Carla Mae's Blog

The Easter glow has moved … from an outer experience then to an inward reality now. He is no longer where he once was. He is now where we are. We shine because he has come to dwell in us by the Holy Spirit.   But we often feel we have lost the glow. In fact, we feel pretty dull. Yet feelings are not facts…we are learning that. So the Church takes us by the hand and leads us into Ordinary Time by assuring us we will have food for the journey…his very self.   This month opens with the great celebration of Corpus Christi, the Body of Christ. We celebrate the wonder of the Lord’s genius. “I am going to my Father…yet I will be with you always…” and he means it. It is his final step down into time/space. He becomes our food. First step…he presses our humanness with all its brokenness to himself. Second step…he dives like an Olympic diver into the cesspool of our sin and violence. Third step…he bounces up out of death to show us it will not hold us either. Then the final ...

As we move toward our Business Chapter, we continue to pray, “Holy Mystery evolving, energize our response.” Have you wondered what these words really mean? Let’s check it out. The Holy Mystery is God, right? Not so fast. God doesn’t evolve . God is the hiddenness that calls forth evolution into the future. God is the Word in whom all things come to be. God is the Spirit of self-giving love in which all things unfold into the future. God is love-hidden; God is love-expressed; God is love-given as gift. So what is this evolving all about? What’s evolving? In an amazing act of self-giving love, the Mystery we call “God” burst out of its dance of love to create the angelic and material world. This outburst of love was a single Word, and “all that came to be, came to be in him, and without him was made nothing that was made.” On the science side this breath of love, this outburst, is called “the big bang.” Atoms met and kissed and basic elements appeared. We finally appeared, m...

With the coming of May, we are still in the Easter glow. We appear in the darkness of human struggle like some human firefly. Faith lights us up and yes, by faith we can see in the dark.   Easter calls us back to our baptism, when we shed our mourning clothes and he claimed us as his own. But we forget. So the Church in these Sundays keeps reminding us of our primary intimacy: God-with-skin-on, as the pre-schoolers say. He is the one by whom we are saved.   We are identified as those who “know” him…and he “knows” us. He marries us in the wedding chamber of the virgin’s womb. Then he hob-nobs with us, and we can’t quite figure him out. Then he goes to the depth of our violence toward one another…only to let it swallow him. But he is a poison-pill, for in destroying him physically, death itself is destroyed. It splits open, and we get a peek at what comes after…for he is the Truth that loves, and he cannot be destroyed. But wonder of wonders, he show us that this i...