Pentecost 2009

The Feast as The ongoing Event of Revelation and Incarnation and Communion:
Christolgy as
discipleship and theosis,
Communio sanctorum, Communio in Sacris.

Ascension of the Lord, click to read entire post
In Himself, Jesus has raised our humanity into Heaven's Glory.
That is why the members of His Body are able to to encounter and to share in all the Mysteries of Salvation.

The Ascension, followed by and united to Pentecost, makes available to us a real life in the Way of the Incarnate Word, the Lord of Heaven and earth:
We hear the Word,
we do what the Word says,
we become the living, acting Body of the Word, the Totus Christus.

Often we hear the phrase "What would Jesus do?"
Our answer is: "He is doing now what He has ALREADY been doing all along!"
The Lord has made Himself present and acting through the Spirit in the Church, so that "what He is doing" is in what we are doing in the Spirit as the living members of His one Body.

Pentecost, click to read more, "from Ascension to Epiclesis"

Icon of St. John the Theologian
written by the hand of Heather Durka

With the Theolgian of Patmos we remember the 7 Words of the Cross, and receiving Mary as our Mother.

With St. John we too read the letters of the Apostle Paul,
who recollects us in the Life-giving Cross of Col 1.24.

In that Johannine vision
we carry within our discipleship the Victory of the Cross,
the crown of the Church's yearly liturgical pilgrimage into the New Jerusalem,
the very journey of our Life in Christ,
the mystagogy of all Salvation History,
the Revelation to the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse,
and the embodiment of Paul's Apostolic Martyrion
in and to the Catholica and "for the sake of the world":

1 Cor. 4.9-13
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

Gal. 2.20
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Gal. 6.14
But far be it from me to glory except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

In a word, we embrace the Word through the life-long, all-encompassing and all-fulfilling "Fiat!" of Mary His Mother


Coptic Icon
of
the Dormition and Ascension
of the Theotokos