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Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.
Dom Aelred Watkin (1918-1997) was a wise and respected Head Master of Downside from 1962 to 1975.
Dom Aelred wrote little, preferring to communicate with a live audience, so “Resurrection is Now” is a rare opportunity to benefit from his understanding. A learned man, Dom Aelred nevertheless wears his learning lightly, and the reader will find something enlightening on almost every page.From the opening
“All, even the most superficial, have at times felt that there is something ‘other’, something ‘further’, something ‘beyond’ ordinary experience; have had the feeling that the whole of what we are or would be is not realised in the situation in which we find ourselves; have come to the conviction that 'more' and 'better' exist beyond what we have experienced hitherto. Just as children in the murmur of a shell held up to the ear listen to the swell and surge of the sea, so we, from time to time, seem to catch echoes and intimations of a life, a vigour and a meaning which exist beyond familiar sights and sounds. Even in ecstatic happiness we sense that there is something more, something not yet attained; in sorrow we are aware poignantly of so much that apparently has been held from us….”
Dom Aelred wrote little, preferring to communicate with a live audience, so “Resurrection is Now” is a rare opportunity to benefit from his understanding. A learned man, Dom Aelred nevertheless wears his learning lightly, and the reader will find something enlightening on almost every page.From the opening
“All, even the most superficial, have at times felt that there is something ‘other’, something ‘further’, something ‘beyond’ ordinary experience; have had the feeling that the whole of what we are or would be is not realised in the situation in which we find ourselves; have come to the conviction that 'more' and 'better' exist beyond what we have experienced hitherto. Just as children in the murmur of a shell held up to the ear listen to the swell and surge of the sea, so we, from time to time, seem to catch echoes and intimations of a life, a vigour and a meaning which exist beyond familiar sights and sounds. Even in ecstatic happiness we sense that there is something more, something not yet attained; in sorrow we are aware poignantly of so much that apparently has been held from us….”
90 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 19, 2023
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