Ep 12 - Bonus reflections after Holy Week

The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year

Laura reflects on her powerful and unexpected experience of Holy Week.

She recalls the scene/joke from the Tony award-winning musical "Passing Strange." (Great musical - with adult language and themes)

We talk about the forms of worship, from traditional to modern and the effects they produce. Joseph Campbell had strong opinions on this. "....they've translated the Mass out of ritual language and into a language that has a lot of domestic associations. The Latin of the Mass was a language that threw you out of the field of domesticity. The altar was turned so that the priest's back was to you, and with him you addressed yourself outward. .... They've forgotten that the function of ritual is to pitch you out, not to wrap you back in where you have been all the time. ... the rituals that once conveyed an inner reality are now merely form."

-- Joseph Campbell

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