Meditations for Isolation - The Power of a Greeting (N221)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this final meditation of the series, Anna reflects on the power of the greeting that Jesus gave his disciples when he met them in the upper room on Easter day. She considers what Pádraig Ó Tuama shares about this greeting in his book In The Shelter: Finding a home in the World. She then leads us in a stilling exercise followed by an Ignatian style meditation, using our imaginations to enter into the scene in the locked room as told in John and Luke’s gospels. Anna then finishes with a short examen and closing prayer.
David Blower responds to the meditation with original music and ambience.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The The |
| 0:23.6 | The I've spent time each day walking near my home around the churchyard, in the woods and around the village. |
| 1:01.5 | And everywhere I walk I find myself greeting neighbours, friends, but mostly strangers, people who I've not met. |
| 1:09.7 | I've only lived here about six months. |
| 1:12.2 | And it feels good to greet people that I meet at this time, to make eye contact, to smile, |
| 1:19.7 | and sometimes say a hi, hey, or hello, or perhaps thank you if they pause to let me go by. |
| 1:28.4 | It seems to convey so much more than the words themselves. |
| 1:34.3 | In his book, In the Shelter, Finding a Home in the World, |
| 1:40.4 | Padre Gautuma talks about spending time in the house of silence in Tese, France. |
| 1:47.1 | He shares how a Tese brother leads them through a reflection during Easter. |
| 1:52.9 | It was John's Gospel, when the disciples had locked themselves in the upper room after Jesus had been crucified. |
| 2:00.2 | He noted that when Jesus arrived in this room full of fear, |
| 2:04.8 | he greeted his disciples by saying, peace be with you. |
| 2:10.4 | The Tese brother suggested that they all paused a moment to consider these words, |
| 2:15.6 | Peace be with you, that the resurrected Jesus had said to his |
| 2:20.2 | fearful followers. He said that in a real sense we can read these words as actually meaning |
| 2:28.0 | hello, as this was the standard greeting in Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic. |
| 2:36.6 | Padregg wrote, |
| 2:41.5 | The disciples were there, in fear, in an upper room, |
| 2:45.8 | locked away, and suddenly the one they had abandoned, |
| 2:50.9 | and perhaps the one they most feared to be with them was with them, |
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