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A lily among thorns

July 28, 2025 Mark Brians

p/c Santa Caterina del Sasso, by Wolfgang Sauber via wikimedia commons

In chapter two of the Song of Solomon the Beloved compares his Love to a lily among thorns. The language of the Vulgate, owing a bit to the idioms of Latin, is a bit stronger: lilium inter spinas. She is a lily set in a nest of spines. One cannot get at her without getting into the spines. Towards the end of the chapter the Lover says of her Beloved that they belong each to the other and that he willingly pastures, or “browses”, among the lilies which means also among the thorns.

What’s going-on? Why make this comparison? What’s more —what do the lovers of the Song mean by this?

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Tags Sorrow, Lilies, Thorns, Song of Solomon, Jean-Baptiste-Elie Avrillon, Year of Affections, Andreas Capellanus, Love, Wounds

Transfiguration leading down into Lent

February 24, 2025 Mark Brians

p/c Allesandro Bellone via unspalsh

Like Peter we finish-off the season which included Candlemas, the visit of the Magi, the Baptism of Jesus, the Wedding at Cana, and Jesus’ proclamation in the synagogue that he has come to proclaim good news to the poor and freedom to the captive, with awestruck desire to keep it going like this: “Let’s build three tabernacles…” (Matt 17:4). But keeping it going like this is not the answer. The tabernacle served for a season in God’s story to keep the glory (Ex. 25). But now we come to that moment where the glory must break-out (Is. 9:1-2, 58:8; Matt. 4:16). We can no longer be kept safe from its fiery burnings, from the living flame of love (Ex. 3:2-3; Song. 8:6; Is. 33:14).

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Tags Lent, Transfiguration, Epiphany, Peter, Weeping, Joy, Depths, Glory, Sorrow, Golgotha, Matthew 17:1, Mark 9, Luke 9
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