"Seeking shelter without comfort overlooking the Star" or the paradox of Christmas.
The Invisible becomes visible. But how? God becomes man, the son of a carpenter. One would have expected better.
The Son of God born of a virgin. The Word is crashing Sinai low wail of an infant. The darkness of the night the world lights up with a new star. The silence of the child's parents and shepherds is troubled by the praise of "celestial troops of angels."
God embraces humanity
The Word is silent,
Silence sings
Night Lights.
As an adult, the child of Nazareth still cultivates paradox. He healed the mute, He commanded discretion. Before the crown offered to her, he declines the offer. A dazzling face of the Transfiguration succeeds swollen face of the crucified. Yet He knows silence the forces of evil. He raises his voice when He Clears the Temple, scribes and Pharisees, when He apostrophe, or that He teaches the crowds. He took refuge in the solitude of the mountain and appears when you least expect it.
Alerted by the second report of Bishop Dagens and in conformity with Rome is concerned that a prolonged eclipse of the Faith in the West, the Church of France launched the slogan of visibility and even challenge in contradiction with the contemporary world. Following the merger with the men and women of their time that some thought be the result of Vatican II, here the time has come to remove the plug that hid the lamp to "put on a lamp" (Mt 5 0.13 to 16).
Simple swing the pendulum of history ? Happy imitation of the alternation of thirty years of hidden life and three years of public life? Good pastoral strategy that responds to an urgent need for markers which our contemporary need? Matter of experience or education? Indeed it illuminates well as good distance from the object: neither too close nor too far. There was thus in some sort of old kitchen ceiling which thanks to a subtle mechanism of pulleys and counterweights to allow the single bulb in the room to change position depending on the intensity of light desired.
I fear that these tests, heard here or there, do not lead Christians to oppose two positions and locked in unproductive confrontations because they reduce the mystery of God made man for our infirm mental patterns. However, what we have said Christmas and Jesus shows us that he exists simultaneously in the Gospel, word usage and the use of silence, the darkness and the light radiated accepted, the cry of fright Passion and prayer whispered. In other words, God does not follow any strategy, not locked up either in words or in writing or in pictures or in the visible or invisible in or not in attitude in another. It blew all our narrow categories and that is why we find it paradoxical.
The bright light of Tabor illuminates the night of the empty tomb beckons, the pilot can illuminate the tabernacle. The landfill is not necessarily embodiment, display media is not necessarily visible, the sign does not lead necessarily writing legibility, communication is not enough to evangelism. The full glare of day can produce a deceptive gloss effect that captures the light on him. Caritas, she radiates from within day night, she is our only real visibility.
God became man ... and the whole man and all men will never say any of that God there and never see that side of his shadow as the one that touched his cloak, we just - paradoxically - by letting us cover it to become visible.
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