DAY 40 - EASTER SUNDAY

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A GREETING
You show me the path of life.
In your presence there is fullness of joy;
in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
(Psalm 16:11)

A READING
After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning and his clothing white as snow. For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has been raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.’ This is my message for you.” So they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers and sisters to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
(Matthew 28:1-10)

MUSIC


A MEDITATIVE VERSE
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
(Psalm 90:14)

A SONG LYRIC
We shall be known by the company we keep,
by the ones who circle round to tend these fires.
We shall be known by the ones who sow and reap,
the seeds of change, alive from deep within the earth.
It is time now, it is time now that we thrive.
It is time we lead ourselves into the well.
It is time now, and what a time to be alive.
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love.
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love.
- song lyrics for "We Shall Be Known," by Ma Muse
sung in today's music above.

VERSE OF THE DAY
And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
(Matthew 28:20)

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"He is Risen," by He Qi
Chinese-American He Qi is resident artist at Fuller Theological Seminary. His work blends Chinese folk style and media with western Christian medieval art expressions. His expansive use of colour and simple representations offer a gently complex meditative scene. Drawing mostly from moments in the New Testament, his work fuses everyday experience with dramatic and mystical elements. How does this painting of the women on the morning of the third day draw us into the mystical and life-giving possibilities of resurrection? 

Jesus meets Mary Magdalene and the other women and reveals himself. The body of Jesus, which had been so tangible to Mary the day before as she and the others bathed and anointed him, is now transformed. A succession of moments of extravagant love have led to this resurrected Jesus who belongs to a non-corporeal but still earthly realm. Even just in these days: the anointing by nard, the bathing of feet, the carrying and anointing of the body have all led to this moment. We can imagine the women running back through the streets to tell the others, barely able to breathe. Love has been transformed and is transforming and will always be doing so. Jesus will always be love that transforms, living on in each of us from one generation to the next.

Today's music is sung by Singing Out, a Toronto-based choir, and the video features their Trans and Non-Binary Ensemble singing "We Shall Be Known," by Ma Muse, an American songwriting duo whose songs call us into the work of healing and promoting community. In these particular days, trans and non-binary people (see Day 31) might least expect a "Great Turning," as they struggle to be seen and known by others for who they are and to hold on to rights that have been hard-won. As politicians vilify them and reduce their basic rights in some parts of Canada, their optimism and activism are an example of resurrection hope.

On Easter, we celebrate the risen Jesus, who knows each of us by name and who sees us in the whole of our lives, from our birth to our death and beyond. While Easter seems like a time of release and liberation, resurrection work always holds the tension of challenges that need to be overcome amid the human obssession with empire and material gain. We are challenged not to think of Easter as "everything okay again," but as a new starting block for a renewed discipleship, one in which we are ready to take on the work of the kindom, refreshed in our hope.

Whether it is through the gift of song, of protest, of educating ourselves and others, the transformative love of Jesus compels us to action. We can and will change the world, one small but profound loving act at a time. May it be so.

Blessed Easter! He is Risen! May God's peace stay with us into the days of Eastertide and beyond.

See you at Season of Creation!

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This marks the end of the LC† From Dust, Still Holy devotional for Lent and Holy Week. Thank you to all who followed here, wrote emails of support, posted to Facebook and upheld the ministry through sharing it with others. We are grateful! Special thanks to Rev. Dr. Allen Jorgenson and Rev. Victoria A. Featherston for their offering of original writing on certain days. As always, grateful thanks to the support team of Pastor Steve Hoffard, Catherine Evenden and Henriette Thompson, who were invaluable especially in the conceptual development of this project and who helped keep it on track. Grateful to the Mission Committee of the Eastern Synod, and to Martin Luther University College for support of these devotions.


The artists that were featured: Stanley Spencer, Lorenzo Quinn, Jorge Cocco Santángelo, Laura Makabresku, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Ayana Otake, Calida Garcia Rawles, Alireza Karimi Moghaddam, Louise Bourgeois, Eudora Welty, Dee-Jay Monika Rumbolt, Kent Monkman, Frida Kahlo, Julie Shelton Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Laura Makabresku again, Marc Chagall, Stanley Spencer again, James Tissot, Caravaggio, and He Qi. 

Scripture passages are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.

For those who may wish to pursue an imagined narrative of the events of Holy Week as told through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, this blog was created in 2009 by Deacon Sherry and then republished in 2020.
Palm Sunday.
Holy Monday.
Holy Tuesday.
Holy Wednesday.
Maundy Thursday.
Good Friday.
Holy Saturday. 
Easter Sunday.

