Fully Alive in God

(Imagen de: https://um-insight.net/topics/nalini-jayasuriya/) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Hechos 4:32–35; S. 133; 1 Juan 1:1–2:2; Juan 20:19–31) ¡Dichosos los que creen sin haber visto! (Juan 20:29b) En la obra de teatro que vimos la semana pasada, la mujer que vea al Señor le pide de la mujer que no vea al Señor: “¿Viste la luz?” Y ella contesta que no vio la luz, pero está bien porque la Luz de Cristo está dentro de ella todavía. En la tradición judía y también cristiana temprano del mundo anciano, bendiciones fueron cosas dado literalmente y físicamente. Por esto fue muy importante para Jesús sanar a los enfermos físicamente en vez de solo curar sus heridas emocionales y espirituales. Para nosotros también a veces es muy importante sentir una sanación física. Y la gente que vio a Jesús resucitado sintió una bendición especial de haberlo visto en persona. De haberlo tocado en sus heridas. Para nosotros ahora puede parecer un poco desagradable, tocar la...

(This excerpt from an Easter Sermon by Saint Maximus of Turin (Sermon 53, 1-2: CCL 23, 214-216) is used in the Roman Office of Readings for the fifth Sunday of Easter with the accompanying biblical reading of Revelation 18:21-19:10) Christ is risen!    ¡Cristo esta resucitado! He has burst open the gates of hell and let the dead go free. Él ha renovado la faz de la tierra por los miembros de la iglesia ya renacidos en el santo bautismo. And Christ has made the earth blossom afresh with men [and women] brought back to life. Su Espíritu Santo ha abierto las puertas del cielo, que están bien abiertos para recibir los que se suben de la tierra. Because of Christ’s resurrection the thief ascends to paradise, the bodies of the blessed enter the holy city, and the dead are restored to the company of the living. Hay un movimiento hacia arriba en toda la creación, mientras cada elemento se sube a algo más alto. We see hell restoring its victims to the upper regions, e...

M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard Good Friday, 3.29.18 (Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34, the Passion of St John) “My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?” These are Jesus’ words in the same passion gospel that we heard today, according to Mark and Matthew. Although these specific words are not mentioned in today’s reading, we hear them all the same in Jesus’ painful passion and death. Who has not been there? Wondered in one situation or another if God has not abandoned us? And we sometimes wonder secretly if it is a lack of faith. Perish the thought, we think. That is not the way a faithful person thinks. But really it is. Because Jesus, the most literally faithful person that ever lived, got to this point. And what fully human person wouldn’t? Jesus’ was a legal public execution, designed to be painful in the extreme. And Jesus, so set and faithful on his journey, on the way he knew he needed to tread, but here we have the change. Jesus, truly powerful as the son o...

(http://frcharliehughes.blogspot.com/2011/08/) M. Campbell-Langdell+ Imagine the scene.   The songs have died down in the air.   The palms are strewn around the streets that have cooled from the heat of the day.   You can still feel the electricity of the crowd and the procession in the air. Or was it from the protests?   But anyway, Jesus is once more alone.   Jesus is alone—the coats laid down in the street for him to pass have been picked up and dusted off, coats that will turn against him so soon, so very soon. Soon the happy songs will turn to the shouts of a violent crowd.   So, alone on that quiet street, imagine him.   See our humble king as the man he is in that moment.   Before the disciples fold him back into the fellowship and the stories. There is a part he must walk alone. Sometimes we see individuals walking a hard road alone in examples during our daily lives. During Lent I have been reading Kate Bowler’s Everything Ha...

(http://frcharliehughes.blogspot.com/2011/08/) M. Campbell-Langdell+ All Santos, Oxnard Imaginen el escenario. Las canciones ya han parado.   Todavía sienten en el aire la electricidad de su momento de entrada en Jerusalén. De las protestas, posiblemente.   Jesús está solo con sus ideas diferentes, su manera diferente de ser un Mesías y rey diferente.   Jesus is alone—the coats laid down in the Street for him to pass have been picked up and dusted off, coats that will turn against him so soon, so very soon.   Pronto estará rechazado su rey, su bendito Mesías.   Las canciones van a convertir en gritos violentos.   Imagínenlo allí, solo. Vean a nuestro rey como el hombre que es en ese momento.   Sus amigos estarán con é l muy pronto, pero é l también sabe que ellos no van a poder caminar todo el viaje consigo.   There is a part he must walk alone. Sometimes we see individuals walking a hard road alone in examples during our daily liv...

(https://pixteller.com/designs/others/ for-we-are-gods-handiwork-created-in-christ-id11733) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos , Oxnard (Numbers 21:4–9; Ps. 107:1–3, 17–22; Ephesians 2:1–10; John 3:14–21) Genesis and I recently learned about the surge of homelessness in the 1930s and how high unemployment led to scores of people, both educated and uneducated, roaming the US looking for work who became known as “ho-bos.” At this time there were not even the social safety nets we have today, so homeless individuals were entirely dependent on others’ charity. While some households were friendly, caring for those wanting to do odd jobs as they could, others disdained or feared them. So they developed a secret code. A plus sign on a door meant it was a place where they could get a good meal. A hashtag warned that a security guard or policeman paid to fend off homeless people lived at a house. And a vertical line with a snake-like squiggle across it meant a place where an injure...

(https://pixteller.com/designs/others/ for-we-are-gods-handiwork-created-in-christ-id11733) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos , Oxnard (Números 21:4–9; Salmo 107:1–3, 17–22; Efesios 2:1–10; San Juan 3:14–21) Recientemente, Génesis y yo aprendimos sobre el grupo de personas que perdieron sus trabajos y estaban sin hogar después de la Gran Depresión del tiempo de los 1930 en los EEUU. En estos tiempos ni tenían el mismo apoyo del gobierno que hay ahora, así que cuando la economía fallo, mucha gente perdi ó su trabajo sin ayuda. Y tenían que caminar a otros pueblos en búsqueda de trabajo. Y, como no toda la gente fue buena con ellos, diseñaron un código especial. Una señal plus significaba que pudieron comer bien en una casa. Un hashtag o un gato significaban que había una policía o un guardia en la casa y que no fue segura. Y un una línea vertical con un garabato alrededor significaba que en esa casa ellos pudieron recibir ayuda medica. The homeless people of the 1930s had ...