Easter Blessings
Taken from Jim Cogley’s Reflections
With every joy and blessing this Easter
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Peadar O’Callaghan – Easter, much more than Christmas, generates in me a melancholy longing for home. That is why I set out last night to participate in the Easter Vigil in the parish church of my home town where I began my career lighting parishioners’ candles from my altar-boy’s taper.
Before going I watched Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Nostalgia’ (local library borrowed DVD 1983 – 120 mins). He dedicated the film to the memory of his mother.
A powerful prelude to the Vigil liturgy was watching the lighting of the poor man’s candle and his gift of bread and wine to the poet and the pools of water in the film (including Tarkovsky’s perennial rain!). How Tarkovsky weaves these symbols, including the immolation of the poor man into his narrative is an extraordinary lesson in ‘catholic’ liturgy.
When I came home I lit the stub of the old Paschal candle in my little oratory from the candle of the night – it will give me light for another year.
Happy Easter All!