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The Christian world enters into its most intense experience of meditation this week. This is the week of lengthy readings and long liturgies. It is our most solemn time of year, the week in which we come face to face with the mystery of mysteries, the climax of the whole redemptive act: the Paschal Mystery of Christ.
For many of us
today, living in the age of cyber-stimulus and multitasking, the act of
“entering” into the mystery may have become more difficult. How do we calm our
minds and join Christ in the garden of Gethsemane or along the via crucis? How
do we accompany Christ in his passion and then rejoice in his resurrection? Often
we settle for the platitudinous imagery of yesteryear’s holy cards, or are
limited in our mind’s eye to scenes we’ve seen from Christian movies. It is the
latter that I want to consider right now, for I sometimes have the suspicion
that Zeffirelli has had more to do with my image of Christ than the living Gospels themselves
– with no offense to Zeffirelli.
