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Who is Jesus?
What was He all about?
Inadequate Answers:
‘God and Man’
‘Messiah-Savior-Redeemer’
‘Teacher of Love and Forgiveness’
‘Fulfillment of Law & the Prophets’
‘Friend and Lover’
‘Model for Human Living’
‘Teacher of a Way of Life’
two important
things about Jesus
two ‘essentials’
first ‘essential’
connected to the Source
Jesus was intimately connected to the Source.
The Source was His Father.
second ‘essential’Jesus was totally
poured out in mission
SALVATION
connected to the Source
first ‘essential’
Jesus was intimately connected to the Source.
The Source was His Father.
Jesus: mountain stream
Jesus was like a mountain stream …
Jesus was like an artesian well ….Artesian well
Jesus was like a tree …
Like a tree
Like a battery
Jesus was like a battery …
Meaning of these metaphors?
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Meaning of metaphors?
Jesus: mountain stream in touch
Jesus was like a mountain stream …
…directly in touch with the Original Spring.
… like an artesian well,
Artesian well connected with source
he was connected with the Water Source.
… like a tree
Like a tree drinking …earth
whose roots
drink from the Water Veins beneath the earth.
Like a battery connected
Jesus … like a battery connected with the Power Source.
abba
Graphics: Jesus praying
Jesus intimately connected
Jesus was one who was intimately connected to the Source. The Source was His Father.
abba
Mk 1:35 Jesus praying
In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed. (Mk 1:35)
Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After saying farewell to them, he went up on the mountain to pray. (Mk 6:45-46)
abba
Mk 6:45-46 Jesus praying
Being connected with the Source, Jesus’ total being was fully charged with the Divine. Fully Charged with Divine
Fully charged bis graphic
The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. (Jn 14:10-11).
… there were Pharisees who had
come from every village …and the
power of the Lord (Yahweh) was with
him to heal (Lk 5: 17).
The Spirit of the Lord (Yahweh) is
upon me … to proclaim good news
to the poor, proclaim release to the captives, etc. (Lk
4:18).
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan (Mk 1:12-13)
You know the word … which was proclaimed throughout
all Judea, beginning from Galilee … how God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power;
how he went about doing good and healing all that
were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. (Acts
10:36-38)
Men of Israel, hear: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works & wonders & signs which God did through him in your
midst …(Acts 2:2).
the Breaththe Powerthe Energy
of His Father(not Jesus’ Divinity)
the Source that energized Jesus
How was Jesus connected?
silence
night-long prayer
how … ?
Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. (Lk 6:12)
Silence … all night
… silent communion
no words
presence to PRESENCE
no thoughts
just centered
just awaresilence
Jesus was bursting with divine Energy because he was in touch with the Abba, through silent communion.
Divine energy in touch silence abba
‘Jesus was never lowbat.’
Jesus--Battery
full of power.
Jesus--sponge …
Always wet and soak in God .
Robust tree … connected to the
source beneath the earth
Hesus--
Cloud … seeded with the divine essence.
Hesus--
Jesus--
Torch…Afire with
the divine!
Volcano …seething with fire
Jesus--
The First EssentialThe first essential (triptych
Praying is living
It is eating & drinking, action and rest, teachingand learning, playing andworking. Praying pervadesevery aspect of our lives.
It is the unceasing recognition that Godis wherever we are,
always inviting us to comecloser and to
celebrate the divine giftof being alive.
Mother Teresa’s Group. (Grp. 1)
- Jesus was like a mountain stream … directly in touch with the Original Spring.
Mother Ignacia’s Group. (Grp. 2)
- Jesus was like an artesian well, he was connected with the Water Source..
Pope John Paul II’s Group (Grp 3)
– Jesus was like a robust tree, whose roots drink from the Water Veins beneath the earth.
Mere Marie Anne de Tilly’s Group (Grp 4 )
– Jesus was like a battery connected with the Power Source, a battery full of charge or fully charged
with the Divine.
Father Chauvet’s Group (Grp 5)
– Jesus was like a Cloud seeded with the divine
essence.
Barbe Foucault’s Group (Grp 6)
Jesus was like a torch, afire with the divine or
… was like a volcano, seething with fire.