Holy Week - Season of Dying: Seasons of Grace, #4
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Death is the one constant in this life. Wherever we are in our life journey, we are all moving towards our death. It is inevitable, yet we resist, ignore and deny this reality. Our lives are all that much richer from knowing they will end someday. Through confronting death, we learn how to live.
The Catholic-Christian readings and liturgies of Holy Week offer an abundance of opportunities for spiritual growth. Walk with Jesus and the Christian community through Jesus' final day on this earth. Reflect with Christians throughout the world on the meaning of those final days. Find comfort and strength from the example of Jesus as he faced his death.
Book four of the Season of Grace Series, Holy Week - Season of Dying will help you in your own journey through life to death to new life. The simple vignettes based on common life experiences will help you when confronting loss, betrayal, and death.
Read the meditations all at once or day by day. Each meditation can be a self-contained moment of encouragement or a springboard to a longer period of prayer and reflection.
If we die with Christ, we shall rise with Christ. Holy Week - Season of Dying will help you on that journey.
Patricia M. Robertson, D.Min., is an author, speaker and spiritual director, who is committed to helping individuals find God in their every day experience. Married, mother and minister, she writes for and about ordinary people living extraordinary lives just by being the person they are meant to be with all their human failings and foibles.
Robertson has a Doctor of Ministry and over thirty five years of ministry experience. She has walked alongside families through significant life events, from the cradle to the tomb. She continues to offer words of hope to those who have given up on their dreams or misplaced them.
Patricia M. Robertson
Patricia M. Robertson is the author of fiction and non-fiction books as well as numerous articles all related to spirituality of the everyday. In her thirty-five years of ministry she has walked alongside many families amidst the crises that are part of life, helping them to regain their balance. She currently resides in Jackson, Michigan where she continues to unlock the extraordinary out of the ordinary..
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Holy Week - Season of Dying - Patricia M. Robertson
HOLY WEEK
Season of Dying
Patricia M. Robertson
© 2018 Patricia M. Robertson
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All Scripture quotes are from NRSV unless otherwise noted.
HOLY WEEK - SEASON OF DYING
Introduction
I’ve long had a love-hate relationship with Holy Week. The richness of the liturgies in my Catholic faith tradition, the readings, the drama, the opportunity to stop what we are doing, put ordinary life on hold, in order to reflect more fully on the great mysteries of our faith–I love this. The work of making this happen liturgically, all of the details and special preparation I both loved and hated as it was a tremendous drain not only on my physical energy, but spiritual energy. How hard to live with those readings from Scripture, to live through that final week in Jesus’ life, through his death, over and over again. There is a richness that is inspiring, yet exhausting.
Aren’t moments of passion, high intensity, like this? Even amidst the sorrow of death there is an opportunity for bonding as a community. There is the telling of stories and sharing of laughter even as we grieve. It is a gift to us during times of trial, a gift and blessing that carries us through these times. Also a source of memories.
The death of a loved one becomes the family reunion, when members gather from near and far to remember. Holy Week is a great family reunion for the Catholic church. A chance for us to gather in the parish church and diocesan church, at the cathedral; a chance to gather as a world church in the one celebration of Holy Thursday and Good Friday