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Let us devote 50% of our resources to installing, maintaining and upgrading the Christian operating system and no more than 50% on the applications. Is 50% too much to ask?
Jesus's flesh and blood burnt in the furnace of affliction (Isaiah 48:10) to forge a powerful weapon with which we can do battle with evil. In the furnace of affliction, Jesus forged a gentle answer to the brutal evil that we did to him. He forgave us. Our brutal evil served as the midwife who delivered Jesus’s gentle answer from the darkness into the light. The incandescence of his gentle answer illuminates the darkness of our understanding of God in a glorious burst of epiphany. His gentle answer to the brutal evil that we did to him gobsmacks us. It knocks us off our horse (Acts 9:4). His gentle answer is the strongest force on earth. It gives Christianity its magic and Jesus his charisma. The gravity of his gentle answer pulls us into a centripetal orbit around him. It is the blockbuster that changes the game. It is the catalyst of our conversion - the agent of our transformation. It shifts the paradigm. THE EDIFICE OF CHRISTIANITY IS BUILT UPON HIS ANSWER TO THE BRUTAL EVIL THAT WE DID TO HIM. HIS RESPONSE IS THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY.
The Magi saw the potential in the feeble human baby born in the manger. His potential was realized on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection where he participated in the first lopsided transaction under the new Paradigm. The signal of the new paradigm repeats itself whenever a Mass takes place. It echoes from then and there, across space and time, to us here and now. The vehicle that carries the echo is the Mass.
Jesus gave us a glimpse of what we are waiting for as he proceeded through the furnace of affliction (Isaiah 48:10) on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. He did not give us a declaration about God. He gave us a demonstration of God.
What evil will Biden do to our understanding of God? Does he plan to attack the Christian understanding of God? Does he plan to undermine it? As long as he keeps his hands off the Christian understanding of God, Christianity will survive everything else that the prognosticators predict that Biden will do.
The technical, theological jargon of the real presence is only an incidental part of the Mass. The Mass is much bigger than the real presence.