+ SACRED SILENCE
Can someone teach me about myself? Can someone teach me how to recognize Christ present here and now? Can someone teach me what it actually looks like to follow (adhere to his Presence), and not just reduce this following to morals? We won’t reduce the experience of Christ to sentimentalism or emotions. Jesus is just an idea if I can’t point to my own lived experience of him. And an idea or emotions or even a lived experience of him will just blow away in a week, if I am not sustained by an experience of him in his Body, this New Community I feel I belong too. “Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day. They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their property and possessions and divide them among all according to each one’s need. Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes. They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God and enjoying favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved (Acts 2:41-47).”