{"id":6865,"date":"2006-07-05T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T00:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/mysteries.html"},"modified":"2006-07-05T00:10:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T00:10:53","slug":"mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/mysteries.html","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img99.imageshack.us\/img99\/4373\/waggons175px4ty.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,3933-2251240,00.html\">A Times (UK) article on the York Mystery Plays, about to be performed again:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>York was holding such performances as early as 1376. Usually they were on the feast of Corpus Christi, which falls on the first Thursday after Trinity between May 23 and June 24. The 12 plays presented this year are based on a manuscript by a single scribe. Thought to have been completed in 1463-77, it is entitled <em>The Register of the Corpus Christ Play<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The Dean of York, the Very Rev Keith Jones, is a patron of both the guild cycle and those of York Minster, which, it is hoped, will be enacted in the nave in 2010. York Minster, the largest Gothic cathedral north of the Alps, has hosted static productions, as have the ruins of St Mary\u2019s Abbey and the stage of York Theatre Royal. <\/p>\n<p>Jones says there is a tradition of telling the Christian story in a public forum, which helps to impart a new understanding of the Christian faith. \u201cThe text is a marvellous quarry,\u201d he says, from which each generation presents its interpretation. <\/p>\n<p>His tolerance contrasts with views of a predecessor, Dean Hutton, who banned the plays in 1568, declaring: \u201cAs I find manie thinges that I muche like because of the antiquite, so I see manie thinges that I cannot allowe, because they be disagreinge from the senceritie of the gospel.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In the modern era the plays were restarted in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, attracting an audience of more than 26,000 that year. Until recently Christ was portrayed by professional actors \u2014 and a young Judi Dench played Mary in 1957. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkmysteryplays.org\/index_highres.htm\">One site on the York Mystery Plays<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkmysteryplays.co.uk\/history.htm\">Another.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkstories.fsnet.co.uk\/york_mystery_plays_2002\/guilds_info.htm\">On the York Guilds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Times (UK) article on the York Mystery Plays, about to be performed again: York was holding such performances as early as 1376. Usually they were on the feast of Corpus Christi, which falls on the first Thursday after Trinity between May 23 and June 24. 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The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. 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