From my personal experience of being a hospital chaplain, I remember how difficult it was when there were back to back, consecutive deaths of few young cancer patients on my unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the hospital I was chaplain interning. The scale of grief encountered by chaplains in this pandemic is too […]
Month: April 2020
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Holy Saturday
Waking up today I feel honest and true to the day. I am “looking forward” to Holy Saturday to be as I am and not feel I have to feel ok, or pull myself up to be more put together than I am. I want to “remain” here where I don’t have to pretend I […]
Came across an article about the Healing Touch of Easter even in the midst of shelter in place and in our isolation. Author talks about embodied suffering. And the healing that comes in embodied vulnerable “wounded healer,” God who does not run away from our suffering but touches our wounds with compassion. We can each […]
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“For whom are you looking?”
What does Easter mean to you? Why are we gathered here now together in spirit, despite being separated physically by sheltering in place? Why do people who don’t normally come to church think to come on Easter Sunday? And how are you celebrating Easter? Is how you are celebrating Easter tied to your understanding of […]
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“Truly this man was God’s Son”
Let’s start with things we know and are important at this very moment. All of us are confronted with these three facts. We are in the midst of collectively fighting the Covid-19, the Novel Coronavirus, without a clear end in sight. Today is Palm Sunday, beginning of the Holy Week. “Truly this man [Jesus] was […]
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