Next week we'll return to some faith re-building topics such as sin, grace, and ecumenism but before we enter into the story of Jesus's death and resurrection this Triduum, let's take a look at our own stories, the below-the-surface things that we and God are writing together in the story of our souls.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to know and understand your own story, and some that will help you enter into the Passion story of Jesus:
1. Journal or meditation prompts:
If I could write a title for the chapter of life I'm currently on, what would it be called?
What do my early chapters have to say about my story?
If I were writing my autobiography, what would it be called?
At the heart of it, just between me and Jesus, what are illustrative words that describe my story?
As I consider the Passion of Jesus, where do I see myself in His story?
2. Story of a Soul: the Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
3. Biblical account from the book of Matthew: Jesus's passion, death, and resurrection
4. He Chose the Nails, by Max Lucado
5. Good Friday: The Meaning of the Cross, a video by Fr. Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents
6. The Story and Character, pieces I've written in past years on how to find yourself in the Passion Narrative.
7. How He Loves Us, cover by Sarah Reeves
8. Receiving the Passion story through a different lens is a good way to find yourself in it. For me, Jesus Christ Superstar can always help me do just that.
9. I Am Because You Are, by Amanda Lindsey Cook
