{"id":3324,"date":"2007-12-13T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/12\/you-dont-see-the-stations-of-the-cross.html"},"modified":"2007-12-13T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T13:49:00","slug":"you-dont-see-the-stations-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/12\/you-dont-see-the-stations-of-the-cross.html","title":{"rendered":"“You don’t see the Stations of the Cross”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, Rocco posted about St. Louis’s Fr. John Jay Hughes<\/a>, whose homilies have become the stuff of legend. The good padre now has started posting them to a blog<\/a>. One of my readers sifted through some of the homilies and came across this wonderful nugget: <\/p>\n

“The Lord came to me more recently, and spoke to me, in words of a woman, a daily communicant, who said to me after many years of married life: “Father, when you walk up to the altar on your wedding day, you don’t see the Stations of the Cross.” Preaching recently to a group of men preparing for ordination as permanent deacons, and to their wives, I quoted those words. As I did so I could see heads nodding all over the chapel.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brilliant and true. And a great anecdote, I think, for a wedding homily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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