[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Richard Rohr Daily Meditation: Following Christ Crucified
Catherine Walther
catherine.walther at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 10:42:01 PDT 2022
Such a powerful reflection today.
Blessings, Catherine
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Subject: Richard Rohr Daily Meditation: Following Christ Crucified
To: Catherine Walther <catherine.walther at gmail.com>
Surrendering his life out of love for creation, Jesus somehow places
himself in solidarity with all suffering.
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Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations
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Week Fifteen: A Surrendering Love
Following Christ Crucified
*Surrendering his life on the cross out of love for all creation, Jesus
somehow places himself (and therefore God) in solidarity with all
suffering. Black Catholic theologian M. Shawn Copeland challenges those who
would follow Jesus to likewise grieve in solidarity with humanity’s
suffering through the centuries: *
To know and to follow Christ crucified is to know and love those children,
women, and men who are poor, excluded, and despised, made different and
unwelcome, lynched and crucified in our world. . . .
If we would follow Christ crucified, we would hear the echoes of ululation
and bitter weeping in Gaza and in Rafah, in Baghdad and in Beirut, in Cairo
and in Kigali. . . .
If we would follow Christ crucified, we would press to our hearts the tears
that flowed from the eyes of Cherokee, Seminole, and Choctaw children and
women and men who limped through the cold and hunger from Oklahoma to
Arkansas and Alabama and Mississippi. . . .
If we would follow Christ crucified, we would recover the tears that fell
on the floors of the camps at Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibór. . . .
If we would follow Christ crucified, we would retrieve the tears that
flowed from the eyes of children and women and men who crowded into flimsy
boats and old trucks and shipping containers to suffocate and die in front
of fences strung across the desert, at abandoned check points on the outer
edge of rural towns, and at heavily guarded borders near rivers and
waterways. . . .
If we would follow Christ crucified with attention, reverence, and
devotion, we would recognize that the tears and blood and moans of the
innocent have been absorbed into the air we breathe, have seeped into our
streams and . . . oceans, into the earth in which we plant and from which
we harvest and eat.
If we follow with attention, reverence, and devotion the moans and tears of
the brutalized and burned, raped and mutilated, enslaved and captive across
the centuries, we are led to the ground beneath the cross of the crucified
Jewish Jesus of Nazareth. . . .
If we, who would be his disciples, recall the night before he died, we are
led to a table, from a table to a garden, from a garden to a courtyard,
from a courtyard to a hill, from a hill to a grave, from a grave to life.
The table holds the self-gift of his very flesh and blood; the garden is
watered by his tears and blood; and the cross holds him, even as the One
whom he knows and loves lifts him up from the grave to release him into the
surprise of hope and life.
*[Richard here: The Paschal Mystery we honor this Holy Week cannot be made
clear for Christians without Christ’s surrendering love to God. It begins
with the Incarnation and culminates in the Resurrection—for him and for
each of us!]*
M. Shawn Copeland, *Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African
American Religious Experience* (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2018), 133,
134–135, 137.
*Image credit:* Jenna Keiper, *Leaves* (detail), 2021, photograph, New
Mexico, used with permission. Jenna Keiper, *Christ Figure from the Office
of Richard Rohr* (detail), 2021, photograph, New Mexico, used with
permission. Jenna Keiper, *Web* (detail), 2021, photograph, Washington,
used with permission. Jenna Keiper & Leslye Colvin, 2022, triptych art,
United States.
This week’s images appear in a form inspired by early Christian/Catholic
triptych art: a threefold form that tells a unified story.
*Image inspiration:* *Fallen leaves in water surrender to the cycles of
seasons. A spider’s web catches and kills a passing fly. Can we surrender
to these moments too? Death is an invitation to slip beyond the web of
knowing. What might we find if we allowed the cycle of death and
resurrection in our own lives?*
*Explore Further. . .*
- Read Richard’s Franciscan perspective
<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-fvkdhy-tlkrtkhhuj-r/> on the cross
- Learn more about this year’s theme Nothing Stands Alone
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*Story From Our Community*
*My father died July 3, 2021. I was with him as his body became cold, when
he cried out his last words, and his breath left his body. I have been a
Christian all my life yet this loss has really caused a crisis in my faith.
I no longer feel his presence. All my life I have believed in heaven,
believed in the resurrection of Jesus, but what about me? What about my
Dad? Is this all there is? Is he really gone?*
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*Prayer For Our Community*
*God, Lord of all creation, lover of life and of everything, please help us
to love in our very small way what You love infinitely and everywhere. We
thank You that we can offer just this one prayer and that will be more than
enough, because in reality every thing and every one is connected,
and nothing stands alone. To pray for one part is really to pray for the
whole, and so we do. Help us each day to stand for love, for healing, for
the good, for the diverse unity of the Body of Christ and all creation,
because we know this is what You desire: as Jesus prayed, that all may be
one. We offer our prayer together with all the holy names of God, we offer
our prayer together with Christ, our Lord. Amen.*
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