April 14, 2006, 08:48
Holy Thursday in ManchesterLast night after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at Saint Marie Parish in Manchester, a great many of the parishioners processed with lighted candles, following the priests and robed altar servers, the elevated cross, the sacred Host, a truck on which musicians played, through the city to Sacred Heart Parish. Police cars and motorcycles stopped traffic at the intersections and the blue light from the flashers muddled with the moon and candlelight. This walk through the balmy darkness, under the silver-dollar light of a swollen moon seemed exotic to me, anachronistic in the best of ways, a powerful statement not of individual performance, but of organic unity, not of material purpose but of transcendent desire. (More)
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