Tuesday, April 12th
“The events of Holy Week should not be reduced to a re-enacted drama but must be embraced as our deepest reality. Each of us is called to undergo death if we seek the fullness of life. The death we are called to endure is the death to separation [or the separated self] and toward wholeness. If we truly desire unitive love with God, then we must accept our darkness and what lies there as part of our journey. This is the Christ story in each of us.”
—Ilia Delio, “Pain and New Creation”
“Los oficios de la Semana Santa no deberían reducirse a la recreación de un drama, sino que deben ser asumidos como nuestra realidad más profunda. Todos nosotros estamos llamados a experimentar la muerte si buscamos la plenitud de la vida. La muerte que estamos llamados a soportar es la muerte de la separación [la del yo separado] para ir a hacia la totalidad. Si verdaderamente deseamos un amor unitivo con Dios, tenemos que aceptar nuestra oscuridad y todo lo que yace en ella como una parte de nuestro viaje. Esa es la historia de Cristo en cada uno de nosotros.”
—Ilia Delio, “Pain and New Creation”
Incarnational Practice: Resting
As we enter this Holy Week let us rest in those words as we would in Lectio Divina and discover how and where God is reaching out to us. May we have the courage to also say “into your hands I commend my spirit”.
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What is being revealed? What is being moved? What is being asked?
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