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March 23
Christ est ressuscité !
Il est vraiment ressuscité, alleluia !
Parce que Dieu a ressuscité Jésus d'entre les morts, tous les espoirs sont permis.
More than alive
Something happened on Easter Day which made Christ more alive on the streets of Jerusalem forty days after his crucifixion than on the day of His Triumphal Entry. A false report might last forty days but the church which was founded on a Risen Christ has lasted for nineteen centuries, producing generations of the race's finest characters.
-Ralph W. Sockman March 21
L’empathie et le prix à payer
« … L’empathie est l’émotion clé de la Croix. Le Christ est entré dans l’agonie du jugement mérité par l’homme pour sa désobéissance. Dans son livre La Croix de Jésus-Christ, John Stott se livre à une réflexion touchante sur l’expérience qui fut celle du Christ :
« Je suis entré maintes fois dans des temples bouddhistes en différents pays d’Asie, et j’ai pu contempler la statue de Bouddha, les jambes croisées, les mains jointes, les yeux fermés, l’esquisse d’un sourire sur les lèvres, l’air absent, totalement détaché des souffrances de ce monde. Alors, par la pensée, je revoyais cet homme abandonné sur une croix, meurtri, les mains et les pieds percés de clous, le dos lacéré, les membres écartelés, le front ensanglanté portant la marque d’une tresse d’épines, les lèvres desséchées traduisant une soif intolérable, plongé dans la nuit la plus noire, celle de l’abandon par Dieu. Voilà le Dieu qu’il me fallait ! »4. - Dr J. Wyatt : Questions de vie et de mort
(301 pages, Éd. Excelsis)
Jesus Stumbles Under the Weight of His Cross
Woodblock printing, ephemera, acrylic paint, and mat medium
By Rick Beerhorst
"I am interested in the image of Jesus stumbling under his burden. Just the idea of Jesus needing help is a powerful one. Our culture is all about independence, being able to take care of yourself without having to ask for help from any one. I have printed a woodblock image on several different pieces of ephemera. I pieced them together like a collage to reflect the way Christ's suffering is refracted by the complexity of our present culture."
La mort historique du Christ permet la résurrection
Pour le chrétien, la mort historique du Christ permet la résurrection : elle ouvre l'issue hors du temps. « Ce qui pour l'athée est victoire de la mort sur Dieu est pour le chrétien victoire de Dieu sur la mort ». Au désenchantement du monde, il offre le mystère et la lumière de l'espérance.
– Renée DUFOURT sur l’œuvre de Jean LACROIX -
http://www.girafe-info.net/jean_lacroix/lapensee.htm
 "Jesus literally 'poured out himself to death' so that he could 'render himself as a guilt offering,' 'bearing the sins of many' and thus 'justify the many.' God was 'thus pleased to crush him'. Without Jesus' death and his subsequent resurrection and ascension, the Christian is, as Paul states in 1 Corinthians 15:12—19, 'of all men most to be pitied.'
The veil of the temple, violet in this image, as in Exodus 26:1, was torn from top to bottom, demonstrating that Christ had removed the barrier between God and man by fulfilling the requirement of the law as the second Adam. The iron door behind the cross symbolizes Jesus, who used the metaphor of the door to declare that he was the only way of salvation (John 10:9). The pallid green/brown areas illustrate the power of sin and death, which is visually broken by the central passage of warm, vibrant colors descending upon the skull. The pool of water signifies an end to the enmity between Jew and Gentile who, once separated, were united when the barrier ('the Law of commandments contained in ordinances') was abolished in the flesh by Jesus Christ. He united both in the covenant of promise, 'thus establishing peace' by reconciling 'them both in one body to God through the cross.'" March 20
Images of Calvary
Contemporary Christian artists reflect on Good Friday.
During the Middle Ages, a tradition of prayer and reflection on images of the Passion formed into the Stations of the Cross, a sort of Via Dolorosa of the visual arts. This slideshow of contemporary art, although it doesn't stick to the traditional fourteen stations, can be used as a meditation on Jesus Christ's path to the Cross. Each artist's statement below the art explains how it connects to Christ's sacrifice.
Click here to view the slideshow.
The Servant
Acrylic
By Susan Govatos
"This painting was based on Jesus' last meal (Passover) with his disciples in the upper room on the night he was to be betrayed and arrested. In the Gospel of John, chapter 13, Jesus washes the disciples' feet to show them his love. He set aside his authority as their Lord and teacher and became their servant. Jesus said:
You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them (John 13:13).
The figures shown in the painting are wearing contemporary clothing, and they are faceless. Their faces could belong to you or me. We are called to daily pick up the basin and the towel in humility and wash the feet of others as servants of Christ."
March 11
Ce matin durant mon temps méditatif, en pensant aux événements de la dernière année et le deuil que je vis encore, j’étais conforté par un verset de la lettre de Paul à la communauté chrétienne de Rome.
L’auteur, Paul TOURNIER le traduit comme suit selon le sens original que je préfère aux traductions des diverses versions de la Bible.
Avec ceux qui l’aiment, Dieu collabore en tout pour leur bien.
(Paul TOURNIER, L’Homme et son lieu, page 137)
Je ne crois pas que Dieu exerce une relation de contrôle sur nous.
Je ne crois pas non plus au déterminisme encore moins à la prédestination calviniste.
Je crois à la liberté que Dieu nous donne parce que créé à son image et pour l’imager.
Je crois aussi que Dieu nous accompagne et collabore avec nous.
Mon Dieu,
Mon coeur est ouvert à toi, mon esprit est libre par toi, mon âme s’illumine à ta lumière !
Merci, Dieu, que je suis tellement plus que je serais si laissé à moi-même. Ton amour sert d’appui à ma foi, ta direction renforce ce que je crois.
Par la croissance de ma conscience de toi, ma vie est plus fructueuse : croissance d’un cœur aimant, comme ton cœur aime, croissance d’un esprit de douceur, comme ton esprit est doux, croissance de la liberté de mon âme, par le don que tu partages de ton essence libre et éternelle.
Merci, Dieu, des dons de mon coeur, mon esprit et mon âme.
Merci, je t'aime, Amen.
Dam est le premier groupe de rap palestinien. Chacun des trois membres du groupe est né et a grandi dans le ville ghetto de Lod, une ville mixte avec des habitants arabes et juifs, et qui se trouve à 20 kilomètres de Jérusalem.
DAM signifie « éternité » en arabe, « sang » en hébreu et sert d’acronyme à « Da Arabian MC’s » en anglais.
Here's the Quotation for Friday, March 7, 2008
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882, British Naturalist) March 06
Original Jesus Rocker Goes to Jesus02/28/2008
Much of the world scarcely noticed when Larry Norman passed away last Sunday at 2:45 a.m., but thousands of music makers, both Christian and non-, mourned and wept. He spent his last week dictating notes and new song ideas to his sister-in-law Kristin and his brother Charles, and much of that time laughing and praying. His last public appearance was in October in San Jose, a reunion concert of his pre-Christian band People!, which toured with The Who and had a No. 14 hit called “I Love You.” He was 60 years old, a year for each of his albums, had lived with serious heart problems since 1992, and had a defibrillator since 2001.
http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/original-jesus-rocker-goes-jesus
Larry Norman, pionnier des "Jesus Freak", dicte un ultime message avant de décéder :
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