Cenacle Journal
Posted in Death, Easter, Resurrection on Apr 11th, 2009
When this perishable body puts on imperishability,
and this mortal body puts on immortality,
then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:
‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’
‘Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?’
The sting of death is sin,
and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives [...]
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 [...]
Although the first of November is the feast of All Saints, followed by All Souls on November 2, the whole month of November is traditionally a time for special remembrance of our loved ones who have died. With this in mind, I have been reflecting on an experience of Saint Therese Couderc — the [...]
I thought that I had accepted the realities of life. I was startled, therefore, in church a few Sundays ago, to find myself engulfed with anger because of the human condition. To be precise, I was sad because of the illness of a loved one, and angry because we all suffer and age and die. [...]
Posted in Comfort, Darkness, Death, Suffering on Feb 20th, 2005
Years ago, “in between church jobs”, as she puts it, Sister Elizabeth was working as a nurse in a chronic diseases hospital in Massachusetts. One of the patients she was caring for was a man who had on his back a sore that went all the way to the bone and from which he was [...]
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