Saturday, May 3, 2008

Between Ascension and Pentecost

Jesus in heaven. Spirit on the way. Still in Easter season. Getting ready for mission. We are it... Well, not exactly. It is the Spirit who comes and enlivens us to be the Church, Christ's Body.

Easter as the remaking of creation... of human nature... in Christ. But now, moving toward Pentecost, we're at the point where we're about to receive that LIFE into our lives--to be enhypostasized into God's life (see V. Lossky).

The fact of what Christ has accomplished... we celebrate that during Holy Week/Easter. Now, how will our particular lives be reshaped to become a new version of it? This is what Pentecost is. The Paschal Mystery transforming us (and all of creation) into it.

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