I watched Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom and Noah’s Arc: The Movie. The latter was stronger than the former.

did he lower the tariffs on china cuz he had to order more gold plastic off temu?

This must make Cuomo a changeling.

We can rage ourselves into an early grave. Or, we can seek the mercy of rest, and know there is more to rage at tomorrow.

But also tomorrow, we’ll still need to tend our gardens, our communities, and our souls.

To morph the forms of the Agnus Dei, we can seek peace and rest together. 7/7

In activist circles, rage is a constant companion, and often rightly so. But the intensity of that emotion can be exhausting.

We need a grant of rest. That is part of the mercy we seek. 6/

But here too there’s a shift. Most of the year, the Agnus Dei ends in “have mercy on us… grant us peace.” But on All Souls Day (and at funerals), we switch to “miserere nobis… dona eis requiem.” Grant them rest.

And that takes me back to rage… 5/

Curiously, the Dies Irae or Sequence is the one non-biblical part of the requiem liturgy. It comes from poem written in the 1200s.

Once we’re back into the biblical part of the liturgy, we eventually come to the Agnus Dei (my favorite): Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world… 4/

Dies Irae is also sometimes translated as day of rage or day of anger.

Much of our present existence feels like a day of rage. That rage comes to us from our abominable leaders, but their wanton injustices also spark rage within us. 3/

In Meeting for Worship today, as we heard messages about some very present evils, I was thinking about the requiem liturgy. Specifically the section entitled Dies Irae, or Day of Wrath. 2/

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