This blog is an on-line venue to augment our Sunday morning conversation in the front parlor of the Assumption convent for the alumni of the spiritual exercises. The word "Assumption" in the blog's title is a reference to the role that the Religious of the Assumption play in bringing us together. And "Examiner" is a reference to the role that the Examin plays in our ongoing Spiritual Exercises.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
A Oneness Created by a Giving of One's Self
Friday, August 5, 2011
Further reflections on the body given
The revelation of God in Jesus Christ is a very bodily revelation. Jesus, conceived by the Holy Spirit over two millenia ago, is the revelation of God. In his words and what he did, and in his very bodily presence among us, Christ revealed God and God's will for us. “For this I came into the world, to bear witness to the Truth,” he told Pilot.
Jesus, the revelation of God, is also, the kingdom of God -- our sharing in God's life. The effect of the revelation of God on those who live their faith in him, is to bring about the kingdom within them and among them-- a sharing in the very life of God (what Catholics have traditionally called "sanctifying grace") in the Mystical Body of Christ. This body conceived, as was the physical body and soul of Christ of Nazareth, by the Holy Spirit -- IS the kingdom of the God who shares his very life with those who give their life to him. "Those who seek to save their life, will lose it, but those who lose their life for my sake will have eternal life."
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