Nouwen Online Reading Group

Warm greetings!  We thought we’d take a break over the summer (partly because I will be on sabbatical) and resume our discussions in September. Jack Given has graciously agreed to lead us in a discussion of The Inner Voice of Love, starting September 29th.  So, please add this book to your collection of summer reading! You can purchase a copy of the book from Daybreak Books & Media, an outreach ministry of the L’Arche Daybreak community by contacting Steve Ellis at 1-800-853-1412 | nouwenbooks@larchedaybreak.com.  You can also order it at www.henrinouwen.org/shopcart.

We wish you a peaceful, healthy, restful and joyous summer and look forward to our discussion in the fall.  Please feel free of course, to post here at any time.  We are always happy to hear from you.

Maureen
Resource Coordinator, Henri Nouwen Society

My fears, dear Lord, of opening my eyes to the suffering world are deeply rooted in my own anxious heart.  I am not sure that I, myself, am truly loved and safely held, and so I keep my distance from other people’s fear-filled lives. But again you say: “Do not be afraid to let me look at your wounded heart, to embrace you, to heal you, to comfort and console you . . . because I love you with a love that knows no bounds and poses no conditions.”. . . As your passion, death, and resurrection continue in history, give me the hope, the courage, and the confidence to let your heart unite my heart with the hearts of all your suffering people, and so become for us the divine source of new life.
Amen.
Excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s Walk With Jesus, Orbis Books. Posted with the kind permission of the publisher.

Many thanks to Jack Given for leading this Lenten discussion and to Jacquie Lombardi for assisting us with the comment moderation.  We are very grateful to them and to all who participated.  Whether you shared regularly, once in a while or just checked in from time to time to read the excerpt and comments, we hope your spirit was nourished and renewed.  We invite you to continue to read and post comments here.  When we’ve organized the next book discussion we’ll post a notice and ask you to help us get the word out.  Once again, we invite you to give us your suggestions for the next book.
Peace and Easter blessings,
Maureen
Resource Coordinator, Henri Nouwen Society
 

On that morning of the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James and Salome found the tomb empty and heard a young man in a white robe say: �??He is not here.�?? Mary of Magdala heard him call her by name, and Cleopas and his friend recognized him at Emmaus in the breaking of the bread. In the evening of that same day, he came and stood among his disciples, saying, �??Peace be with you,�?? and showed them his hands and his side. As these things took place, new words broke out of the silence of Holy Saturday and touched the hearts and the minds of the men and women who had known and loved Jesus. These words were, �??He has risen, risen indeed,�?? They were whispered from ear to ear as an intimate message that could be truly heard and understood only by a heart that had been yearning for the coming of the kingdom and had recognized its first signs in the words and deeds of the man from Nazareth. . . . As we live our lives with a resurrection faith, our burdens become light burdens and our yokes easy yokes because we have found rest in the gentle and humble heart of Jesus that belongs for all eternity to God.
Excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s��Walk With Jesus, Orbis Books. Posted with the kind permission of the publisher.

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Joseph of Arimathea placed the body of Jesus “in a tomb which was hewn in stone and which had never held a body.” On the seventh day of the week of our redemption, when Jesus had fulfilled all he was sent by his Father to do, he rested in the tomb, and the women from Galilee whose hearts were broken with grief rested with him. Of all the days in history, Holy Saturday–the Saturday during which the body of Jesus lay in the tomb in silence and darkness, is the day on which the whole creation waits in deep inner rest. It is the day on which no words are spoken, no proclamations made, buried in the darkness of the earth. This divine silence is the most fruitful silence that the world has ever known. From this silence, the Word will be spoken again and make all things new.
Excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s Walk With Jesus, Orbis Books. Posted with the kind permission of the publisher.

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After Pilate had been assured of Jesus’ death, he granted the body to Joseph of Arimathea. Joseph “bought a shroud, took Jesus down from the cross, and wrapped him in the shroud.” Mary, the mother of Jesus, was there. Long ago, when she had let old Simeon hold her child in his arms, she had heard his words: “A sword will pierce your soul”. Now as she received the body of Jesus in her arms, these words were being fulfilled. Jesus had suffered and died, but the sorrow of her who had loved him as mother now brought forth a pain such as had never been suffered before by any human being. She, who had embraced the Son of God with her love, now embraced the whole of humanity with her sorrow. Mary received the body of Jesus and held him in her immense solitude. The intimate union between love and sorrow that was formed as she held her son in her arms would continue to exist in all those who chose to live close to the heart of God.
Excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s Walk With Jesus, Orbis Books. Posted with the kind permission of the publisher.

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Jesus died. The powers of death crushed him. Not only the fear-ridden judgments of Pilate, the torture by the Roman soldiers, and the cruel crucifixion, but also the powers and principalities of this world. The world’s death powers destroyed him.. . . Jesus was crushed by the powers of death, but his death removed death’s sting. To those who believe in him he gave the power to become children of God, that is, to participate in the life where death can no longer reach. By his death, Jesus was victorious over all the powers of death. The darkness in our hearts that makes us surrender to the power of death, the darkness in our society that makes us victims of violence, war, and destruction, has been dispelled by the light that shines forth from the One who gave his life as a complete gift to the God of life. Paul says: Our Savior Christ…has abolished death and he has brought to light immortality and life through the Gospel” (2 Tim. 1:10).. . . Every moment there is a choice to be made: the choice for or against life.. . . There is a place in us where we can choose a direction and stop the forces of death from pulling us deeper and deeper into the pit of darkness.
Excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s Walk With Jesus, Orbis Books.  Posted with the kind permission of the publisher.

Jesus was nailed to the cross, and for three hours he was dying. He died between two men. One of them said to the other: “We are paying for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong” (Luke 23:41) Jesus lived his dying completely for others. The total exhaustion of his body, the abandonment by his friends, and even of his God, all became the gift of self. And as he hung dying in complete powerlessness, nailed against the wood of a tree, there was no bitterness, no desire for revenge, no resentment. Nothing to cling to. All to give. . . . By being given away for others, his life became fruitful. Jesus, the completely innocent one, the one without sin, without guilt, without shame, died an excruciatingly painful death in order that death no longer would have to be ignored, but could become a gateway to life and the source of a new communion. . . . We all must die. And we all will die alone. No one can make that final journey with us. We have to let go of what is most our own and trust that we did not live in vain. . . .In dying, all of humanity is one. And it was into this dying humanity that God entered so as to give us hope.
Excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s Walk With Jesus, Orbis Books.  Posted with the kind permission of the publisher.

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Jesus was stripped. The soldiers threw dice to decide which of them would have his garment. Nothing was left to him. He, the image of the unseen God, the first-born of all creation, was being stripped of all power and dignity and exposed to the world in total vulnerability. Here the greatest mystery of all time was revealed to us: God chose to reveal the divine glory to us in humiliation. Where all beauty is gone, all eloquence withdrawn, there it is that God has chosen to manifest unconditional love to us. Jesus bore our suffering. The stripped body of Jesus reveals to us the immense degradation that human beings suffer all through the world, at all places and in all times. Life is an increasing call to let go of desires, of success and accomplishment, to give up the need to be in control, to die to the illusion of greatness. The joy and peace that Jesus offers is hidden in the descending way of the cross. There lie hope, victory, and new life, but they are given to us where we are losing all.
Excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s Walk With Jesus, Orbis Books.  Posted with the kind permission of the publisher.