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LC† From Dust, Still Holy is a devotional series of Lutherans Connect, supported by the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Centre for Spirituality and Media at Martin Luther University College. To receive the devotions by email, write to lutheransconnect@gmail.com. The devotional pages are written and curated by Deacon Sherry Coman, with support and input from Pastor Steve Hoffard, Catherine Evenden and Henriette Thompson. Join us on Facebook. Lutherans Connect invites you to make a donation to the Ministry by going to this link on the website of the ELCIC Eastern Synod and selecting "Lutherans Connect Devotionals" under "Fund". Devotions are always freely offered, however your donations help support the ongoing work. 
Thank you and peace be with you!

DAY 39 - HOLY SATURDAY

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A GREETING
I yearn for your salvation, O God!
(Genesis 49:18)

A READING
When evening fell, a wealthy man from Arimathea named Joseph, who had become a disciple of Jesus, came to request the body of Jesus; Pilate issued an order for its release. Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in fresh linen and laid it in his own tomb, which had been hewn out of rock. Then Joseph rolled a huge stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away. But Mary of Magdala and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb.
(Matthew 27:57-61)

MUSIC


A MEDITATIVE VERSE
Just as each of us has one body with many members—and these members don’t have the same function— so all of us, in union with Christ, form one body. And as members of that one body, we belong to each other.
(Romans 12:4-5)

A REFLECTION
There was deep rest around the grave of Jesus. On the seventh day of the week of our redemption, when Jesus had fulfilled all he was sent by his Father to do, he rested in the tomb, and the women whose hearts were broken with grief rested with him. Of all the days in history, Holy Saturday -- the Saturday during which the body of Jesus lay in the tomb in silence and darkness behind the large stone that was rolled against its entrance -- is the day of God's solitude. The word of God through whom all has been made lies buried in the darkness of the earth. This Holy Saturday is the most quiet of all days... This divine silence is the most fruitful silence that the world has ever known. From this silence, the word will be spoken again and make all things new.
- by Henri Nouwen, found in A Triduum Sourcebook 1
compiled by Joan Halmo and Frank Henderson

VERSE OF THE DAY
Your love must be sincere.
(Romans 12:9a)

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"The Entombment of Christ," by Caravaggio (1603-4)
The painting shows a vertical descent of people holding and/or weeping over Jesus from top right to bottom left. Nicodemus or Joseph of Arimathea (scholars debate) is in the foreground holding the legs and looking out at us. The beloved disciple is at the other end of the body. The right hand of Jesus comes astride the stone slab he will lie on, while behind and above him, the arms of a woman (identified as Mary of Clopas) rise up in the air, thus forming a line connecting earth and heaven. One hand of Mary the mother of Jesus hovers out over his body to bless him, while a weeping figure (Mary Magdalene) has her head bowed. The red and white fabric form a cross around the body of Jesus, symbolizing perhaps his human blood and divine nature. The scene is intimate and natural, among very human figures, whose bodies are so entwined with the body of Jesus that they appear almost as one. 

On Saturday, those who have loved and followed Jesus grieve him, and some of them attend to his body. In all three synoptic gospel accounts, the person who bargains with Pilate to get the body of Jesus is Joseph of Arimathea. It is only in the John account that Nicodemus is introduced into that scene. In all three synoptic gospel accounts, the women are not a part of taking down the body from the cross and laying it in a tomb. But in Matthew and Mark, they observe from afar. Yet, the art depicting this moment has down through the centuries unmistakably seen the women as present throughout all of the events.

While Good Friday is a day of shock, violence and horror, Saturday is the day of deep grieving. There might be some reflecting on whether they got it right about who Jesus was: the long awaited messiah. On this day, the world is colder and darker, and given to as much fear as death. The disciples are at this point scattered.

Holy Saturday is that sacred threshold time, when the world's orientation has been shattered and there is nothing to take its place. Holy Saturday holds all of the waiting weight of the world. Those who wait for justice, those in refugee camps, people who are detained, those who are being interrogated, those who await a diagnosis, those who are companions to the dying, those who are deeply lonely, those who fear what the next day will bring in war-torn lands. All of these live in Holy Saturday.

Christ has no body now but yours. In the grief soaked silence of this day, what are the flickers of transformation waiting to be born in our hearts and actions? How will you be Christ's body today?

