As we gather and celebrate this Easter, we do so as a community of witnesses. We have encountered Jesus not only in the bright light of midday, but in the confusion before dawn. We have encountered him in the context of our daily lives, in moments of sorrow and in moments of joy.
We also gather as a community of testimony, as those witnesses who now proclaim the Good News.
As we enter into this season of rejoicing, how can we create space for the practices of witnessing and testifying in our daily lives? How might these practices help us to attend to our confusion, our suffering, and our wounds in the context of our daily lives, in lo cotidiano? And how might these practices help us to hear Jesus’s joyful call, beckoning us to see the face of the Lord crucified and risen who has been with us all along?
--Nichole Flores
Image source: Fra Angelico, St. Peter Preaching in the Presence of St. Mark (ca. 1433), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fra_Angelico_-_St_Peter_Preaching_in_the_Presence_of_St_Mark_-_WGA00464.jpg
Quotation source
Quotation source
No comments:
Post a Comment