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The reflection of Theologos yesterday has been eating away at me. On
the one hand I find what Nathanael writes hard to penetrate. His is not
easy "bed-time reading" but something one almost needs to steel
oneself to engage with.
 For
our fledgling publication though I am deeply grateful to have a priest
who has been prepared to come down out of the pulpit and engage in the
conversations that go on in the internet. I've long wanted to encourage
much more of that. I also want this discussion forum to have an international
focus as that was one of the unexpected, and deeply rewarding, aspects
of all those lessons we learned from the CathNews discussion community
when it was operating at its very best.
While it has been relatively easy to attract input from North America
we have always struggled to attract a sustained input from Europe. I value
the participation of Nathanael then both because he is a priest and because
his perspective is coming from the European heartland that lifted Christianity
from being a Middle Eastern religious sect into a system of theology,
philosophy and action that literally did "change the world".
I have to confess it was a struggle last night finding ways, through graphics,
layout and by the few lines that an editor can write as an introduction
to make what Nathanael was writing "sing" in a communication
sense. At heart though, I find I do have a deep empathy for the picture
of who God is and how we can relate to God that he was seeking to articulate.
For further reflection today I would like to present in audio visual form
a short reflection I came across yesterday on one of the other spirituality
lists I subscribe to. It is entitled The Three
Faces of God and offers a challengingly different perspective
on the meaning of Trinity but one that I also find extends and deepens
the meaning of the more orthodox interpretations of this Mystery that
lies at the focus of my life.
What I also like about it is that it seems a sort of coda to what Nathanael
was writing last night. He wrote of this "gift or spirit of God"
at the core of his life as the One who knows more about us than even
we can know of ourselves. He also conveyed this sense of the active
agency sense God plays "during those momentous decisions"
that we all have to traverse in life that lead each of us "becoming
all that each of us is".
Anyway, quietly sit back for three minutes and enjoy this short audio
visual meditation on the three faces of God...
Credits:
Words of the Reflection: Barbara Zielinski, www.extendedgrace.org
Voices: Amanda McKenna & Brian Coyne
Music: Sample from Antiphon Trk 2 – O frondens virga
(Hildegard von Bingen) Meditative Music Across Ten Centuries
Photos: Orion Nebula, NASA;
Stations of the Cross at UNDA Fremantle, Brian Coyne;
Sunflower, mterraza, www.sxc.hu
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