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Scripture passages are taken from The Inclusive Bible.
For those who may wish to pursue an imagined narrative of the events of Holy Week as told through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, this blog was created in 2009 by Deacon Sherry and then republished in 2020.
Palm Sunday.
Holy Monday.
Holy Tuesday.
Holy Wednesday.
Maundy Thursday.
Good Friday.
Holy Saturday. (One more day tomorrow.)

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LC† From Dust, Still Holy is a devotional series of Lutherans Connect, supported by the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Centre for Spirituality and Media at Martin Luther University College. To receive the devotions by email, write to lutheransconnect@gmail.com. The devotional pages are written and curated by Deacon Sherry Coman, with support and input from Pastor Steve Hoffard, Catherine Evenden and Henriette Thompson. Join us on Facebook. Lutherans Connect invites you to make a donation to the Ministry by going to this link on the website of the ELCIC Eastern Synod and selecting "Lutherans Connect Devotionals" under "Fund". Devotions are always freely offered, however your donations help support the ongoing work. 
Thank you and peace be with you!

DAY 38 - GOOD FRIDAY

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A GREETING
Out of the depths I cry to you, O God.
(Psalm 130:1)

A READING
So they took Jesus;
and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull,
which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others,
one on either side, with Jesus between them. When Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfil the scripture),
‘I am thirsty.’ A jar full of sour wine was standing there.
So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
(John 19:16-18;28-30)

MUSIC
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, is from a 13th century Latin hymn that outlines in detail
the grief experienced by the Virgin Mary at the Crucifixion.


A MEDITATIVE VERSE
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
(Psalm 22:1)

A PRAYER
Out of the bud of the wood of the Cross
wherefore hearts' love embraces
whence out of extended arms
You lovingly take us.
- from the prayer of St. Francis Xavier
found on briarcroft

VERSE OF THE DAY
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul,
‘therefore I will hope in him.’
(Lamentations 3:22-24)


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"What our Lord saw from the Cross," by James Tissot (bet. 1886 and 1894)
Tissot inverts the classic image of Good Friday by taking the point of view of Jesus looking down.
Can you see yourself in the crowd...?

On Friday, the human Jesus dies. His murder is a slow brutal killing that expresses the capacity of human beings for evil. The human body of Jesus has interacted with countless people and animals too. The hands of Jesus that have healed suffering and restored life are now nailed to a cross. The feet which have walked endless miles to teach and preach, are also pierced. The back that has bent over in nurturing and caring, is now flogged and pressed to wood. The face that has gazed into the eyes of many, now hangs and is limp.

The violence of the murder of Jesus is what sometimes feels unrelatable to us --- as most of us have not ever witnessed a murder or seen its aftermath. As much as Jesus wanted us to see how much good we are capable of as human beings, perhaps he also yearned for us to see our capacity for evil. We learn from Jesus just how wide a range of good and evil can be embodied by humanity.

The execution of Jesus calls us to look at the places where such unabashed killing exists in our own time. The crucifixion continues in many forms in our world. If we are all made in the image of God, and if we are meant to see Christ in our neighbour, then whenever we intentionally and willfully cause harm to our neighbour, we are participating in the crucifixon. Jesus allows his mortal body to undergo agony and death, so that we might see for ourselves how much that murderous impulse continues to exist in human beings. The slow incremental loss of his power over the days of ministry and the days of Holy Week, is how he lays down his life for his friends. The crucifixion is all about us -- about what human beings do to each other. He was willing to take that on .

We are not at Easter, so it is only brokenness.

And yet, at the foot of the Cross are the women who stayed.

There are also in our own time witnesses, the people who do the work of attending at the moment of unconscionable suffering. Those who rescue migrants, those who intercept human trafficking, those who bring aid to war zones, who take risks with their own lives to save others -- are the women at the feet of Jesus.

There is so much killing in our world today, in the name of power and empire. How do we dismantle the systems of injustice that lead to human slaughter? What are we willing to do to sit at the foot of the Cross?

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Scripture passages are taken from the New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition.
For those who may wish to pursue an imagined narrative of the events of Holy Week as told through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, this blog was created in 2009 by Deacon Sherry and then republished in 2020.
Palm Sunday.
Holy Monday.
Holy Tuesday.
Holy Wednesday.
Maundy Thursday.
Good Friday.
(A new day will be made visible here each day.)

