Stay here and keep watch with me
I pray for my brothers and sisters out there in prayer--those who celebrate Passover, those starting the Holy Triduum today, and a host of others who cannot celebrate their holy days because of this virus, a human frailty, one which we cannot escape. I share with you my feeling this morning of Holy Thursday that Jesus' words to his friends "Stay here and keep watch with me" mean something quite different now, and will never quite be the same from this point forward. I share this in light of the fact that in 2014, I miscarried during Good Friday, and that experience has never left me the same: the pain I felt as I kept watch was a sharing in suffering, but it was also my suffering. I felt the story I'd only until then celebrated cerebrally or spiritually--I'd felt it in my body. When all three elements of my existence came together, I saw in a whole new way what it means to su...