• trite platitudes don’t seem to do justice to real
losses
• difficult to accept that “all things have beauty” -
including the bad
• trying to ignore grief can contribute to emotional
chaos
• Christ helps Mary M. deal with traumatic stress
TWO STRIKES
• keeping on with routine rituals short-circuited
• notifies friends, but they leave her still crying
outside tomb
ENCOUNTERING THE LORD: CONNECTING FOR A HOMER
• even supernatural vision of angels seems foreign:
artificial religious actions?
• Jesus addresses her - God knows us intimately
• touches us in our humanness
• helps us locate ourselves in God’s larger picture
• commissions us with new purpose
• introduces us into close continuing intimacy:
Trinity, Church