august 12, 2005
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today i'm leaving to fly to new orleans! i'm entering the jesuits order of the catholic church in two days. it's very exciting, very sad (leaving my friends and fam behind), and very scary all at once! fortunately my trust in God and my friends makes it easier.
i went to the getty yesterday and looked at a collection of rembrandt's works on the disciples. it was really interesting to see his works 'in person', and also to read about the traditions behind all of the disciples, esp the way they died, and the symbol of their martyrdoms which they hold in the pictures.
i look fwd to many more posts here. i hope you all enjoy reading them. mostly, it's just my diary, and so i don't expect it to be terribly fascinating for most of you. but feel free to check in whenever you want.
i went to the church (one of the oldest in L.A.) across the street from Olvera yesterday. i was very happy to find out that i was 20 min early for mass - so i stayed for it. i could follow most of it, because even though it was entirely in Spanish, the priest was a gringo :) and so he spoke very slowly and deliberately with a caucasian accent, and so i was able to make out most of what he said, even the jokes.
the feast was on something about Jesus's coming into the world to save us, and it made me wonder something. this is kinda ... philosophical, so if you don't get into that, maybe skip this bit. :) but i wondered that... since Jesus is eternal, and since we actually participate in His passion when we experience the sacrifice of the Eucharist (when we go to mass, we are really THERE with Jesus when He died for us), it got me to wondering if the entire life of Christ is not eternally present to us, as well. in other words, we think of Jesus as being an adult "now", in heaven with the Father. but is He not also a babe in the manger for all eternity? is He not also proclaiming the kingdom of God among us forever? is He not also healing us and teaching us and bringing us closer to Himself and the Father for all time?
we all experience the sensation of 'being there' when we remember something vividly. like we're back in time. i suppose that God has perfect memory, and i wonder if this means that His memory IS HISTORY, and eternally present to Him (and possibly to us, one day) and that at any time we can worship Christ as a teen, or at the wedding in Caana, or resurrected, or asking His impossible questions in the Temple as a child. i wonder....
today i'm leaving to fly to new orleans! i'm entering the jesuits order of the catholic church in two days. it's very exciting, very sad (leaving my friends and fam behind), and very scary all at once! fortunately my trust in God and my friends makes it easier.
i went to the getty yesterday and looked at a collection of rembrandt's works on the disciples. it was really interesting to see his works 'in person', and also to read about the traditions behind all of the disciples, esp the way they died, and the symbol of their martyrdoms which they hold in the pictures.
i look fwd to many more posts here. i hope you all enjoy reading them. mostly, it's just my diary, and so i don't expect it to be terribly fascinating for most of you. but feel free to check in whenever you want.
i went to the church (one of the oldest in L.A.) across the street from Olvera yesterday. i was very happy to find out that i was 20 min early for mass - so i stayed for it. i could follow most of it, because even though it was entirely in Spanish, the priest was a gringo :) and so he spoke very slowly and deliberately with a caucasian accent, and so i was able to make out most of what he said, even the jokes.
the feast was on something about Jesus's coming into the world to save us, and it made me wonder something. this is kinda ... philosophical, so if you don't get into that, maybe skip this bit. :) but i wondered that... since Jesus is eternal, and since we actually participate in His passion when we experience the sacrifice of the Eucharist (when we go to mass, we are really THERE with Jesus when He died for us), it got me to wondering if the entire life of Christ is not eternally present to us, as well. in other words, we think of Jesus as being an adult "now", in heaven with the Father. but is He not also a babe in the manger for all eternity? is He not also proclaiming the kingdom of God among us forever? is He not also healing us and teaching us and bringing us closer to Himself and the Father for all time?
we all experience the sensation of 'being there' when we remember something vividly. like we're back in time. i suppose that God has perfect memory, and i wonder if this means that His memory IS HISTORY, and eternally present to Him (and possibly to us, one day) and that at any time we can worship Christ as a teen, or at the wedding in Caana, or resurrected, or asking His impossible questions in the Temple as a child. i wonder....
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