Celebrating The Holy Family

Christmas has come and with it, the ever-renewing birth of Christ Consciousness. In the Adventing series, we contemplated the role of Christ Sophia, the divine and human Wisdom in its feminine mode.

Yet, as the writings pointed out, Christ Consciousness is neither feminine nor masculine alone, but a non-binary, non-dual incarnated unity of Spirit and Creation.  There are “feminine” and “masculine” tones and overtones that dance in the endless swirl of emergent evolution that we experience as our lives.

If Mary is, in her “Fiat” – “Let it be done unto me” – the symbol of Sophia, the feminine in Christ Consciousness in the Nativity stories, then Joseph may be viewed as the symbol of Sophos, the masculine in Christ Consciousness.  

In Jesus, whom Richard Rohr likes to describe as a feminine soul in a masculine body, the fullness of Christ Consciousness is revealed and modeled for all creation for all time.

And, together, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph form the Holy Family as the model for healthy, loving, and supportive relationships among people, as well as an analog for individual growth into full Christ Consciousness. 

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