“When they heard this they were cut to the heart.” This morning’s New York Times magazine had me in tears. Ten years ago I spent just three months in Guyana, South America, from New Year to Holy Week. A country so poor its coinage had no value outside its borders and precious little within them. …
Monthly Archives: April 1999
Friday Week 3 of Easter (St George)
George was a martyr. He faced terrible torture for years without giving in to his torturers. He lived with valour and died nobly. But of course that’s not why we remember him. We remember him because he killed that dragon. It’s the one thing everyone knows about St. George. And he didn’t just kill the …
Sunday Week 2 of Easter Year A
“You have never seen him, yet you love him, and without seeing you believe in him, and rejoice with inexpressible joy touched with glory.” Well, do you? … Do I? “You have never seen him, yet you love him, and without seeing you believe in him, and rejoice with inexpressible joy touched with glory.” That’s …
Easter Sunday Year A
“Christ is Risen!” … “Christ is Risen Indeed!” But what if he weren’t risen? Or what if he were risen from the dead and we never got to know about it? You see so much hangs on the events we hear about this morning. What if Mary Magdalene hadn’t been so grief- stricken, or hadn’t …