Remember Me: The Good Thief and the Last Word on Repentance
*Remember Me: The Good Thief and the Last Word on Repentance*
_Movement V, Post 2 | Seeking Theosis_
🕯️ The Faces of the Fast series began on the first day of Great Lent with Adam sitting outside the gate of Paradise.
The gate had just closed behind him. He sat in the dust. He wept. And God had compassion on him.
Today, Holy Saturday, the Lenten portion of the series ends.
It ends with a man dying on a cross asking to be remembered. And being told by the man dying beside him that today he will be in Paradise.
The gate that closed on Adam is opened again. Not for a patriarch or a prophet or a person of demonstrated virtue. For a dying thief. With hours left. Asking for the most human thing in the world.
Remember me.
We began with the gate closing. We end with it opening.
That is the whole of the Gospel in the arc of a Lenten series.
The last Lenten reflection is on the blog today. Short because Holy Saturday is a day of silence. But the silence is not empty.
Tomorrow the stone moves.
Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη. Christ is RIsen. That is where all of this has been going. 🕯️
