In the winter, when I go into the bathroom, I am covered with rainbows. On the wall of our upstairs bathroom hangs a mirrored and faceted cross, a gift from John and Linda, my brother and sister-in-law. Now before you tell me that the bathroom is a strange place to hang the cross, I want [...]
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Risen as Crucified
Posted in Cross, Death, Easter, Resurrection on Apr 4th, 2008
After the Resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples with his wounds, not with his body miraculously restored, as if he had never been wounded (which of course is the way we would usually like our own wounds to be healed – in such a way that we have no bodily or spiritual scars).
I would like [...]
I have just ordered a copy of Gerald Vann’s The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God, a small spiritual classic published in 1947; but Amazon.com can’t promise delivery for another month or month and a half. I am eager to get hold of this little book because of a sentence that has stayed [...]
I returned from a retreat in Pensacola a few days before Christmas and opened my e-mail to find the gift of a poem sent by our Sister Margaret Byrne. The poem is “Messenger,”* by Mary Oliver. “My work,” she begins, “is loving the world”:
Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep [...]
The Shadow of the Cross – The Shadow of Thy Wings
Posted in Cross on Apr 14th, 2006
Shade is treasured in the sunshine state. When Sister Elizabeth, a New Yorker, moved to Gainesville, she was worried about the branches of large trees hanging over our roof.
“Trees are hanging [...]