Catholic Word of the Day: PASSION PLAYS, 09-02-11

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PASSION PLAYS

The dramatic rendering of Christ's Passion in religious, artistic, and popular forms. They appeared originally as part of the ritual of the Church, first in Latin, then in German, and gradually developed in popular form until they lost their dignified character. By the seventeenth century their presentation was confined to monasteries or isolated villages. Public interest in them received new life in the nineteenth century, in the Austrian Tyrol, in southern Bohemia, and above all at Oberammergau in Bavaria, where now a world famous literary drama is enacted with appropriate music and setting. It is performed every ten years as an act of thanksgiving for the deliverance of their village from the plague.

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Have any of you attended any of the passion plays in Eastern Europe or elsewhere?

Benn an actor in one?

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Oops

Been an actor in one?

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Augustinianism	Meekness	Disposition
Pew	Authentic Interpretation	Dissimulation
Silvanus	Sacred Heart	Bar
Maestro di Camera	Natural Knowledge of God	Lollardism
Blessing	Agent	Satisfaction
Lapsi	Trisagion	Royal Veto
Beatitudes	Natural Sins	Divine Notion
Joanna	Gregorian Sacramentary	Ante Christum
Roman Primacy	War	Kerymatic Theology
Hegelianism	Tendency	Monk
Biblical Archaeology	Sacramental Presence	Collegiality
Communication of Properties	Requiescat in Pace	Delilah
Inscriptions	Satisfaction	Jeconias
Arian Churches	Jurisdiction	Hagiology
Passion Plays

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I watched a Town in Italy on tv prepare a a ten year nativity scene event. It was interesting.

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Augustinianism	Meekness	Disposition
Pew	Authentic Interpretation	Dissimulation
Silvanus	Sacred Heart	Bar
Maestro di Camera	Natural Knowledge of God	Lollardism
Blessing	Agent	Satisfaction
Lapsi	Trisagion	Royal Veto
Beatitudes	Natural Sins	Divine Notion
Joanna	Gregorian Sacramentary	Ante Christum
Roman Primacy	War	Kerygmatic Theology
Hegelianism	Tendency	Monk
Biblical Archeology	Sacramental Presence	Collegiality
Communication of Properties	Requiescat in Pace	Delilah
Inscriptions	Satisfaction	Jeconias
Arian Churches	Jurisdiction	Hagiology
Passion Plays

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