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This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. {1 John 3:16} 📖🩵

[John Crowder ☩ @TheNewMystics]

Contemplation is no more an add-on to the Gospel than theology itself. Of course, many still perceive it that way. I have plenty of friends whose entire hermeneutic is governed by a Western, black-and-white opposition between grace and works, with little room for nuance. I stand firmly with Fr. Robert Capon when he writes, “Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale. …” Theology is no addition to grace but a means of understanding it. Likewise, contemplation is not an addition to the Gospel but a way of consciously inhabiting it. If every human action is myopically viewed as a religiously toxic “work,” then:
Don’t breathe, that’s a work.
Don’t pray, that’s a work.
Don’t preach, that’s a work.
And whatever you do—never go to work because that’s a work.
The problem is not action itself but viewing our actions as salvific accretions to Christ’s finished work. St. Paul--the apostle of grace--could say he “worked much harder than any of the other apostles, although it was really God’s grace at work and not me.” (1 Cor 15:10, CEV). Grace empowers a more productive life; it does not produce passivity but freedom from anxious striving. The deeper issue is performance orientation itself. Unlike verbal prayer or mental prayer, contemplation gently obliterates religious striving, because it is sheer repose, not struggle. It is the act of drinking pure grace.
Nobody is forcing us to slow down and enjoy Jesus. Two reason the Western Church is exhausted, lackluster and dry--why its spiritual senses are so dull, are: 1) many remain clueless to their union with Jesus, and 2) we were never taught how to pray. Prayer is treated as a babbling production we manufacture--a stream of words asking God to reaccomplish what he has already given in Christ.
We already run ragged in a world full of busy obligations and burdened by our own interior cares. We are veritably starving for silence. Silence is a grace to us. If some of the tools I present in (the Praxis section of the book) are not particularly helpful right now, simply glean what is useful and leave the rest for another season. Some of the exercises may resonate immediately; others may only make sense years down the road. Nevertheless, carving out regular space for silence and solitude is not optional. Wherever you are on your sojourn, be patient with yourself. Your exploration is uniquely your own. Do not approach contemplation in terms of success or failure.
- Snippet from my upcoming book "The Silence of the Word." Just opened for pre-sale this week. Details on this page: https://t.co/dXAuzeSWlA

[John Crowder ☩ @TheNewMystics]

The new book is finally here for pre-order … The Silence of the Word: Contemplation and the Mystery of Incarnation.
https://t.co/dXAuzeSWlA

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

We are included in the incarnate Son's existence with his Father. We have been given a place in this relationship… we are home.
Dr C Baxter Kruger

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

This Son not only knows the Father and shares all things with Him in abounding fellowship of the Spirit - this Son of God is also the creator of the universe. He is the one in and through whom all things were created.
Dr C Baxter Kruger

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

What is the meaning of this Son's life, death, resurrection and ascension, if not that in him we were crucified, dead, and buried, and we were raised again to new life and exalted to the Father's embrace, and creation itself was recreated in him?
Dr C Baxter Kruger

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

The Son, John tells us, became not merely human, but flesh, and flesh, biblically speaking, is a loaded word. When the Bible speaks of humanity in darkness, in rebellion and corruption and perversion, it uses the word flesh.
Dr C Baxter Kruger

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

Who else thinks about Jesus Christ every single day?

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

From eternity, we have been given a mediatory. From eternity the Father charged His own Son and named Him the mediator, the messiah, the saviour.
Dr C Baxter Kruger

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

The Bible is the only book you can read 100 times and still learn something new.

[Fr. Martin Navarro, Ob.S.A. @BVMConsolatrix]

Roman soldiers converted to Christianity knowing the penalty was death. They converted anyway.

Today, Christians are afraid of being cancelled.

[John Crowder ☩ @TheNewMystics]

“Those who think there can be a just cause for measures that gravely risk leading to the destruction of the entire human race are in the most dangerous illusion, and if they are Christian they are purely and simply arming themselves with hammer and nails, without realizing it, to crucify and deny Christ.”
- Thomas Merton

[John Crowder ☩ @TheNewMystics]

Christ is risen. We are risen. The cosmos has been made anew.

“Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.”
- Frederick Buechner

“The resurrection is not an event within history; it is the event which gives history its meaning.”
- Karl Barth

“In the resurrection, Jesus does not simply come back to life; He breaks the power of death itself.”
- T.F. Torrance

“The resurrection is not the resuscitation of a corpse; it is the explosion of a new creation.”
- Robert Capon

“Easter reveals not only Christ’s glory, but the destiny of all creation.”
- Sergei Bulgakov

“If Jesus is risen, then the future of all humanity is already determined.”
- Wolfhart Pannenberg

“Easter is the beginning of the transfiguration of all creation.”
- Vladimir Lossky

“I was always riled up by the theory of Descartes that an animal is a soulless mechanism; it seemed a downright stupid thing to say. I never liked Descartes because of that theory. But I am likewise offended at the denial of any possibility of immortality for animals. I will go further. Even the death of a tree which I loved and which I beheld could be tragic for me, and any spiritual potential that I have will be directed towards even that tree's resurrection."
- Nikolai Berdyaev

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

Jesus did not die on the cross to suffer the wrath of an angry god. Jesus died at our hands. We cursed and damned and crucified him. It was our wrath, not the Father's, that was poured out upon him on Golgotha.
Dr C Baxter Kruger

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

The Son of God becomes a human being and we damned him, we crucified him, we cursed him. Now, either the Father, Son and Spirit didn't see this coming, or there is a reconciliation and a redemption happening here that is off the charts.
Dr C Baxter Kruger.

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

The incarnate Son died, and in his death Adam died, the old man died, you died, we died. For it was no mere man who died on the cross. It was the incarnate Son, the One in whom all things exist.
Dr C Baxter Kruger

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

The union forged in Jesus, the exaltation of humanity in him to the right hand of God, is not a divine afterthought; it is the eternal foreword, the one Word of God from the beginning.
Dr C Baxter Kruger

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2026, NOTRE ANNÉE DE RENNAISSANCE 🎉🎉🎉

🔥 Qu’est-ce que t’inspire ce thème ?

#NouvelAn #BonneAnnee

[MILIS Afrique @ACADEV7]

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[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

When the Son became human, he did not cease being the One in and through whom and by whom all things exist. The connection between the Son of God and the cosmos, the universe, and the human race did not suddenly evaporate when he became a man
Dr C Baxter Kruger