Visiting a Grave

A Psalm of E=MC2 Easter

Blood brother Einstein's Easter Law
delights my hopeful eye,
which wishes to never die.

For that quantum equation maintains
that thing taken to the speed of light squared
is turned into pure energy again.

My body, then field of study to sickness,
to aging and decease's cold seize with teeth,
is a companion human body of Christ
who encountered the osculation of death
upon Good Friday's consecrated cantankerous.

The lifeless thing of his once vibrant body
was carried away to the grave,
condemned to become a worm's decomposable dinner.

Yet, you lot who are Life could not stand to see
your dear's body disuse,
and so you carried out once more
your get-go and crawly human action of creation.

You reanimated the matter of his body
and moved its molecules
at more than than the speed of light,
and it was once more transformed
into the Light of Lights,
into pure eternal energy.

In your space design
zilch dies;
it only changes form,
until it finally and forever changes
into your form,
into the energy of the light of Beloved Divine.

Take promise, my heart,
be house, my feeble organized religion,
for the thing of the flesh and bone I call me
will likewise become an Einstein Easter Consequence.
From Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim by Ed Hays

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Prayer for Visiting a Grave in a Cemetery

God of Abraham and of Moses,
Lord of the Living, who visited Jesus within His grave
and filled Him with the fullness of eternal life,
hear our prayer this day
equally we come to the burying place of (name).

With reverence, nosotros visit this sacred shrine
where his/her trunk was placed
within the womb of the earth
to look the final 24-hour interval of glory.

We interruption in silence to be united with him/her.

pause for silent prayer

Lord, we have come on this pilgrimage of prayer
to keep the flame of dear live within our hearts.

As we read his/her name upon the marker-stone,
we rejoice because that name has been written for all ages
in the palm of Your divine hand.

May the jiff of creation that surrounds this grave—
in trees, grass and earth, birds and sun—
join us in prayer.

May this pilgrimage remind us of what we already know:
that nothing dies;
rather, life is simply transformed into new life.

Holy is this grave,
holy this earth that has held in gentle embrace
the bodies of all who are buried in this cemetery.

Lord,
with reverence, we get out a wreath of worship at this grave,
woven with love, adorned with memories
and with our faith in the reality
of that earthen Easter forenoon
when all the holy dead shall rise
in the splendor of Your glory.

Till that day, eternal rest to (proper name)
and to all the holy expressionless.

Amen
From Prayers for the Domestic Church past Ed Hays

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Prayer action suggestion:
Visit the grave of a loved one and go out a wreath of your love.
Shower your beloved on those who are even so with you lot in life.

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