by Lynn Jericho | Mar 30, 2013 | Inner Festivals |
I wish I could say I have a glimmer of understanding or feeling of resurrection. I have a belief in the Resurrection, but not an experience of it. Perhaps that is why we retell the story of Easter every year. Would we need to tell it, if we had the inner deed alive in...
by Lynn Jericho | Mar 29, 2013 | Inner Festivals |
Welcome to Hades, to Hell, to the Burning, Isolating Sea of No Redemption. Is this a familiar place for you? It is for me, especially in the middle of a sleepless night. The Entombment How do you inwardly bury yourself or parts of yourself? Just choose one of your...
by Lynn Jericho | Mar 28, 2013 | Inner Festivals |
I tremble at the realization that as I write these four Inner Easter posts, I am asking each of us to find our solitary way into a consciousness of unbearable feeling — even the joy of resurrection, if truly felt, is too intense for full consciousness. I am not...
by Lynn Jericho | Mar 27, 2013 | Inner Festivals, Understanding Your Soul |
I find the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday the most complex, multi-layered, almost incomprehensible of Holy Days in the Christian Year. It overwhelms me as I experience myself within the Easter context. Last year I committed to...
by Lynn Jericho | Mar 25, 2013 | Inner Festivals, Sense of Self, Understanding Your Soul |
I am writing this post on the Christian Feast of Annunciation celebrating the moment the Archangel Gabriel told the young Mary she was favored by God and would bear his son, Jesus, who was to be the Savior of the world. Whether you hold this as doctrine, fiction, or...