Easter Week: Monday | Matthew 28 (11-15)

Greetings, Duffy in Vermont!

It's 9:46 AM EDT and we have arranged a phone call for later in the day. The truth is, if you are up to it, it's even better for me to aim for an hour or so between 8-10 AM on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday or Monday. This is the dedicated "Watch of the Church" in my hermit's calendar through the end of Eastertide on Saturday, May 30. (On Friday mornings from 8-10 AM, Church is usually errands and a weekly coffee with my mom. On Saturday mornings, I am keeping a separate "Watch of the Sabbath.") I want to see what happens if I channel all of my Church communications, including our calls, into this dedicated Sun-Thu 8-10 AM horarium bandwidth.

No worries if this doesn't work for you one morning this week. I completely understand if you'd prefer to talk this afternoon or evening instead. I know it's short notice!

This seems like such a mundane subject for a public blog post - I should be saying something important about N.T. Wright's commentary on Matthew 28:11-15. But in order to treat this passage with the care it deserves, I would need at least at another two hours, and I am already running late (now that it is 10:10 AM) on my Watch of the Prophet (10 AM to 12 Noon), which I have not kept in over a week.

And really, this is not a mundane communication at all. It's an exercise in spiritual friendship and monastic discipline.   

God bless :)