The Art of Disappearing
Tomorrow I head off to the Spiritual Directors International Conference being held this year in Vancouver, BC. I am especially looking forward to my workshops on First Nations cosmology and one on animal companionship and spirituality. When I return Sunday I have two projects I really need to focus some time and energy on, so I […]
Practicing Resurrection
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 […]
The Space Between
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 […]
Good Friday
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
I was praying this morning about Holy Thurday, about what it means to me that Jesus took bread and broke it, and shared it with his friends. He said this is my body. He poured the wine and said this is my blood. These words have rippled through time and woven us together in a common narrative. I […]
What Keeps You From Being Fully Free?
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
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 […]