In her final meditation, Theodora Hawksley reflects on a paradox of Easter: suffering and death, Resurrection and Ascension, need not be experienced in sequence, but as one event, one mystery

We had finished loading the quad bike and were ready to set off on the next leg of the journey when a man ran up holding a bucket of coconuts. He was shirtless, mostly toothless, and wild-eyed. “When you come back,” he declared, “I’ll tell you what God has revealed through Johnny Wilson, the poorest man in Monkey Mountain!”

We have not yet returned, but what God is revealing is becoming clearer. This Lent in Guyana has been a journey into the mystery of the Cross. I have understood for the first time that great insight of John’s Gospel – that Jesus’ suffering and death, Resurrection and Ascension, as recounted sequentially in the Synoptic Gospels, are rather one event, one mystery. They are the same reality – the glorification of the Son – viewed from different vantage points.