At the very end of the episode, when Murdocca sister asks him to go pray with her, they walk to the front of the church. However, if this is turn-of-the-century, there would not be an alter facing the people! That was a recent development in the 1960s from Vatican II! But I still love the show
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So many details off
mommiracles21 April 2024
I love the series. But this episode has so many wonky details surrounding Catholic practice and religious life that it is evident the producers didn't run it by a practicing Catholic for basic accuracy checks. For example, Sisters processing to bury one of their own would not being singing Ave Verum Corpus, a hymn for Corpus Christi. And to say a priest only ever came to the convent for confession and Vespers? How about Mass? Vespers would normally be prayed by Sisters alone. Yes, I know it's only a TV show, and I'm sure there are lots of scientific details that are wonky also, but I also think someone researches those details for at least a couple of minutes.
special
Kirpianuscus27 December 2019
An episode like a large embroidery. And a delicate theme. But, more important remains the meet of Murdoch with his sister after too many years. And , after its end, not the murder, the liaisons between characters or the dark secrets are significant but the confession of the mother Sussanah to her brother and the invitation to pray together. An intense episode because it gives new dimension, a dramatic one, to the portrait of the lead character of the serie and, in same measure, it propose a special exploration of an obscure universe, in which the duty is in clash with the faith. So, a special, for obvious reasons, episode, touching and well crafted.
Murdoch meets his sister who is a nun
ctyankee17 April 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Murdoch's sister is in Toronto and is the head of a group of nuns. Susannah is her name and she looks very similar to Dr Julia Ogden and just as young. They have not seen each-other since she was twelve when she joined the nuns. It appears they were raised by and aunt.
A burial is about to take place on the property of the church and as the nuns look into the grave a man's arm is out of the dirt.
Dr Odgen examines the man and how he dies. He has a head injury but he was buried alive. This episode is very confusing. Two or three of the nuns say the man attacked them and they all confessed to killing the man or helping kill the man. One nun and two "priest" knew each other years ago.
As an aside all the nuns habits are not on properly and hang too lose around their face.
There is also a nun who hears voices and she thinks they are from a saint. It is later explained that she was hearing people talk outside her room where a pipe was connected and she could over hear people planning and talking in the garden.
So much for messages from God. Not all unexplained messages people get are from God that is why people involved in spiritualism and new age cults get fooled.
Later it is found that the priest that was there and the dead man in the grave knew each other. The man in the grave is thought to be a priest but he was there as an impostor.
The crime is solved and Murdoch wants to get to know his sister after not seeing her for many years. She tells him she loves him but is going back to where she was that God is calling her. She also tells him she does not have long to live. It is a very sad and tender ending.
A burial is about to take place on the property of the church and as the nuns look into the grave a man's arm is out of the dirt.
Dr Odgen examines the man and how he dies. He has a head injury but he was buried alive. This episode is very confusing. Two or three of the nuns say the man attacked them and they all confessed to killing the man or helping kill the man. One nun and two "priest" knew each other years ago.
As an aside all the nuns habits are not on properly and hang too lose around their face.
There is also a nun who hears voices and she thinks they are from a saint. It is later explained that she was hearing people talk outside her room where a pipe was connected and she could over hear people planning and talking in the garden.
So much for messages from God. Not all unexplained messages people get are from God that is why people involved in spiritualism and new age cults get fooled.
Later it is found that the priest that was there and the dead man in the grave knew each other. The man in the grave is thought to be a priest but he was there as an impostor.
The crime is solved and Murdoch wants to get to know his sister after not seeing her for many years. She tells him she loves him but is going back to where she was that God is calling her. She also tells him she does not have long to live. It is a very sad and tender ending.
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