wants to lead us to a personal encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist, but he also wants to remind us that we are a Church of sinners, and that Jesus didn\u2019t shun those who weren\u2019t pure enough or good enough or refined enough. Those people, the prisoners and the lepers, deserve a beautiful,reverent liturgy too, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

Under Benedict, some of us embraced a new monasticism. We prepared to hunker down with our families, to keep the light alive as the world plunged into darkness. For eight years, we read, we learned, we prepared.\u00a0 Some of us assumed that the time to shine forth wouldn\u2019t be for generations. We assumed that Benedict was preparing us to keep the flame alive for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n

Now Francis is here, shouting that we must take the Gospel out into the world, bring the indifferent back to the Church, and proclaim Christ to all of our neighbors.\u00a0 I think Benedict understood that it was time. He started liturgical reforms \u2013 when we bring others back to the Church, we can have a beautiful place prepared for them. But all the liturgical reform in the world won\u2019t do any good if we keep it to ourselves.<\/p>\n

I know that others, including the incomparable Simcha Fisher, have written about this (I was reading Simcha\u2019s post when I saw Deirdre\u2019s in my reader).\u00a0 But I thought Deirdre\u2019s understanding of what\u2019s going on here is so amazing, and so beautiful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep.\u00a0 The whole silly business of pitting Benedict and Francis against one another is folly, no matter who is doing it.\u00a0 One\u00a0Holy Father has, in the Providence of God, paved\u00a0the\u00a0way for the work of the next one.\u00a0 I think we are living in exciting times!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark, I\u2019m asking you to do me a favor if you can.\u00a0 Deirdre Mundy, a wonderful writer who doesn\u2019t actually blog all that often (what with little ones at home and all) has written a pitch-perfect piece about Pope Francis\u2019 decision to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass in a juvenile prison. 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