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p/c Chris Blair via unspalsh
My family is doing a read-aloud through C.S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader right now. We just completed the chapter in which Lucy enters the library of the magician Coriakin and reads through a portion of his book of spells.
The book is wondrous, it is alive. As one reads new words appear, the illustrations begin to move, smells and sounds begin to pour-forth from the pages… the book, in other words, comes alive…
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So also this week when you hear it said “let us remember,” as you most certainly will hear it said often during these holy days, it means more than merely “replaying” the story of Jesus in your mind or on the stage at church. It means being drawn into the covenant enacted by the story. The Gospel of Jesus, Holy Week, is a living thing. It incorporates our stories into itself. It saves us. It heals us. In it the Spirit renews us. By it the Kingdom is re-kneaded into the dough of the world (cf. Matt. 13:33).
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