Jesus rises from the dead, trampling down death by death, and yet, in all that trampling, he still bears the marks of his own being trampled-down. The risen Christ is a wounded Christ. If Christ is the Image of the Invisible God, and if seeing Jesus means seeing the Father (Jn. 14:9), we must bear it being asked, “what does it mean that the hands of the Hand of God have holes in them?” We hail Christ as the “Wounded Healer” mustn’t we pause to wonder more simply “what is a wound?” …
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So also this week when you hear it said “let us remember,” as you most certainly will hear it said often during these holy days, it means more than merely “replaying” the story of Jesus in your mind or on the stage at church. It means being drawn into the covenant enacted by the story. The Gospel of Jesus, Holy Week, is a living thing. It incorporates our stories into itself. It saves us. It heals us. In it the Spirit renews us. By it the Kingdom is re-kneaded into the dough of the world (cf. Matt. 13:33).
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