Thursday, 11/8/12
A big difference between the Gospels and Paul’s letters is
that the Gospels always refer to Our Lord as Jesus, while in Paul’s letters he
is Christ, or sometimes Christ Jesus. We notice that Paul hardly ever referred
to Our Lord’s journeys, or his sermons, or his miracles. He related only to
Christ as he exists in heaven.
As Catholics we understand that Jesus was fully human with
needs for eating and getting rid of what he ate. As the Christ in glory he rose
a full, mysterious step above those
animal needs. Some of the present day “Jesus People” don’t seem to make such
distinctions. Their youngsters who attend our parish schools freely interchange
the words Jesus and God, speaking of Jesus creating the world in seven days.
I might be wrong in this, but it seems to me we might be slipping
into picturing Our Lord somewhere between how the “Jesus People” picture him
and how Paul pictured him. We are stuck on his human images, seeing him as the
shepherd carrying the lost lamb, seeing as the Jesus resting in Martha’s house
with Mary at his knees. We don’t imitate Paul in bonding with him as he is now.
If we boldly talked right to Christ, we’d run a better
chance of having him return the compliment.
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