Reflection: Anger, the enemy of life and Christian liturgy

A very thoughtful and funny meditation from Fr Euan Marley OP, on anger, and its absence from the Resurrection. (He has now had the operation he refers to here and is doing well - thanks everyone all for their prayers).

Words are important to Dominicans, as expressions of the meaning of the creation. I would like to speak of one derivation of a word which I came across recently, the derivation of the word 'Wraith'. That is an old word, 'wraith, a kind of ghost of spirit which represents evil. In The Lord of the Rings, there are monsters, the nine black riders, who were human beings who had received rings from the Dark Lord Sauron, which had preserved their life by turning them into wraiths. Indeed they try to turn Frodo, the hobbit, the hero of the book into a wraith like themselves, stabbing him with a morgul knife, when he has made himself vulnerable to this by putting on the One ring in their presence. You need to read the book to understand this.

To read on, see: www.blackfriarscambridge.org.uk/2020/04/16/anger-the-enemy-of-life-and-christian-liturgy/?