For many of us, it feels like the celebration of Our Lord’s resurrection is a distant memory from years past. This weekend just wasn’t the same: it can’t compare to gathering in a packed church, singing hymns, hearing and proclaiming the Word, consecrating and partaking of the Sacrament.

And yet, celebrate we can, because Christ’s rising from the dead is truer than a pandemic, and truer than our isolation. The risen Jesus makes room for our feelings of disorientation and disconnection within His eternal, glorified life.

And so the Monastery that is the Church moves with the patterns of this eternal life, in time with the flow of Christ’s story, even with one eye on the trends and patterns of death and disease in our own cities and communities. The People of God continue to gather and pray, but we’ve moved primarily into digital spaces. We continue to share our lives, invite others into our lives, and hopefully make good on the opportunity to reflect on what is and isn’t meaningful for our human, creaturely existence.

Even in a time of pandemic and physical distancing, we can still journey with Jesus, who carries us “out of error into truth, out of sin into righteousness, out of death into life.”

Alleluia, Christ is risen.
The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia.

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