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LC† From Dust, Still Holy is a devotional series of Lutherans Connect, supported by the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Centre for Spirituality and Media at Martin Luther University College. To receive the devotions by email, write to lutheransconnect@gmail.com. The devotional pages are written and curated by Deacon Sherry Coman, with support and input from Pastor Steve Hoffard, Catherine Evenden and Henriette Thompson. Join us on Facebook. Lutherans Connect invites you to make a donation to the Ministry by going to this link on the website of the ELCIC Eastern Synod and selecting "Lutherans Connect Devotionals" under "Fund". Devotions are always freely offered, however your donations help support the ongoing work. 
Thank you and peace be with you!

DAY 37 - MAUNDY THURSDAY

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A GREETING
Save me, my God!
(Psalm 3:7)

A READING
During supper, Jesus—knowing that God had put all things into his own hands, and that he had come from God and was returning to God, rose from the table, took off his clothes and wrapped a towel around his waist. He then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and dry them with the towel that was around his waist.
When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said, “Rabbi, you’re not going to wash my feet, are you?”
Jesus answered, “You don’t realize what I am doing right now, but later you’ll understand.”
Peter replied, “You’ll never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”
Simon Peter said to Jesus, “Then, Rabbi, not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”
Jesus said, “Any who have taken a bath are clean all over and only need to wash their feet."
(John 13:2b - 10a)

MUSIC


A MEDITATIVE VERSE
“The truth of the matter is,
no subordinate is greater than the superior;
no messenger outranks the sender.
(John 13:16)

A POETIC REFLECTION
Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,
what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.
In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.
And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.
- “Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
found on the website for On Being

VERSE OF THE DAY
Once you know all these things,
you’ll be blessed if you put them into practice.
(John 13:17)

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"The Last Supper," by Stanley Spencer (1920).
We return to artist Stanley Spencer whose work was included in the first four days of this devotional. Here, the over-articulated bodies of the disciples are framed in the moment of hearing that someone will betray Jesus. The setting is a malt house in Spencer's native Cookham, England. The crossed feet of the disciples form a kind of ladder leading up to Jesus. The positioning of the feet also prefigures the moment after the meal when Jesus will wash their feet.

The Gospel accounts of the final days of Jesus with the disciples and others are filled with moments when the disciples cannot accept what Jesus is telling them. Jesus tries to warn his friends of what is coming and give them instruction on what it means. Among them they have different ways of hearing and not hearing him. In today's vulnerable exchange between Peter and Jesus, we hear Peter struggling to hold on to his own way of thinking.

Once again, it’s all about feet. It has been mere days since the dinner in Bethany with Mary’s gift of anointing and now Jesus' feet are once again a subject of discussion. This time it is Peter who is asking the questions. Peter can't bring himself to let Jesus wash his feet. Jesus replies that this is how it works in the kindom — all are equal. There is no more hierarchy, no more kings. Still not understanding, Peter suggests that if Jesus is going to bathe him then he will also wash his entire body. Since this would be absurd, he is hoping the absurdity will further prevent the foot washing. Jesus replies that the rest of Peter is already clean, returning Peter’s attention to the feet. Serving each other and making a commitment to community is how we deepen our faith.

When Jesus bathes the feet of the disciples, he is offering his own extravagant love. He is making each person significant through his attention and also making clear that no one is more important than the other. But Jesus perhaps also knows, as he looks at the gathered, that many of these will at some point also be killed for their faith. In this perspective, Jesus is anointing the feet of those who will experience hardship and also die because of their commitment to him.

How might you imagine in prayer today Jesus washing your feet? Would you stop him, not believing yourself to be worthy? Or would you allow yourself to feel the tender embrace of his hands?

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Image by Jay Huang

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Scripture passages are taken from The Inclusive Bible.
For those who may wish to pursue an imagined narrative of the events of Holy Week as told through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, this blog was created in 2009 by Deacon Sherry and then republished in 2020.
Palm Sunday.
Holy Monday.
Holy Tuesday.
Holy Wednesday.
Maundy Thursday.
(A new day will be made visible here each day.)


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LC† From Dust, Still Holy is a devotional series of Lutherans Connect, supported by the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Centre for Spirituality and Media at Martin Luther University College. To receive the devotions by email, write to lutheransconnect@gmail.com. The devotional pages are written and curated by Deacon Sherry Coman, with support and input from Pastor Steve Hoffard, Catherine Evenden and Henriette Thompson. Join us on Facebook. Lutherans Connect invites you to make a donation to the Ministry by going to this link on the website of the ELCIC Eastern Synod and selecting "Lutherans Connect Devotionals" under "Fund". Devotions are always freely offered, however your donations help support the ongoing work. 
Thank you and peace be with you!

