Freitag, 1. April 2016

The BODY of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ...

On our Easter-Celebration (on the 27.03.2016 I was in Fatima / Otjiwa - under the tree) we have renewed our Baptism-Decision. Maybe without any difficulties, because we are believers... we are not Thomas    [ !!! / ??? ]  Thomas is like Maria of Magdala, like the disciples on the way to Emmaus... all they are eager to see, to touch "the BODY of Jesus who is the Christ". On the other side: Jesus himself is ready to show his wounded Body - and the seeing Apostles were glad - and Thomas - after seeing the wounded Body too - became a believer like the other Apostles.
Today - as the Priest asks: "do you believe in Jesus Christ?" - nobody in the church refuses to believe with the argument: "unless I touch the wounded Body" It looks like: we are able to believe without seeing, touching...

That's a modern terrible error...   and this error has two faces:
A) The old famous error goes so: We think: Jesus lives now somewhere in Heaven, far away, beyond the sky...   from there He is the redeemer, the Son of God, the King of the World and He - from time to time - decides to act...
B) The new famous error goes so: We think: Jesus is in my Heart, very deep; the believer is meditating him, speaks to him etc...  and Jesus is somehow listening, maybe - in good condition - he becomes active...
Mr. A + Ms. B have somehow contact with Jesus, the risen Lord (in Heaven or in the Heart) but they don't need the Body of Christ"; more: they don't miss the Body. Such a "Jesus without Body" is a good imagination; not a real Reality.


Following Ev John 20 the risen Lord Jesus came to show his wounded Body! Without showing and seeing the wounded Body - there is no believe. All the Apostles like Thomas and all the disciples start to believe after they have seen Him - and that means: the BODY. Therefore it's clear: first to see the Body... then get the Holy Spirit... then you start to believe.

Today I have the same question like Maria of Magdala: "Where is the Body of Jesus Christ?" Sure not in the tomb, not among the dead...   but where? We need this wounded Body of Jesus Christ today urgently, more than ever...

For a Easter-Meditation: "I believe in the Holy Catholic Church" may be the same as:
"I believe in Jesus Christ". Your "Christian Community" (in case you have one / you live one) is for today "the wounded Body of Jesus Christ" and after you have seen, touche "your Community" you may start to believe in your Community - it means in Jesus Christ. 

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