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-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00pm on Saturday and 9:30 and 12:30 on Sunday
Raised for Life
Faith in Jesus Christ and life in the communion of the Church is presented by the gospel this week as a "raised to life". In fact the gospel uses the same word for the raising of the dead girl as it does for the raising of Jesus from the dead. We see in the healing of the woman with the hemorrhage that Jesus is "power of God for life".
Is your faith experienced as resurrection, power, freedom for life? Do you need to be raised to life?
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When we encounter someone we can at times experience the power of God "leaving" our beings for the love and life of the other and that Spirit entering into the one we are encountering raising them up with God's Spirit of love thus joining in communion with them in a powerful way.
Here are appropriate words from a good current read of mine (Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ): "What is at stake is building the body of Christ in unity according to the 'new self' (Eph 4:24). For the new self, faithfulness to God is never separated from Christ Jesus, whose life and work were centered not on his own person, but inseparably on God (the Father) and others. Even more than in the paraenesis of Romans, here others are always in the believer's line of vision."
It seems to me that it is "Christ and others" that are the key to this freedom of resurrected life. One must lose oneself to the point that it is no longer "I" who lives, but Christ who lives in me (Gal2:20).
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