Gathered Wisdom is taking a Holy Week break. We pray for you a blessed Holy Week and joyous Easter.
I won’t leave you like orphans. I will come back to you. In a little while the people of this world won’t be able to see me, but you will see me. And because I live, you will live. Then you will know I am one with the Father. You will know you are one with me, and I am one with you (John 14:18-20 CEV).
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This issue of Gathered Wisdom is devoted to Holy Week – for Christians the holiest week of the year culminating in the glorious Day of Resurrection, Easter.
GW will take an Easter break next week and return on April 18.
Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility: for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger’s act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.
“Unless we walk through the darkness of Holy Week and Good Friday, unless we recognize the horror of sin and its consequence of Jesus dying on the cross, unless we experience the despair the disciples felt on Holy Saturday, we can’t fully understand the light and hope of Sunday morning.” – Kathleen Stephens
The days of Holy Week are “pregnant with the immanence of God,” says The Rev. Dr. Paul Hooker of Austin Presbyterian Seminary. In this online booklet, prayers, poems, and meditations draw us in to connect with God’s closeness in Holy Week.
The earth was dark twice, says Fr. Ron Rolheiser. Once at the original creation and again on Good Friday afternoon. In the second, “God created the most staggering light of all – the resurrection.”
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