Spiritan Magazine Volume 35 Number 4 Fall Article 1 Fall 2011 Spiritan Magazine Vol. 35 No. 4 Calendar Follow this and additional works at: https://dsc.duq.edu/spiritan-tc Recommended Citation (2011). Spiritan Magazine Vol. 35 No. 4 Calendar. Spiritan Magazine, 35 (4). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/spiritan-tc/vol35/iss4/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Spiritan Collection at Duquesne Scholarship Collection. It has been accepted for inclusion in Spiritan Magazine by an authorized editor of Duquesne Scholarship Collection. The Human and the Holy — Hand in Hand Fall 2011 / Volume 35, No. 4 Spiritan is produced by The Congregation of the Holy Ghost, TransCanada Province Editor: Fr. Patrick Fitzpatrick CSSp Design & Production: Tim Faller Design Inc. January February March April May June July August September October November December Spiritan is published four times a year by the Spiritans, The Congregation of the Holy Ghost, 121 Victoria Park Ave., Toronto, ON M4E 3S2. Tel: 416-698-2003. Fax: 416-691-8760. E-mail: [email protected]. All correspon dence and changes of address should be sent to this address. One year subscription: $10.00. Printed by PointOne Graphics Inc., Toronto. Canadian Publications Mail Agreement no. 40050389. Registration No. 09612. Postage paid at Toronto, ON. Visit our Web site at www.spiritans.com from the editor The human and the holy — hand in hand Pat Fitzpatrick CSSp esus took part in religious observances. His main interest, a listener, a challenging personality. Someone who left home however, was in people’s inner relationships with God late in life, and spent only a few years as a public personality — Jand with one another. He reassured them that God was became a public nuisance to the religious leaders, gathered a not all that far away. He offered them light in their darkness, somewhat motley crew of followers, dared to go to Jerusalem hope in their despair, courage in their fear and strength in one Passover, was arrested, tried in two kangaroo courts, their struggles. He brought God to them. sentenced to death, publicly paraded through the streets of He was an Easter person. He brought people back to life, Jerusalem to his crucifixion on Calvary, died there almost alone he raised them up, he taught them to see God in all that sur- — only one male disciple and four women followers had the rounded them — in the crops of the field, the birds of the air, courage to remain with him. They buried him close by: to all the seasons, the earth and the sky, the day and the night; in intents and purposes, that was the end of that. A foolish dream. their comings and goings, buying and selling, sowing and A nightmare ending. And yet … he haunts us still. reaping, fishing and farming, making and mending. We are at our best as a church when we see life through his We celebrate eyes: when we value the ordinary and have what theologians Whenever we celebrate Eucharist we celebrate his ongoing call a sacramental outlook on our life, our world, and other presence. We dare to believe he is among us as we listen to the people — when we “enter the world of God’s imagination.” readings, offer the bread and wine, repeat his Last Supper This year the English-speaking Catholic church fine-tunes words: “Take and eat … for this is my Body, which will be its language and some of its ritual in the way it celebrates given up for you.” “Take and drink: this is the chalice of my Mass. Not everyone agrees that we need to do this — some of blood. Do this in memory of me.” We dare to believe he the fine-tuning is further off key than before. But for better comes to us in Communion. and for worse we get an opportunity to go beyond rote recita- Then we are sent out — until we come together again: “Go tion to prayer from the heart. Will we avail of this opportunity and announce the Gospel of the Lord / Go in peace (glorifying to remember, to celebrate, to believe? the Lord by your life).” We remember We believe When John the Baptist pointed Jesus out to two of his own dis- The Eucharist is a window — through it we get a glimpse of ciples they left him to follow Jesus. Jesus turned around, saw what he was all about; we get a chance to see him in action, in both of them and asked, “What do you want?” They answered, prayer, in listening, in conversation — talking with so many “Rabbi, where do you live?” “Come and see,” he replied. Later, people — telling stories in answer to questions or to make his one of the two, Philip, found Nathanael and talked to him meaning clear — challenging, encouraging, consoling, seeing about this Jesus from Nazareth he had met. “From Nazareth?” life and lives through his eyes, getting a glimpse of how we mocked Nathanael. “Can anything good come from that place?” might be like him. Philip didn’t argue with him. He just said, “Come and see.” The Eucharist is a mirror — what we need to put right, to “Come and see.” They got to know an unusual man — not do differently, to let go, to take on. He has no body now on the typical religious man of that (or any) age. Too ordinary for earth but ours (that’s mind-blowing, isn’t it?) — so how are some, too demanding for others. Yet someone who has we supporting each other, challenging each other, comforting haunted millions of men and women, boys and girls for the last each other, nourishing each other? How do we “embody” him two thousand years. A man who railed against the religion of in our time and place, in our daily lives, in between the last his day and has been an enigma for many of his followers ever time we went to Mass and the next time? since. A man who got under the skin of the religious leaders. A May our vision of the human and the holy hand in hand man who spoke truth to Roman power. A healer, a storyteller, conjure up some possibilities. n Spiritan / Fall 2011 3 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 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