{"id":6495,"date":"2016-06-24T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:45:23","slug":"orlando-faces-in-the-sanctuary-sacred-wounds-and-the-communal-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2016\/06\/24\/orlando-faces-in-the-sanctuary-sacred-wounds-and-the-communal-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando faces in the sanctuary: Sacred wounds and the communal body"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week at Sunday Mass I had a full-body prayer experience that transcended the ordinary.<\/p>\n

I am Catholic. Full-body prayer is nothing unusual; it’s basic Catholic functioning. Stand, sing, sit, listen, sing, listen, speak, kneel, stand, shake hands, sing, walk, eat, drink, kneel, sit and stand. Through the rhythm of movements, our hands, feet, mouths and throats embody the mysteries of our Incarnational faith. Even as we sing, speak and breathe, the core of our bodies vibrate with words of love and hope.<\/p>\n

This past Sunday, though, my body tuned into a communal woundedness. It was as if, in a way, I could feel in my bones an echo of the laceration that had been inflicted upon my brothers and sisters during the massacre in Orlando a week prior.<\/p>\n

Certainly the mass shooting that occurred at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12 was a complex atrocity. The narratives of our nation’s political battles are…<\/p>\n

[This is the beginning of my latest column for the online newspaper,\u00a0<\/em>Global Sisters Report.<\/a>\u00a0Continue reading\u00a0here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Orlando faces in the sanctuary: Sacred wounds and the communal body<\/a><\/blockquote>