Who do YOU say Jesus is?
Who do you say God is?
That is the eternal question
we all ask ourselves. How can we
truly know who is God. It is a mystery,
an unfolding revelation that we will never completely know or understand.
So, WHO DO we say Jesus/God is? We can only use symbols, images,
words, actions, experiences to suggest the presence of a Being which is beyond
our ken.
In Hebrew scriptures God has
names such as Creator, Warrior, Rock, Nursing Mother. Jesus is called Shepherd,
Servant, Friend. Today we find
ourselves between the feasts of John the Baptist and Our Mother of Perpetual
Help. Both point to Jesus – John says, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God.’ Mary says with her eyes, ‘Behold my
Son.’ Celeste calls him the Sun, the
Wayfarer, Our Savior. There are so many
beautiful images we could use to describe God.
How do you envision God?
GOD CALLS US through our
senses. And the words we use to describe
what we experience are decidedly unearthly.
We say the smell of coffee or the taste of chocolate is heavenly, the
sight of a sunset glorious, certain music enraptures us, the embrace of lovers
moves them to ecstasy. How does God
speak to you?
Artists down through the ages
have painted with their brushed ICONS, such
as OLPH, as WINDOWS that we may glimpse the unseen God. Poets have flourished their pens to give WORDS to the ineffable name of God. We may not be artists
or poets but our lives as Redemptoristines bespeak the name of God, the name of
Jesus. Our life is a WINDOW, our life is the WORD that tells the world WHO we say
Jesus/God is. Be a WINDOW, be the WORD,
proclaim the name of God.
As woman called to know, love
and incarnate God as Redemptoristines and Associates in the Church and for the
world, let us renew our vows on this 25th of the month.
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