We are in the Season of Easter. For those unfamiliar with
church festivals Easter is a lot like Christmas, only different. Christmas and
Easter are the two major feasts when those who call themselves Christians
actually attend church. These are followed by Mothers’ Day and any Sunday when
the children’s choir sings.
Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus and Easter
celebrates his resurrection, and both events are welcomed by women named Mary
who are full of grace. Christmas and
Easter alike call us to faith and invite us to see as united what we naturally
think of as being separate and divided: shepherds and sheep, masters and servants,
Logos/Word and speechless infant, boundlessness and embodiment, eternity and
time, the one and the many, the universal and the particular, creator and
creation, divinity and humanity, God and man.
