What to do with Passion Week? Or Blessed are those who mourn

Neither my husband nor I are very churchy people. But our interest in monastic spirituality has brought us to participate in the liturgy of the Christian tradition more closely again. In the years of our youth and then during our academic pursuits, we were interested in many things other than the liturgy of the church year. Perhaps this was a good thing. As old Søren Kierkegaard used to say: you first have to reflect yourself out of Christianity in order to come back to it anew. 

In the last years I have come to honor and enjoy the Benedictine tradition, especially their reduced "liturgy of the hours," with chanting the psalms three times a day – something which has survived for more than a thousand years. Many trends come and go. Stability is what our hearts long for. A home for the constant changes of our spiritual journey. Even if, or especially because, we do not understand its depth or complexity.

I have recently begun to discover CG Jung. Again. It was probably time that a Luthera…