<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpff0e7422yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="">Thank you. IT is <font size="3" color="#cd232c"><b style="background-color: rgb(253, 248, 105);">good</b></font> to hear from a "TRANS" person - thank YOU very much. IT DOES ME GOOD TO HEAR IT, to BREATHE IT and to BE ONE WITH IT! I can still feel the "trepidation", but not half as badly!!!!!!!! </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="">SYVIA, could this go to the person who wrote the piece? (PHOEBE CARSTENS) I don't have the <font size="3">mechanisms</font> to do it. I had a brain haemorrhage with <font size="2"><b>all</b></font> that entails. MAYBE YOU COULD <font size="3">EXPLAIN</font> IT TO ME after one of our "ZOOMS", with the people who are a "part of it all". That would be VERY GOODDD!!!!!!!!!!</div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><div class="ydpff0e7422signature" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br>Mary Lou Jorgensen-Bacher<br>Keeper of the Flame</div></div>
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On Monday, June 24, 2024 at 04:29:29 p.m. EDT, sylvia skrepichuk via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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<div>Thanks for this. Very powerful reflection. </div>
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<div>From: Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca>
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<div>Date: 2024-06-24 12:34 p.m. (GMT-05:00) </div>
<div>To: Sunday Community <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca> </div>
<div>Cc: Dean Riley <riley234@gmail.com> </div>
<div>Subject: [Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Being Surprised Out of Our Fears </div>
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<div dir="ltr">At our zoom liturgy yesterday, Jack mentioned a confrère of his… Brother Paul Baker. At the end of mass I confirmed with Jack that this is the Paul Baker I had met in the late 1990s. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">I eagerly searched Google for a phone number for the Jesuit Infirmary in Pickering and managed to have a wonderful conversation with Paul yesterday afternoon. We have sent a couple of emails messages back & forth since then. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">I
think I recall that Jack mentioned (Paul also mentioned during in our phone conversation) that they both entered the Jesuit community on the very same day!</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"> </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Paul was very interested in our Sunday zoom liturgies, however, his community at the infirmary celebrates mass at 11:15 on Sunday mornings so he will be unable to join us. I sent him the reflection prepared by Lindsay and Bill yesterday with
which he was very impressed! This morning Paul sent me another stunningly beautiful reflection on yesterday’s gospel. I have decided to share it with all of you.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Included below the reflection is a photograph that Paul sent me of himself taken in 2017… a couple of months after taking up residency in the infirmary at Pickering.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Many blessings…</div>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">Several years ago, the first time that I heard a priest mention transgender people in a homily, he stated: "I don’t understand them. Frankly, I wish they would go away.” </span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">I don’t remember his larger point, but I do recall a feeling of resigned disappointment and embarrassment. As a trans person, I already knew that many people didn’t understand me, didn’t want me in shared spaces, didn’t want to
have to think about me. I was already quite familiar with the feeling of being wished away by those who simply did not understand. </span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">But it was a renewed and deeper disappointment to be reminded of these things during Mass. It felt like the priest tapping me on the shoulder before Communion and saying, “Honestly, I would prefer it if you left.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">In the years since then, I have observed that discomfort and fear around queer and trans people has increased in secular and religious spaces. I sense not just misunderstanding, confusion, and ignorance, but a sense of real fear.
</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">W</span></i><em><span style="font-weight:400;">hat is this queerness creeping into our spaces</span><span style="font-weight:400;">?
</span><span style="font-weight:400;">Who are these people? Where are they coming from?
</span><span style="font-weight:400;">W</span><span style="font-weight:400;">hat if there’s more of
</span><span style="font-weight:400;">them</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> than there are of
</span><span style="font-weight:400;">us</span><span style="font-weight:400;">?</span></em></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">The early disciples were no strangers to fear. In today’s Gospel passage, they tremble in a storm and cry out,
</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">“</span></i><em><span style="font-weight:400;">Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”</span></em><span style="font-weight:400;"> The waters that seem to threaten to overtake them are metaphorical as well as physical:
Jesus has called them to radically transform; to change how they relate to the world and one another; and to fundamentally shift how they view themselves in relation to others, to themselves, and to God. Human beings are often afraid of change, most especially
when we are called to change ourselves. How frightening the invitation can be to change the way you have been, and to see the world around you be transformed, and to embrace it rather than run from it.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">But, as Paul reminds us in today’s second reading, this is what Jesus’ call is all about: “Whoever is in Christ is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.” Jesus renews humanity, renews creation,
and brings an awareness of how to be fully alive–and all of this requires a conversion.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">Just when we think we have a handle on what it means to be human, what it means to be created in the image of God, what it means to live well, Jesus shatters our expectations and shows us a new way. Just when we think we know God’s
creation, God creates anew. </span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">Trans people have a unique ability to remind us of this fact: that God is always exuberantly, abundantly, lovingly creating and re-creating. Perhaps, when one encounters a trans person for the first time, it can be frightening
to see a lived experience seemingly so different from one’s own. It can be overwhelming to have one’s preconceived notions about being human challenged. It can feel like a wave threatening to overtake us, and we may be tempted to cry out, to close our eyes,
to say to the one who is unfamiliar: “I wish you would just go away!”</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">But it need not be this way. Here is another lesson from queer and trans people of faith, who remain faithful and hopeful despite disappointments, hurt, and rejection: we know that our God is not asleep, that our God is not indifferent
to our suffering and our fear. Our God is awake and routinely says to the sea of our anguish, “Be still.” Whatever our fears may be—fear for our own safety or fear that we must change—our God is the One who delights in surprising us out of our fears.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">Like the disciples, let us be filled with great awe at the power of God to calm the storms of fear, uncertainty, and mistrust. Let us exist in humble awe with Job, who in today’s first reading hears God remind him that it is God
who created and commands the sea and all the earth, who authored the mysteries and powers of the universe, whose creation is beautiful in its incomprehensibility.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;">At a Pride Mass I recently attended in Boston, I once again heard a priest mention trans people in his homily. This time, however, I did not hear fear in his words. Instead, I heard awe. “Trans is a beautiful prefix,” he said.
“It means across, it means beyond. Isn’t that beautiful? And doesn’t that remind us of God, who is beyond all things?” This priest was not a disciple scrambling on the waves of fear, terrified of what the existence of trans people could mean. Instead, he seemed
to be in awe and recognition of God’s power and confounding creation—a creation which always has and always will include queer and trans people.</span></p>
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--<em>Phoebe Carstens (they/them), New Ways Ministry, June 23, 2024</em></p>
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