In the Enlightenment, Easter Anthem, 1787
The Lord is ris’n indeed! Hallelujah! Now is Christ risen from the dead, And become the first-fruits of them that slept. Hallelujah, and did He rise? did He rise? Hear it ye nations! hear it, Oh ye dead! He rose, He burst the bars of death And triumphed o’er the grave. Then I rose, then first humanity Triumphant passed the crystal ports of light And seized eternal youth. Man, all immortal hail, Hail heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man, Thine’s all the glory, Man’s the boundless bliss. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Dawn Mass Reflections at Corcomroe Abbey "On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry -- old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling -- and let us have the courage to begin again. Life is very short, and we are no sooner here than it is time to depart again, and we should use to the full the time that we still have. We don't realize all the good we can do. A kind, encouraging word or helping hand can bring many a person through dark valleys in their lives. We weren't put here to make money or to acquire status or reputation. We were sent here to search for the light of Easter in our hearts, and when we find it we are meant to give it away generously. May the spirit and light of this Easter morning and the special spirit and light of this abbey at Corcomroe bless us all, watch over us and protect us on our journey, open us from the darkness into the light of peace and hope and transfiguration." ~John O'Donohue yifuxero writes: Corcomroe Abbey - built 1025 - 1211 CE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcomroe_Abbey#/media/File:Corcomroe_Abbey_South_East_View_1996_08_22.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcomroe_Abbey#/media/File:Corcomroe_Abbey_South_East_View_1996_08_22.jpg ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do people light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before humanity, that they may see your good works, and glorify your maker. Meditation, in service of others.. “Maharishi explains that pure consciousness has a field-like character and is a universal field at the basis of everyone’s thought and behavior. When a sufficient number of individuals are experiencing pure consciousness during group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, the field of pure consciousness is enlivened in the entire population. This field effect positively influences the quality of consciousness in the individuals in society in much the same direction as that experienced by those practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique,” said lead author MUM Professor Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh.
