THE DIVINE COMEDY, From Dark Wood to Mystic Rose: A Lenten Journey with Dante Alighieri
Facilitator: Wendy Furman-Adams
Thursday evenings, March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10 & 24, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. VIA ZOOM

The glory of Him who moves all things rays forth
through all the universe, and is reflected
from each thing in proportion to its worth. . .
as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars–
by the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
These lines begin and end the third “canticle” of Dante’s famous Commedia, and they summarize all the poet has learned by the end of his mystical pilgrimage. At last, he is able to gaze at the luminous Reality of God’s eternal and universal love and to study God’s “supernal face”–visibly expressed (as Paul says in Colossians) in the human face of the cosmic Christ. The light of this Love, Dante tells us, is so radiant that no one who sees it can ever again turn away. To see it, moreover, is to be transformed from our ordinary mortal selves into the miraculous beings we were created to become.