Sunday May 10, a Light and Photograms

Faith – day – LIGHT; seeing dawn as resurrection |

If light is not to be measured in smiling faces and safe and secure families then to what end does humanity embrace pride of place in the stream of divine goodness? Faith transforms things radically.  The dawn is light returning. Resurrection is returning to a standing state.

Hope – day – LIGHT; trusting illumination |

It is legitimate for people to hope for equity and justice in the world, even though seems to rest on the humanitarian commonwealth, on the vested interest in the global institutions.  The parade of light is not always something that we can always trust. Some people’s enlightenment includes brutal and hostility to humanity.

Love -day – LIGHT; embracing warmth |

Death is cold because the body’s heat dissipates. The fire of life goes out when the blood stops moving.  The organs stop working when oxygenated blood no longer arrives.

Death – day – LIGHT; becoming dusk’s paradox |

Light started writing remarkable sentences on the first Sunday after Christ died. You can find the Sunday photograms in John’s gospel, chapters 20 and 21.  Here is one.

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and yet she did not know that it was Jesus. (Joh 20:14)

Days and nights are central to the plot of divine intervention, but nothing of a ritual nature should be expected to stand up or stand out when the world’s light arrives.  At dusk on the full moon of Nisan approximately 2000 years (give or take 3) ago a 30-something  year-old man from Nazareth laid down his life, and since then a tomb just outside Jerusalem has become a camera with untold light.  Look how many believers there are: people who accept God’s extraordinary love gift!  Dead in the darkness of the tomb on Saturday, back to the light of life on Sunday.