Friends, by the time you read this the Easter vigil will have passed and you will be on the other side of the Triduum, basking in the light of the resurrected Christ. May I wish you a very blessed and happy Eastertide, sweetness and light, good health and happiness to all who you love and care about. I am afraid that this is going to be a shortish post because I’m banging it out on Maundy Thursday afternoon in the midst of a push to get all my admin done prior to the Triduum and my taking a few days off next week.
I am convinced that I do Lent badly and next year I am resolved to produce some kind of plan that will help me to focus my disciplines and meditation in a better way. This Holy Week simply convinces me of my poor approach. I end up feeling stressed and dissatisfied with the amount of effort that I put in, and I’m certain that this cannot be the point: Lent was made for man, not man for Lent, as somebody almost said once.
But the joy of Easter cannot be suppressed, and I await the happy day with a sense of anticipation and hope. That day when the risen Christ will once again stand amongst us, showing us his wounded hand and side and speaking the precious words, “Peace be with you”. I will finish in a moment with a quotation by one of my favourite writers David Bentley Hart, but, before I do, may I say once again a huge thank you to you for supporting the Good Things blog. I’m sure that there are exciting times ahead and I’m pleased to have you all along for the ride with me. And, with that said, please enjoy my Eastertide commonplace quotation.
Commonplace Quotation - David Bentley Hart, “The Beauty of the Infinite”
The resurrection of Christ is now an insuperable obstacle within the fabric of history that tragic wisdom cannot overvault, a concrete, aesthetic scandal whose irreducible sign is an empty tomb, which now marks a boundary beyond which God has passed in Christ without allowing the beauty of his gift to be consumed…every speculative, tragic, abstract, or sacrificial appropriation of death, as an occasion or horizon of meaning…has been surpassed by an infinite gesture, by the disorientating rhetoric of the empty tomb, by the radiance of the resurrection, and by the palpable wounds of the crucified.
Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti! Alleluia!
Happy Easter! Enjoy His blessings as you take some much earned rest.