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With these poems and meditations Bonnie B. Thurston continues her unsentimental journey through darkness towards light. Following the steep ascent of Holy Week from the uneasy hope and celebration of Palm Sunday, through the long stillness of Holy Saturday, and into the fragile dawn of Easter, they speak honestly of loss and exhaustion, yet remain fiercely attentive to grace breaking through the ordinary days. Written with theological depth and poetic restraint, they remain close to lived experience: grief and fatigue, waiting and watching, the costly, unremarkable work of love. Rooted in scripture and shaped by a life intentionally lived quietly, Thurston’s voice is both disciplined and compassionate. She does not seek to resolve the mystery of resurrection, but to stay with it, to listen, to endure, and to trust that love, extravagant and undeserved, is already at work. Having stepped away from an academic career for a quiet life in West Virginia, Thurston writes from the margins: attentive to silence, service, grief and the slow work of faith. This is a book for those who know that Easter is not hurried, that resurrection carries the shadow of the cross, for readers who walk Holy Week with open eyes and steady hearts, trusting that even in darkness, love is already at work. It invites us to pause, ponder, and find solace in the transformative mystery of Christ’s passion, death and resurrection.

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Author:   Bonnie B. Thurston
Publisher:   Wild Goose Publications
Imprint:   Wild Goose Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 20.00cm
ISBN:  

9781804324103

ISBN 10:   1804324108
Pages:   76
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction      7 Eve of Palm Sunday Music of Holy Week     12 Holy Week Holy Week (1)     14 Holy Week (2)     15 Horizon of Courage: Holy Week     16 Palm Sunday Waiting on the Prince of Peace     18  We Love a Parade     19 Pandemic Palm Sunday     21 What Kind of King Rides a Donkey?     22 Palm Sunday Procession     24 Maundy Thursday Maundy Thursday, Plague Year     26 Judas     27 Ego Te Absolvo     28  Go to Dark Gethsemane     29 Sad Friday The Nails     32  Prerequisite to Resurrection     33 Vigil     35 Mary, the Mother of God     36 Good Friday     37 Mother Camel     38 A Garden in the Place     39 Holy Saturday ‘… I Will Give You Rest’     42 ‘Behold, I Tell You a Mystery …’     43 Holy Saturday Vespers     45 Imperfect Worship     46 Paschal Candle     47 Easter Vigil     48 Easter Before Dawn     50  First Light     51 Refraction     52 The First Day     53 Before the Empty Tabernacle     55  Weeping, Turning, Announcing     56 Why Are You Weeping?     58 The Magdalene’s Grief     59 Easter Sunday Morning     60 Small Seeds, Easter 2024     61 Easter Is For …     62 Put Your Finger Here     63 For Exhausted Disciples     64 Aftermath Arrived, Departed, Returned     66 Living Among the Dead     67 Easter’s Shadow      68 What Wondrous Love Is This?     69 Sources and acknowledgements     73

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Bonnie B. Thurston is a poet, theologian and former Professor and Chair of New Testament who now lives quietly in West Virginia, USA. She is the author of numerous academic works, books on spirituality, and several collections of poetry. Her writing brings theological depth into close conversation with lived experience, prayer and silence.

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