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As I was digging my way through a shoulder-high snow bank trying to set a path into St. Mary's for Palm Sunday, I was thinking about Easter as a Spring rite, and how much we have to translate that heritage to fit our own place and time. In a way my path through the deep and compacted snow could be a metaphor for modern Christians. We need to the find the past of value, and we need to find community with our ancestors, and at the same time we need to be creative and find new ways of expressing our sense of the divine in our life and in the communities that we live in. Sometimes it seems those two paths fit together easily, other times they seem to be at odds with each other. Modern life has enjoyed so many blessings, and our wealth is incredible, and yet at times even in our greatest affluence, modern life seems extremely empty and hollow. Something seems to be missing. Something that seemed so accessible to our ancestors now seems so inaccessible for us. We have reached out to find it, to make it our own, only to find that it slips away into the cliche of modern living. Sometimes it seems like our very affluence makes the divine seem so inaccessible and remote.

I finished the pathway into St. Mary's. There is some ice on it and the snow banks force a narrow walk. But the greater journey makes this one easy. The greater journey is our journey to find the substance that gave our ancestors life. It is the journey to find an earth that binds our roots and gives nourishment. It is a journey to a resurrection that is earth-bound and sustaining us with the divine. This greater journey is the greatest of all journeys and it always awaits us. It is most apparent at every path that leads to the entrance of a Church.

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