[Propertalk] 7 Easter

[Ann Fontaine]

 From Edge of Enclosure-- more at web site

http://edgeofenclosure.org/easter7c.html

About This Week's Prompts for Personal Meditation

I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the  
love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them. John  
17:26

The 7th Sunday of Easter is the imposed pause, the anticipation of the  
promise, the flash of insight before the work of Pentecost begins. The  
church, not quite ready to be church, is asked to go deeper into love  
these ten days of Ascensiontide. We're asked to practice loving in  
dark faith, without the bodily presence of the Resurrected Christ.

Like Mary Magdalene on the first day of the week, we go to the empty  
place expecting nothing but find everything. Like the Dark Night of  
the Soul, we ache for our loss only to experience love's consummation.  
We grope our way "with no other light than the one burning in my  
heart" toward that open, sunlit field "leaving my cares forgotten  
among the lilies" in union with God (John of the Cross). Easter is the  
wedding feast, and Ascension the nuptial chamber.

In Ascensiontide we're called in dark faith to a deeper conversion, to  
our vocation to holiness (meditation one). We ask to be "fit for  
love" (meditation two), that dangerous call to the universal love  
conferred to us in Pentecost (meditation three). Our union with God  
impels and strengthens us to love. "I am the one who makes you to  
love; I am the one who makes you to long; I am the one, the endless  
fulfilling of all true desires." Julian of Norwich.

May God make us all fit for love. Amen. -Suzanne



The Rev. Ann Fontaine
Lander, Wyoming