{"id":1792,"date":"2016-03-21T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:52","slug":"march-21-holy-week-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/03\/21\/march-21-holy-week-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"March 21 &#8211; Holy Week 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 21- \u00a0&#8220;some momentary awareness comes \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0As an unexpected visitor.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For people who live the Catholic faith tradition, Holy Week can take a lot of living up to. \u00a0Such depths of intimate closeness, in Jesus human and divine, to the violence and loss that works in the world week after week, all year long, but, in this week, held up to invite close attention. \u00a0I incline to treat the impulse for \u201cliving up to\u201d this week as a distraction. \u00a0Better, perhaps, to let the texts and music of these seven days knock on the door of my awareness now and then, surprising me in the middle of plans and deadlines and the joys of kinship that make up a lot of daily life. \u00a0And remind me that beneath the ordinary live great depths that open me to stark and delicate graces.<\/p>\n<p>Rumi\u2019s poem, \u201cThe Guest House,\u201d explores this mystery of living a reality both ordinary and vast. \u00a0 \u00a0Best to read the poem out loud.\u00a0 From a person still growing in this faith tradition, still learning to allow what runs deep to mingle with what hustles along on ordinary daily paths . . . \u00a0have a blest week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe Guest House\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This being human is a guest house.<br \/>\nEvery morning a new arrival.<\/p>\n<p>A joy, a depression, a meanness,<br \/>\nsome momentary awareness comes<br \/>\nAs an unexpected visitor.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome and entertain them all!<br \/>\nEven if they\u2019re a crowd of sorrows,<br \/>\nwho violently sweep your house<br \/>\nempty of its furniture,<br \/>\nstill treat each guest honorably.<br \/>\nHe may be clearing you out<br \/>\nfor some new delight.<\/p>\n<p>The dark thought, the shame, the malice,<br \/>\nmeet them at the door laughing,<br \/>\nand invite them in.<\/p>\n<p>Be grateful for whoever comes,<br \/>\nbecause each has been sent<br \/>\nas a guide from beyond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/Rumi.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1156\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1156 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/Rumi.jpg\" alt=\"Rumi\" width=\"138\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jal\u0101l ad-D\u012bn Muhammad R\u016bm\u012b\u00a0\u00a0(\u062c\u0644\u0627\u0644\u200c\u0627\u0644\u062f\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0631\u0648\u0645\u06cc\u200e)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persian_people\">Persian<\/a>\u00a0poet, jurist,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulama\">Islamic scholar<\/a>, theologian, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sufism\">Sufi<\/a>\u00a0mystic\u00a01207-1273<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 21- \u00a0&#8220;some momentary awareness comes \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0As an unexpected visitor.&#8221; For people who live the Catholic faith tradition, Holy Week can take a lot of living up to. \u00a0Such depths of intimate closeness, in Jesus human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/03\/21\/march-21-holy-week-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/1792"}],"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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}