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Are you looking for a contemplative experience of Easter?
Would you like to celebrate Jesus the Christ within each of us
more than reflect on Jesus' last days?
Join us for a very special celebration of the Easter Mystery.
Triduum pre-dates by centuries the tradition of Holy Week.
In Dr. Shaia's restoration, we use the traditional rites but with a far different focus.
His Triduum invites us to meditate on the dying and rising Christ through
the thrice repeated cycle of night to dawn
and our own inner journey through death and resurrection.
The Triduum is one moment of prayer over three nights and three days.
The Cosmos again takes her rightful role as a face of the dying and rising Christ.
This setting of the Triduum began with the resotration by church scholars, and adds the prophetic work of Thomas Berry, Richard Rohr and others who are making the call to reconnect our worship with the mysteries of the cosmos, as well as adding Carl Jung's understanding of symbolic language, the archetypes and depth ritual.
Triduum reveals how Jesus the Christ's dying and rising is a present moment action that happens in the midst of a gathered, reconciled and praying community.
In this setting, we all sing in Christ.
Light and dark, female and male, height and depth,
and all creation gives praise from inside
God's Wedding Chamber.
Please see the brief video
filmed at last year's retreat at La Casa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqxFCaSqCIs&feature=player_embedded
Alexander J. Shaia, PhD, is a ritualist, spiritual director,
archetypal psychotherapist, and passionate professional speaker.
He is the author the nationally acclaimed:
Hidden Power of the Gospels: Four Questions, Four Paths, One Journey
More on Alexander Shaia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YPLAxABuOo
He is the founder of the Blue Door Retreat in Santa Fe, N.M.
He travels internationally, lecturing and conducting retreats on Quadratos, rites of passage, Jungian sandplay therapy, and Christian spirituality.
His book on the Easter Triduum, Wedding Chamber of God's People,
is to be published early in 2009.
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