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Sealing The Door

by 2mørVs & Jonathan Pageau

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2mørVs & Jonathan Pageau - Sealing The Door
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"They'd been so besieged in their dhimmi status that it was inevitable that they represent the door of Pentecost as closed... But to see such an image should make us weep and pray that even as we become besieged we find a way to keep the door of Pentecost open. For if we close those doors we abandon the world to it's fragmentation..."
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Credits:
📖 Spoken Word by Jonathan Pageau
🎶 Mix, Mastering & Visuals by Neochron
✂ Production, Arrangement & Instrumentation by 2mørVs

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So, as we face the rising chaos, as we face the zombies
We recall the words of the Psalmist
"I am surrounded by my enemies who are like lions
Hungry for human flesh [Ps 57:4]"
The immediate danger is that we become afraid
Like St. Peter, walking on the waters.
There's a trope in zombie stories
According to which no matter how bad the situation is
No matter how bad the zombies try to get in
The true danger lies within
The true danger lies in how the human group
Shuts themself off and completely isolates themself
And become pathological in their isolation
The fear of facing the possibility of the flood is to think that
As in the story of Noah, the door of the Church
Must be closed and sealed shut
Maybe we can get together and isolate ourselves completely
I mean it's tempting, isn't it? And we've heard
Some intimations of that tendency recently
But Christ promised us
The gates of hell will not prevail on the doors of the Church
And I'm not saying here there isn't a time
To seal the door of the Church. Obviously that's what we do
At least symbolically, after the exit of the catechumens
We should and must protect our mysteries
In fact it rather seems sometimes that we've been sheepish in doing so
I want to show you something
Once I encountered an image of Pentecost
From a medieval Coptic church
Can you see the difference?
It's the first time I saw an icon of Pentecost
Where the door was closed
And it disturbed me profoundly to see such an image
And it took time before I understood
Why such an image even would come into existence
And I realized, at least I speculated
That the Copts had become so beset on all sides by their opponents
Had been so besieged in their dhimmi status
That it was inevitable that they represent the door of Pentecost as closed
And it's food for thought
But to see such an image should make us weep and pray
That even as we become besieged we find a way
To keep the door of Pentecost open
For if we close those doors
We abandon the world to it's fragmentation

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released May 16, 2020
📖 Spoken Word & Cover Icon by Jonathan Pageau
🎶 Mix, Mastering & Visuals by Neochron
✂ Production, Arrangement & Instrumentation by 2mørVs

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