{"id":1314,"date":"2015-04-10T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:30","slug":"april-10-passover-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/04\/10\/april-10-passover-week\/","title":{"rendered":"April 10 – Passover week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday April 10 – \u201c . . .\u00a0only the terrible blessing\u00a0of the journey.”<\/p>\n

Catherine McAuley and Ignatius Loyola both took the journey seriously. \u00a0Perhaps more than seriously, . . . \u00a0as sacred and central. \u00a0 \u201cThe journey makes the world our house,\u201d wrote Ieronimo Nadal, sj, sent by Ignatius to mentor just-born little communities of the just-born Jesuit order. \u00a0Catherine trekked the wretched roads of Ireland finding, and founding, houses of Mercy.<\/p>\n

Lynn Ungar writes about an older, deep understanding. \u00a0The journey of Passover, like that of UDM\u2019s two founding spirits, trumps the safe and static. \u00a0At our best, we teach our students to love risks, to imagine the dangers of surprises, to exult in challenges. \u00a0 This is the end of Passover Week and we are rounding the last bend into final exams at the university. \u00a0Both make a good time to remember the deep human longing to be disturbed by grace.<\/p>\n

Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Lynn Ungar: “Passover”<\/a><\/h2>\n

Posted by Phyllis Cole-Dai on Apr 03, 2015 12:00 am<\/em><\/p>\n

\"desert-sky\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then you shall take some of the blood, and put it on the door posts and the lintels of the houses . . . and when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and no plague shall fall\u00a0upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Exodus 12:7 & 13<\/em><\/p>\n

They thought they were safe
\nthat spring night, when they daubed
\nthe doorways with sacrificial blood.
\nTo be sure, the angel of death
\npassed them over, but for what?
\nForty years in the desert
\nwithout a home, without a bed,
\nfollowing new laws to an unknown land.
\nEasier to have died in Egypt
\nor stayed there a slave, pretending
\nthere was safety in the old familiar.<\/p>\n

But the promise, from those first
\nnaked days outside the garden,
\nis that there is no safety,
\nonly the terrible blessing
\nof the journey. You were born
\nthrough a doorway marked in blood.
\nWe are, all of us, passed over,
\nbrushed in the night by terrible wings.<\/p>\n

Ask that fierce presence,
\nwhose imagination you hold.
\nGod did not promise that we shall live,
\nbut that we might, at last, glimpse the stars,
\nbrilliant in the desert sky.<\/p>\n

 
\n\"Lynn-Ungar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Passover” by\u00a0Lynn Ungar.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Text as published in\u00a0What We Share: Collected Meditations, Volume Two,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>edited by Patricia Frevert (Skinner House, 2001).<\/p>\n

Art credit:<\/em>\u00a0“Stars over the Negev Desert,”\u00a0photograph<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0taken on June 7, 2007, by\u00a0Matt O.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0From the caption:<\/em>\u00a0“much better in person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday April 10 – \u201c . . .\u00a0only the terrible blessing\u00a0of the journey.” Catherine McAuley and Ignatius Loyola both took the journey seriously. \u00a0Perhaps more than seriously, . . . \u00a0as sacred and central. \u00a0 \u201cThe journey makes the world … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}