Good Friday Fishwrap
It is Good Friday. We are in the Triduum
Welcome to Friday Fishwrap™, your weekly email filled with this week’s efforts from the staff of The Global Exclaimer.
Tridu-what?
The Triduum is a single contiguous event that began last night, on Holy Thursday. Many people think of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday as three separate holy days. But in the Church’s deepest understanding, they are one continuous liturgical event spread across three days.
That’s what the word Triduum means, “three days” but it’s not three events. It’s one single mystery unfolding in time.
Think of it like a play in three acts:
Act I: Holy Thursday (Evening) – This is where it begins. Jesus celebrates the Last Supper, gives us the Eucharist, and then goes out to pray in Gethsemane.
Act II: Good Friday – Jesus is betrayed, tried, tortured, and crucified. The sacrifice is made. There is no Mass on this day.
Act III: Holy Saturday into Easter Sunday – The silence of the tomb is broken by the Resurrection. At the Easter Vigil, the Church rejoices because death has been destroyed.
Many new to this event comment that it feels so solemn and strange. They ask: “Why does it feel so heavy, so strange, so unlike anything else?”
That’s the point. We’re not remembering something that happened long ago. We’re entering into it.
Have a good week and a Happy Easter.
Tales From The Screaming Monkey’s Head
The Train
A strange tavern, a quiet drink, and a barkeep named Kindly Bob. A man walks in from the cold and hears a tale about a train, a senator, and a bomb that should have gone off—but didn’t. The story twists, then lingers. Something isn’t quite right.
Continuing the review of White Fragility
Chapter 6
This one’s tough to review. The logic is circular, the assumptions are sweeping, and somehow white fragility explains both the crime and the denial of it. I tried to stick to summary, but this chapter made that impossible.
White Identity a Function of Black Identity
(CARROLLTON, TEXAS – Cradle of Civilization) – This chapter is much more difficult to review than Chapter 5. It is about how horribly White treats Black, and how the racial systemic guilt all white people feel for their abhorrent treatment of black people causes them to continue their abhorrent treatment of black people.
🔥 Smoky the Barely Tolerant
Government by Those Who Know the Game
The branches of government were designed to frustrate power, not enable it. But people chafe against frustration, and think short term, and want things NOW. Those that play the game know how to subvert the system. Smoky stands off to the side, shovel and fire bucket ready, watching the smoke drift from a system slowly forgetting how it’s supposed to work.
If you are enjoying The Glob and want to support me in some way, you can buy me part of a cigar!
