The Anglican Church of St Philip's O'Connor, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Services on Sunday: Holy Communion 8am and 10am. Wednesday 10am

Priest:(the Rev'd) Rob Lamerton. Ph 62478004, Fax 62307775, E-mail: stphil@acay.com.au
Wardens: Chris Cheah, Janine Studholme, Devin Comb Bowles

Lent Day Twenty Four


Reflecting back on yesterday's commentary on Rachel. As Jacob is on his death bed, dispensing blessings to his sons (and Ephraim and Mannaseh), he stumbles. Zornberg has a final paragraph on that passage on page 378 (of The Beginning of Desire). She writes:

"In Mahalral's reading, therefore, heroic complexity, a kind of tragic optimism, radiates from the figure of Rachel, buried 'by the way.' It is this painful radiance, I suggest, that overwhelms Jacob's memory, just at the moment when he is about to synthesize the exiled fragments of his world. The thought of Rachel becomes a mirror, reflecting, same and yet inverted, some of his own deepest dilemmas. For, if she could tolerate the diffractions of her experience, Jacob, it seems, cannot. Rachel can hold a position at the margin between reality and appearances, on the border between meaning and meaninglessness. For Jacob, the tension underlying such a position is sometimes unbearable. At the very moment of reintegration, it precipitates him into the blank."



Rachels_Tomb.jpg
http://www.visit-palestine.com/bet/places/rachel.htm
And notice with a Google search, the competing claims to this site by the road...

ST. PHILIP'S O'CONNOR PARISH CALENDAR 2004 until Easter



Lenten Calendar 2004
| Ash Wednesday | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| First Sunday in Lent | February 29th
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Second Sunday in Lent | March 7th
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| Third Sunday in Lent | March 14th
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| Fourth Sunday in Lent | March 21st
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| Fifth Sunday in Lent | March 28th
| 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Sunday of the Passion (Palm Sunday) | April 4th
HOLY WEEK
| 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Good Friday | Easter Eve |