Not exact matches
clumsily inserted into the Mary Magdalene story» probably
out of «a desire to make the apostles as well as a woman witness
of the empty
tomb».35 But the emphasis is now no longer on the emptiness
of the
tomb but on the
way the linen cloths have been left lying.
Furthermore, the assertion that the women only realized when they were already on the
way that they would need help to roll away the stone and gain access to the
tomb implies a degree
of thoughtlessness quite
out of the ordinary.
As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only
way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched -
out day
of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak
of wonder, color and
tomb - bursting newborn life.
On the
way out of town, we stopped at St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery No. 1 in Uptown, where my mother's family
tomb is located.
In a
way Almereyda's film, shot prior to most
of the tech stocks going belly - up, anticipates the downswing: Its Wall Street is ghostly and devastated, full
of glass
tombs that scrape a dismal sky and inhabited by, among other Gloomy Guses, a Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) who's hollowed -
out like so many victims
of modern materialism and parental loss.