EASTER MUSINGS - Week Two
EASTER MUSINGS - Week Two
Greetings!
As the Easter season continues on (there are seven weeks in the season of Easter) toward our celebration of Pentecost, I’d like to offer you some short reflections on “Christ Presence”. As I mentioned last week, sometimes people think “Christ’ is Jesus’ last name. Really, the phrase should say, ‘Jesus the Christ’. It’s just that ‘the’ is often dropped out. What is ‘the Christ’? Hopefully, these short meditations can help expand your understanding of Jesus the Christ - and how Christ fill everything and everywhere with ‘presence’. Richard Rohr, in his book, The Cosmic Christ, writes:
“The three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) are largely about the historical Jesus who worked miracles, who taught, who promised us a new way of seeing, a new form of life. In great part, although it is seldom pointed out, St. Paul is not talking about Jesus; Paul is taking about Christ. Paul hardly ever quotes the historical Jesus and never knew him in the flesh. Really rather shocking when you realize that his letters (and those attributed to him) are one third of the New Testament.
We take Paul as a touchstone of orthodoxy (right belief), the central, foundational teacher of Christianity — yet he hardly quotes Jesus! Something else is going on here, which has largely been off the Christian radar. Paul has largely fallen in love with ‘the Christ’, and it was Jesus who pointed him there. Most Christians still need to make the same movement, and to believe in both Jesus AND Christ.”
At this point in your own faith journey, who is Jesus for you? What is ‘the Christ’ for you? Where do you catch glimpses of the risen Christ? How does Christ live in you? That’s enough for this week!
Easter Blessings. Cindy
