Bonus: A Meditation on Holy Week

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this bonus episode of Turning to The Mystics, Jim and Kirsten are focusing on Holy Week and discussing what this ritual can offer us as we continue to process and navigate our way through this pandemic. The transcript for this bonus episode can be found here. To learn more about James Finley, visit jamesfinley.org Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments or feedback. To do so, email us at [email protected] Have a question you’d like Jim or Kirsten to answer on a future episode? Email us: [email protected] or, send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cacac.org.
0:08.9	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.8	And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Welcome to turning to the Mystics. Welcome everyone to another bonus episode of turning to the
0:27.2	Mystics with Jim Finley. We're still finding ourselves in very challenging situations and we're hearing on the news
0:37.2	this week that this is likely to be the hardest week for us in America that the deaths will escalate and then we're also
0:47.4	facing economic hardship and so Jim and I just send love and care out to everyone and hope you're taking care of yourselves and taking care of others as you are able.
1:01.0	And we find ourselves heading into Holy Week this week. And so when Jim
1:09.2	and I were talking about what this bonus episode might focus on, we thought a focus on Holy Week might be
1:17.5	helpful.
1:18.5	We know that many people won't be able to be with their church communities in ways they have in the past.
1:25.7	And we also feel like this holy weak ritual has power in it and that it's lasted throughout history for a reason
1:36.7	that it that it offers us something and so we focus on a Holy Week teaching today and I'll turn over to you Jim. Thank you.
1:47.0	Thank you.
1:48.0	Thank you, Christian. Yes, you know the dovetailing of the pandemic crisis we're all going through together
1:56.2	in Holy Week and looking on this maybe being like the hardest week, maybe.
2:02.2	And liturgically it dovetails the weekend Jesus that was the
2:05.9	hardest week he ever went through. And so I thought it would be fitting. I like this idea then of dovetailing this
2:15.1	liturgically with Holy Week. And what I'd like to do here is to share with you a
2:20.9	kind of a poetic meditation on the story of
2:27.8	Veronica's Vale. That in the Catholic tradition there's the devotional practice of the
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