Homilies
Icon of Heaven or Hell
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one.
God is One. Always has been. Being is Communion.
God desires that We become one as He is One.
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•Not alone. Touch. Reassurance. Presence. Neuroscience.
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•But then things come between us. We are Splintered. Broken. Hence Christ’s prayer.
How to Become One.
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•Historical way: power. Icon of hell. Misuse of authority.
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•New way: technology. Connectedness. Telepathy. Reinforces our selfishness. Not God’s vision. Icon of hell: connected in our falleness.
•God’s way: love. humility. charity. one grounded completely in trust (natural and assumed)
It is this life of love; living for others; the joy of trust, for which we were created (but that we constantly thwart through pride). Impossible on our own, but possible through our participation in Christ.
Fathers of the Seven Ecumenical Councils
Picture: Rublev’s Hospitality of Abraham is evocative of the Trinity. This live size version is on the eastern wall of the altar at St. Michael’s.
God desires that we become One. Our own mechanisms to bring this about (e.g. power and technology) create icons of hell; how can we do it right?