DAY 36

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A GREETING
Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
(Psalm 36:5)

A READING
Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves, and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?
But you have made it a den of robbers.”
And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him, for they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples[a] went out of the city.
(Mark 11:15-19)

MUSIC


A MEDITATIVE VERSE
And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove and alighting on him.
(Matthew 3:16)

A POEM
Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;

I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
- from "Starlings in Winter," by Mary Oliver

VERSE OF THE DAY
Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.
(Psalm 74:19)

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"Christ au bougies," by Marc Chagall (1954-1960)
Chagall, a French-Russian Jewish painter depicted Jesus in Jewish contexts for many years before, during and after the second world war. Faithful to the events of Jesus' life, his works also separate Jesus (whom he thought of as a great "poet") from contemporary Christian iconography to help illuminate the suffering of the Jewish people in the Europe of the Shoah. In this painting, Chagall picks up on Jesus' scriptural pattern of preaching during Jewish festivals drenched in light (Chanukah John 10; and Sukkot John 7 as examples) by combining the candles in the foreground, with a Jesus who is grieving the corruption of the temple. The presence of a non-specific animal behind Jesus is most likely a sacrificial temple animal.

After days of composure and enduring compassion amid throngs of suffering people, something in Jesus seems to break down when he and his friends enter the temple. Reading the temple accounts across the four gospels, a picture emerges of a man deeply impacted by human emotion. In all four accounts, Jesus routs out the money changers and dovesellers with forceful language (in John this includes an action with a whip). He mourns over Jerusalem, expressing grief and tender sorrow. He despairs over hypocrises, using the language of curses ("woe to you").

In John 2 he compares himself to the temple that will be torn down and rebuilt in three days. Here he is referring to his own body which will be crucified, and his resurrected self which will return. He is the temple that will be rebirthed, anew. As volatile as he becomes, he also has calmer moments. He teaches, tells parables, is cool under questioning by the temple authorities.

While he is in the temple, Jesus is confronted by the activity of sacrifice, the slaughter of animals that was prescribed as the way to maintain right relationship with God. The temple would have been full of the sounds and cries of animals. It was both an abattoir and a place of ritual cleanliness - a challenging tension of opposites. As Jesus moves around, he is confronted by the corruption that is everywhere around him. The activity of the temple represents how he himself will be treaed -- what will become of him. His physical body has begun to be impacted by his diminishing authority. The temple is perhaps one last place where he exercises agency before submitting to what is before him.

Why the dovesellers, more than any other merchant? Doves and pigeons were the sacrificial offering of the poor -- the most affordable option for paying dues and being on the right side of the authorities. Dovesellers exploited their position by exacting exorbitant fees from people who had nothing. In other accounts the dovesellers are instructed to take the birds away. The mercy of Jesus is on the doves as well as the people.

Doves are referenced more times in Scripture than any other bird. The dove marks some of the most significant moments in Jesus' life. A dove appears at his baptism by John the Baptist (Matthew 3). The 'spirit from heaven' descending like a dove that is named in John 1 becomes the image of the Holy Spirit. Elsewhere in scriptural story, the dove that Noah sends out from the ark to look for land brings back a piece of greenery, and in so doing, ushers in new life.

To be confronted with injustice is exhausting to the body. When have you felt depleted by the ways in which the world seems to have lost its way? How can the Jesus who is hungry for justice meet you in your anguish?

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Scripture passages are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.

For those who may wish to pursue an imagined narrative of the events of Holy Week as told through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, this blog was created in 2009 by Deacon Sherry and then republished in 2020 during the pandemic. The first few days can be found here:
Palm Sunday.
Holy Monday.
Holy Tuesday.
Holy Wednesday.
(A new day will be made visible here each day.)

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LC† From Dust, Still Holy is a devotional series of Lutherans Connect, supported by the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Centre for Spirituality and Media at Martin Luther University College. To receive the devotions by email, write to lutheransconnect@gmail.com. The devotional pages are written and curated by Deacon Sherry Coman, with support and input from Pastor Steve Hoffard, Catherine Evenden and Henriette Thompson. Join us on Facebook. Lutherans Connect invites you to make a donation to the Ministry by going to this link on the website of the ELCIC Eastern Synod and selecting "Lutherans Connect Devotionals" under "Fund". Devotions are always freely offered, however your donations help support the ongoing work. 
Thank you and peace be with you!