{"id":675,"date":"2015-09-20T09:18:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T14:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2015-09-20T09:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T14:18:55","slug":"loves-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Love’s Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once, she sipped from the cup we all shared \"\"<\/a>
\nNow, we gather round the same table without her
\nYet with her, in her memory
\nTable extended, chairs added
\nAn overflow crowd of lives touched
\nThis banquet is a foretaste
\nAnd even in grief, we can taste the sweetness
\nof the next cup we will share<\/p>\n

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\nThis weekend, I went to the funeral for a woman I knew at my former parish. There were a mix of people – some I knew, some I did not – all of us connected because of Cynthia and her daughter. I was asked to read one of the lessons and here is what Isaiah told us:<\/p>\n

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.<\/p>\n

The first reading at the funeral was about rejoicing at a lavish banquet. It makes you take another look at your surroundings to hear words like that. On the way into the service, I was ready to share grief with everyone else there. The sense of loss was there, but there was also a palpable sense of abundance. It was more than the number of chairs in the room (and we had to keep adding because more and more people came) and more than the cookies eaten at the reception afterwards. The abundance came from all of us together being more than the sum of our parts. That’s what love does.<\/p>\n

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