As I sat in the stone church for the various liturgies during the three-day-long Triduum, I thought, "I am in the marrow of reality." The Triduum, stretching from Holy Thursday through the Saturday night Easter Vigil, is the intersection of human, earthly life with heaven. God's reality meets humanity in a comprehensive, all-encompassing way in these moments. Every year, it happens again and again--it is the most profound human experience I have had, along with the birth of a child, the death of a parent, a wedding day. It is what prepares me for my own death, and simultaneously brings me to life.
By Easter Morning this year, I was in tears, sitting in the front row since the girls wanted to sit up close. The reading of the Gospel was so profound, I felt like I was more myself than I had ever been, and like I was more ephemeral than I had ever been. What really matters is life, life that triumphs. Here we are celebrating that. My soul feels it in a guttural, instinctual way. And so I spend the next days and weeks eating chocolate, feasting and relaxing. God's comeback is worthy of leaning into and living out.
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