St. Patrick's new virtual candles light up Cathedral website
Clicking your prayers is old news but now you can click your virtual candle (and make a "suggested" $5 donation) to St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, too.
The grand Fifth Avenue cathedral, which draws 5 million visitors annually, ignited the digital service today to tout its revised website and make the candle-lighting practice available online everywhere.
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan lit a for-real six-foot candle that's intended to stand in for the virtual ones. Then, taking a cue from Pope Benedict XVI tapping out a tweet, he lit a virtual one as well. The candles -- in any form -- represent the Biblical teaching that Christ is "the light of the world," according to the Archdiocese.
The idea's not original to NYC. In April 2010, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral launched their digital candelabra .
A website devoted to the medieval Cathedral says it was once one of the three most important pilgrimage destinations in the world after Jerusalem and Rome. According to Time ... computer screen mounted on a metal stand decorated with the Cross of St. James, allows the faithful to remotely light a virtual candle to a favorite saint through the website MiVela.com (translation: MyCandle). Simply click on the church and icon you want, type in your credit card or PayPal information. Each each candle costs about $2 and in a dark corner of a faraway church, an onscreen candle "lights." The candles can also be lit via text message.
Of course, YOU would never think of lighting a candle in person without making some donation, would you?
DO YOU make virtual visits to churches? Is it for prayer, worship or another religious purpose or to tour the history, art and architecture?
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Remembering Our Loved Ones on Sunday, November 7, 2010
As I reflect today on this feast of our Communion of Saints, I am reminded of Anna Quindlen’s words, “We are defined by whom we have lost.” As we gather to remember all the loved ones who have died, these words can almost become a prayer: we are defined by whom we have lost. As we break down the theme of Life Without Borders this year, I cannot help but think of the border of loneliness that often occurs at times of loss in our lives. Today is a day that respects our love for those who have died, the grief of losing someone close to us, or perhaps the loss in our world due to hunger, poverty, violence and war.
Those we have loved and lost, have contributed to who we are.
And so, who are we? How can we allow the memories and the gratitude for their lives to shape us? Maybe that is the privilege, the blessing of those who have embraced loss: loss reminds us we cannot live as though we have all the time in the world. We cannot let words go unspoken, or gestures of love go undone. Like the disciples, we realize we cannot wear grief like a badge that exempts us from living. No, our grief gently, but firmly, calls us to live and to love as Jesus loved.
These words of Jesus lie at the heart of our lives as God’s beloved children — this act of remembrance. Recalling and reliving this sacred moment, and cherishing what it means. Today, as we remember the gift Jesus shares with us in the Eucharist, let us pause, and think about those beautiful loved ones, those lights that have shaped us, and now have gone home. And let us take a deep breath, and continue our lives, knowing that Jesus, who guided them home, will one day safely guide us home too. May God’s mercy heal us. May God’s love set us free from the Borders that keep us from loving as Jesus loved.
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