“Dear woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who are you looking for?”

 She thought he was the gardener. “Sir,” she said, “if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.”

What we celebrate on Easter morning was for those who lived through it a time of bewilderment and confusion and shock. Using text from Mark 16 and John 20 we pray with the women who went to anoint Jesus’ body for burial, and we are invited into the unfolding mystery through their perspective. Grab your journal, find a comfortable place for prayer, and give as much of yourself as you’re able to this practice of prayer.

Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina.

Mark 16:1-6, John 20:14-18 is read from the NRSV

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Artwork: Tissot