“Jesus is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!”
Really?
For many persons, their answer to that sincere question determines whether they consider themselves “Christian” or not. Either we believe that the resurrection of Jesus from the dead was historical fact or it is superstitious fiction. Or perhaps we simply do not care one way or another.
Read More“It is finished.”
Uttering his last words, perhaps barely a whisper, Jesus released his last breath and died.
His struggle subsided; pain ceased; consciousness extinguished.
Jesus was dead.
He was taken down from the cross, and his body was hurriedly and quickly entombed before the beginning of Sabbath. Jesus felt nothing, thought nothing, was no-thing.
Holy Saturday follows the crucifixion of Good Friday, just as the existential torpor of death follows the bodily struggle of dying.
Read MoreAs the most solemn day in the Christian year, Good Friday commemorates the unjust trial and horrific crucifixion of Jesus.
Read MoreMaundy Thursday is primarily known for the “Last Supper”, when Jesus celebrated his last Passover with the disciples. In the years that followed, this commonplace act of sharing a meal developed into the most defining ritual in Christianity, known also as the Eucharist and Communion.
Read MoreWe move into Holy Week, looking through the Passion of Jesus into what might be revealed of our own Christophany, in which the Christic unity of ourselves and God is ultimately revealed in Easter resurrection.
In Jesus’ Passion Story, we witness Jesus living the truth of who he truly is, suffering lesser stories of identity, fear, and abandonment. We accompany him until all is released, dead and buried.
How will we be called this week to dwell more deeply in our true essence, surrender our lesser stories, and lie dormant in our true being until we are called to spring to new life?
How will we die to what is false and abide in true essence? How will the tomb’s emptiness generate life anew?
Read MoreThis week, we invite you …
Every time we tell our story, it is new. There are elements we feel compelled to include, and others we feel ready to let go of or go deeper. Telling our story always includes releasing lesser stories and embracing new ways of understanding our journey.
Read MoreThis week, we invite you to tell your origin story of divine vocation. Or, in other words, the story of the ways you’ve been called in your life.
How has God summoned you to be and to move throughout your years?
How have you received the “true names” of your most essential being—the names of your soul?
What is the deeper spiritual story of your life?
Read MoreIn this series, we have been exploring our call to WeCreating, which is the invitation to step more fully into our participation in our divine nature—to be creators together of the future in loving evolution. This is also what we are calling the next phase of growth for ICN, moving from the Founding Stage to the WeCreating Stage.
The energy and capacity for this comes from our divine vitality, which is our essential life force enlivening us with the love that is the deep force of evolution. Our motivation and will then springs from a greater calling than our own desires, as we are filled with divine inspiration for sacred possibilities. Our divine vocation is then discerned, inhabited, and integrated more into our life as we better understand who we truly are and how that expresses and speaks from our deepest being.
Ways of discernment, integration, and inhabiting is our invitation of becoming this week.
Read More“In taking up our divine agency, if we truly believe and experience ourselves as participants in the divine nature, then we will increasingly feel more and more compelled from our divine source to do what God does—create in love.”
Read MorePractices to help us move in our evolving faith journey.
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