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23rd March, 2008
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WHO WILL ROLL THE STONE AWAY FOR US? Mk 16,3
(Chantal de La Forge, Soeur du Cénacle)
Who will roll the stone away from us?…Who?
the sealed stone of our tombs
tombs of our habits
tombs of our idols of our fixed judgments
our stubborn ideas
our paralysing fears…
But also the tombs of our buried sufferings
of our resentments and bitterness
our repressed disappointments
our accumulated failures…
Who will roll the stone away from us?…Who?
This stone, this stumbling block
the stone of our "why"s
of all the "why"s we come up against
all the "why"s we hear crying out around us
that resonate so strongly in us…
all the "why"s of mankind throughout the centuries
the "why" of mankind today
the "why" of the Son on the Cross…
Who will roll the stone away for us?…Who?
"for the stone was very large…"
"Very early, on the first day of the week,
when the sun had risen,
they went to the tomb
they looked up: the stone had been rolled back…" Mk 16,2-4
The Sun has risen
the Sun has risen from the tomb
the Sun has risen from all our tombs
the stone has been rolled away:
a breach, a gap in all our walls
in all the walls of the impossible
all the walls of enclosure
all the walls of separation
in all our fortresses…
a crack, a breach, has opened up a Passage
forever and we are ceaselessly drawn through this Passover
The Sun has risen, the RISEN CHRIST
"in his own person he killed the hostility" Eph 2,16
gaping fissure of his wounded Love
gaping fissure of his transpierced side from which flowed water and the Spirit
from which flowed life that cannot be blocked forever
"I have opened before you a door that no one can close" Rv 3,8 (Translated from the French by Sr Maureen Scrine nds)