2024/09/30

163. The Trace of Christ, the Son of God

St Francis gazed at the crucifix of San Damiano. He perceived in it the image of the Kingdom of God, depicted inspired much by John's Gospel and the Book of Revelation. The truth of the Kingdom of God he received is still transmitted to us 800 years later. 

Jesus on the cross in San Damiano is not in agony. That is because his image suggests the Eucharist. The Eucharist gives believers the knowledge of divine informationlessness. The Eucharist is partaken of by believers, giving them the experience of union with "Christ, the Son of God" and making them experience divine informationlessness. Therefore, believers must focus on the Eucharist, detaching the taste of the bread and wine from it, tasting the tastelessness of having received the Eucharist and remembering the divine informationlessness. Hence, believers need to mobilise all their senses in receiving the Eucharist. First, it is essential to look at the Eucharist raised by the priest and declare that it is the "Christ, the Son of God", so that they can make it fixed that the divine informationlessness in the Eucharist they are about to receive is of the "Christ, the Son of God" by hearing their own voice of declaration. Then, they take the consecrated Host distributed to them, touch it with their fingers, smell it and taste it in their mouths. 

The acquisition of such special knowledge is usually done unconsciously. No one can observe it, let alone the person in question. That is why we confess to the Eucharist just before receiving it so that the "Christ, the Son of God" remains as a trace in our unconscious realm. This trace becomes alive on the path of living the daily routine, from the end of that Mass with the blessing of the dispensation to the next Mass. That is because the Holy Spirit, sent in the name of Jesus, is constantly asking believers to collaborate with him so that he can work as Christ. The Holy Spirit continues to contact the believer to become the Christ. The faint touch at that time corresponds to the trace of divine informationlessness that the believer keeps in their unconsciousness realm through Communion. That is the trace of "Christ, the Son of God." 

In the experience of responding to the Holy Spirit, who is constantly seeking to collaborate with us, only "Yes" is always realised for the believer who desires it (cf. 2 Corinthians 1:17-22). Just as we voluntarily line up for Communion and take and eat the consecrated Host given by the priest, whenever we encounter the events on the path of living the daily routine from the blessing of the dispensation to the next Mass, we remember the sensation of divine informationlessness we had when having received Communion voluntarily and direct attention towards collaborating with the Holy Spirit. Then, we will see that the action we do next is different from when we do it alone by watching the process of doing it as Jesus said, "In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you" (John 14:20). 

For us humans, born as a mass of information and living amidst information, the only way to become poor in all information is to turn our consciousness to divine informationlessness. And the memory of having collaborated with the Holy Spirit makes us realise the blessedness that is given to the little ones who accept the washing of God. God thus wants believers to live in direct collaboration with the Holy Spirit without being dependent on anyone else. 

Here, another thing that is simultaneously necessary for working with the Holy Spirit is found in the following words of Jesus: "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you" (John 16:13-14). 

To know that the Holy Spirit takes what is of Jesus and declares it to us, we need to share the worldview of Jesus Christ, like the disciples who lived with him in reality. As seen in the disciples' activities after Pentecost, they realised and spoke of the prophecies of the Hebrew Scriptures through the worldview of Jesus Christ. It did not matter that they were "uneducated, common men" (Acts 4:13). In the same way, the worldview of Jesus Christ (see diagram below), injected into our memory from Revelation, evokes a profound empathy from the inner recesses of our memory when we come into contact with the words of the New Testament, making us realise that we know the truth. Finally, the Word, the words of life, flows out of our mouths, just as happened to the disciples at that time. 

To be continued 

Maria K. M.