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Looking for Someone to Resurrect
I called through your door, “The mystics are gathering in the street. Come out!” “Leave me alone. I’m sick.” “I don’t care if you’re dead! Jesus is here, and he wants to resurrect somebody!” — Rumi
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The Virgin Mary, A Letter Sent by the Father
Mary appeared to us as a sealed letter, in which were hidden the mysteries of the Son and his depth. She gave her body as a clean sheet; the Word wrote his essence on it, corporeally. The Son is the Word and she is the letter, as we said, by which forgiveness was sent forth…
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Do I Understand Holy Week?
As I reflect on this past Holy Week and our Easter celebration I keep returning to the question, “Do I understand Holy Week?” The short answer, and perhaps the most honest, is no, not really. I know the story. I even preach the story. I can describe the events of Holy Week but there is…
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Reflects on Easter
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Holy Saturday – Tomb Work
Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world…
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A Good Friday Reflection
“We glory in your cross, O Lord, and praise and glorify your holy resurrection; for by virtue of your cross joy has come to the whole world. May God be merciful to us and bless us, show us the light of his countenance, and come to us. Let your ways be known upon earth,your saving…
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The Crucifixion by St. John of the Cross
This drawing was made by St. John of the Cross, probably between 1574 and 1577. He was praying in a loft overlooking the sanctuary at the Monastery of the Incarnation in Avila, Spain. He received a vision and then sketched what he had beheld. One wonders if this might be the Father’s view of the…
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Growing in Prayer: The Holy Week Lectures of the Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has offered three Holy Week lectures on Growing in Prayer as follows: Lecture 1: The Early Church Lecture 2: Reformers, Catholic and Protestant; and Lecture 3: The Quest for God in the Modern Age. All three lectures are available on the Archbishop’s website.
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Interrupting the Silence 