She Rises!

Easter is not a day, it’s a season, a way of being, part of the rhythms of all life, held in the Mother of All Life.  So often, in Christian contexts, we hear “He is Risen!” and that’s it– the joy and the celebration can feel short-lived, anticlimactic even.  But… 

What does it really mean to be Easter people, people of resurrection? 

What is all this talk of rising, and how do we not just believe it, but embody it, as human beings tethered to this earth? 

How do we live in the constant cycles and rhythms of renewal of life from death?  

This mystery of Resurrection central to Christianity has much more ancient roots– it is at the heart of Goddess Herself and the ways the Goddess was understood and worshipped long before Christianity.  The rhythms of resurrection are what any people deeply connected to the land and cycles of nature know in their bones– life does not come except through death.  What dies, will rise– in new life.  

In this third part of our retreat series, we’ll explore resurrection through the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary, walking alongside Mother Mary.  We’ll unfold with the Easter season– not a one-day celebration, but as it must have been for the early disciples of Jesus– slowly and with wonderment.  They experienced the trauma of Jesus’ horrific and unjust death, and then they encountered his inexplicable presence– touching the wounds, eating fish, reminding them again and again that He was still, somehow, with them.  Through all of this liminal, through-the-veils time, Mother Mary was there, fully present and reminding everyone of the very Big Love holding it all.  

How do you walk in the liminal spaces, in the inexplicable? 

How do you dance in the here- but-not-yet, in the both-and of human and divine, earth and heaven, body and soul? 

How might we all live resurrection in our bones?  

Join us, to walk together, to wonder together and to weave these mysteries in tangible ways into our lives.