What Happened?
March 26, 2018
50 Days
My mother has a habit of falling asleep soon after the start of a movie airing on tv. She sleeps as the movie plays. Then, about 30 minutes from the ending, she wakes up, sometimes asking, “What happened?” Granted, some movies can be summed up in one or two sentences. For example, the plot lines of many action movies like The Fast and the Furious and their 834 sequels, a favorite genre of my late step-father, can be summed up fairly concisely. Someone did something, the good guys chased the bad guys, after many explosions and much witty banter, the movie ended with one or two threads open for a sequel, depending on the box office success. But explaining a movie that is filled with silence, symbolism, ancient wisdom in the stories of our faith, and holy acts bound together by sacrament in one minute or less? Well, that’s a...
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