Wise Words On Wednesday: Kenosis

Whether it’s turning twenty-one, forty, or sixty-five, whether it’s losing your health or your hair, your books or your beauty, your money or your memory, a person you love or a possession you prize, yesterday’s rapture or today’s applause, you have to move on. Essential to the human’s pilgrimage to the Christian journey is the self-emptying more or less like Christ’s own emptying. Time and again, from womb to tomb, you have to let go. And to let go is to die a little. It’s painful, it can be bloody; and so we hang [on], clutch our yesterday’s, like Linus’s blanket, refuse to grow
– Walter Burghardt
Happy Feast of the Assumption/Dormition 🙂
Today is another entry from “Jesus, I trust in you”, which is a combination of Marian prayers, including the 

One of my friends went to World Youth Day in Kraków this year and came back with a CD called “Jesus, I trust in You” which was directed by Hubert Kowalski. It’s gorgeous. If you are familiar with the Taizé style of music it will seem very familiar. Below is my favourite track from the CD, Psalm 51 (50), David’s prayer of repentance: