Why Weepest Thou?

by Amina Miriam, voice and harmonium

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4th Station of the Rose Cross - Lamentation

40:3 Now on the first day of the week, Miryam the Migdalah went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb and saw the stone taken away from the entrance.
40: 4 Stooping and looking in, she saw that the tomb was empty and the linen cloths scattered where the body had been laid. Yet she did not enter in, but remained standing outside at the tomb, weeping. And hearing a noise, she turned around and saw a figure standing close by. Because of her weeping, she did not know that it was Yeshua.
40: 5 (in part) Then Yeshua said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”

Many of the monastic traditions have Mary Magdalene as their patron saint, and one of the things they use as a form of spiritual guidance is what they call the "chrism," or gift, of tears. The Magdalene has been associated with tears since the very beginning of the Christian tradition. In the Biblical stories, we are told that she wept over her brother Lazarus's death, and that she mistook Jesus for the gardener on Easter because her eyes were filled with tears. Rather than criticizing Mary for her emotion, Jesus is in profound sympathy with her. In fact, we are told in the Gospel of John that in response to her grief over Lazarus, "Jesus wept" himself.

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Why weepest thou?
Whom seeketh thou?
Miryam

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released August 22, 2023
Music - ©Amina Miriam McMakin, August 2022; rev. April 2023
Lyrics from the Gospel of the Beloved Companion by Jehanne de Quillan, ©2010

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Amina Linda McMakin is a certified leader and mentor/ teacher for the Dances of Universal Peace, and an ordained interfaith minister (Cherag). In the 2008 Easter season, Amina began composing a cycle of dances inspired by the Gnostic Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Amina has published three booklets and CDs of dance movements and music, and composes musical chants inspired by the sayings of Mary. ... more

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