Given the right kind of conditions, it is possible to enter Holy Week from the inside rather than the outside – not as a series of commemorative events surrounding the final days of Jesus’ earthly life, but as a way of actually accompanying Jesus on His timeless passage through death to the very source of life and back into this world, with the unshakable certainty that “nothing can separate us from the love of God.”
It is a passage, as Christian mystics from time immemorial have proclaimed, that changed the very foundations of this world. And it is a passage that we ourselves will personally make, carriedon the wings of this one Great Passage, when our own human lives have reached their fullness of time.
-Cynthia Bourgeault
Si se dan las condiciones adecuadas, es posible entrar en la Semana Santa desde dentro y no desde fuera: no como una serie de actos conmemorativos en torno a los últimos días de la vida terrena de Jesús, sino como una forma de acompañar realmente a Jesús en su paso intemporal a través de la muerte hasta la fuente misma de la vida y de vuelta a este mundo, con la certeza inquebrantable de que “nada puede separarnos del amor de Dios”.
Es un paso, como han proclamado los místicos cristianos desde tiempos inmemoriales, que cambió los cimientos mismos de este mundo. Y es un paso que nosotros mismos daremos personalmente, llevados por las alas de este Gran Paso, cuando nuestras propias vidas humanas hayan llegado a su plenitud.
-Cynthia Bourgeault
In a world marked by growing conflict, suffering, and uncertainty, the WCC reaffirms its calling as a fellowship of churches to stand together in prayer for peace.
This year’s open letter asks political leaders to close coal-related loopholes and uphold meaningful climate action. Many of you are already familiar with the campaign, and we’d love to help bump the numbers—so we invite you to sign the letter as individuals to add your voice to this growing call.
In early 1863 Sister M. Xavier Bernard, who had succeeded Sister M. Francis Creedon as superior of Mercy Convent, received a request from the parish priest of Burin for sisters for his parish. Father Michael Berney, the zealous Irish priest who had established St. Patrick’s Parish in Burin in 1833, was anxious to ensure a solid education for the children of Burin. Sister M. Francis Xavier Bernard was open to his proposal but was keenly aware of the shortage of sisters at Mercy Convent due to two recent foundations – St. Michael’s Belvedere in 1859 and Brigus in 1861. However, Father Berney’s persistent entreaties led to a positive response and on March 19,1863 Mary Ann Tarahan was accepted as a postulant for the Burin mission.
The organization, which brings together nearly 600,000 sisters worldwide, has convened an international moment of prayer for Friday, March 6, at 11:00 am (Newfoundland time), to be