{"id":851,"date":"2008-11-02T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/11\/what-have-you-seen-and-heard.html"},"modified":"2008-11-02T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T09:30:45","slug":"what-have-you-seen-and-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/11\/what-have-you-seen-and-heard.html","title":{"rendered":"What have you seen and heard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this Sunday before the election, this weekend of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day…what happened in your parish?
\nPrayers? Music? Homilies?
\nDid anyone go to the Dominican House of Studies Vigil of All Saints?<\/a> Or experience something similar in your area?
\nAnd the political climate, particularly among Catholics…what’s the temperature?
\nUpdate:<\/span>
\nDo read the comments – lots of interesting things going on.
\nLots of black vestments, it seems, as well – what a sea change.
\nBecause I would be teaching this morning, I went to Mass last night – no black vestments, but the homily was about purgatory and praying for the dead.
\nThe report from the others was that at this morning’s Mass, the priest (a different one – different parish) did, indeed wear black vestments.
\nFor more on black vestments – go to Shawn Tribe’s explanation at NLM here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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