A couple of years ago it occured to me that we spend a lot of time in church talking about what practices to take on for Lent, but when Easter comes, the glorious season of resurrection, we slip back into our ordinary lives. Hopefully we arrive transformed by our Lenten journey, but the season of Easter [...]
Archive for April, 2007
The Space Between
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I love the wide space of Holy Saturday. Lingering between the suffering and death of Jesus on Friday and the vigil Saturday night proclaiming the return of the Easter fire. For me Holy Saturday evokes much about the human condition. The ways in which we are called to let go of things or people, identities or securities and [...]
Way of the Cross (Good Friday Part 2)
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Salvator Mundi: Via Crucis Maybe He looked indeed Much as Rembrandt envisioned Him in those small heads that seem in fact portraits of more than a model. A dark, still young, very intelligent face, a soul-mirror gaze of deep understanding, unjudging. That face, in extremis, would have clenched its teeth in a grimace not shown [...]
Good Friday
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Please visit this abridged version of Peace Stations of the Cross written by Megan McKenna which I found especially beautiful and moving. Peace to you this day as we enter into the fullness of death.
Holy Thursday
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Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, Please come to the gate immediately. Well — one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there. An older woman in full [...]
What Keeps You From Being Fully Free?
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Passover Then you shall take some of the blood, and put it on the door posts and the lintels of the houses . . . and when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. -Exodus 12:7 [...]
Holy Week
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In Christian tradition, we entered into Holy Week yesterday. Holy Week leads up to the Triduum, which is the highlight of the Christian year. As a part of my prayer and meditation this week I am reading The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem by Marcus Borg and [...]
