Death is a part of life not just the end of life. We are on a journey that involves letting go repeatedly, continually into the future. Despite that we reawaken. Orthodoxy needs to give way to orthopraxis. It is not so much a matter of teaching others what is right as a matter of acting in accord with what you know to be right.
The central truth of the Catholic and Christian faith is that Jesus as the Christ is the revelation of a deep love at the heart of the self-communicating God. Divinity itself away and becomes something other than God. This is not just in Jesus but in the Trinity. All of God becomes matter as we name it in order to completely infuse it with the divine. We have lost sight of this central truth because we separated mind from matter and then related matter to the ungodly.
Warped theological interpretations of the body as sinful is the root of the problem with our understanding the true union between nature and divinity. Christ is revealing God's intention to love creation. The organic nature of Christ is as the prime mover in setting right our understanding. All of nature is relational because of Christ - divine love, empowering all of creation to evolve by means of divine love. In every act of creation, divine love is incarnating itself, moving outward. God is in creation in the same way that the artist is in the art.
Every act of incarnation is an act of redemption. The gift of God's presence in the world revealed through grace. And this incarnation is not just about humanity, but the entire cosmos, known parts and unknown parts. In Christ all things find their center, in Christ all live and move and have being. A world without Christ would be devoid of this understanding of the permeation of all creation with love. Evolution is the rise of the cosmic person. The universe is one immense person being formed in love and we are part of the conscious realization of that reality.
Reflections from Ilia Delio retreat based on her new book A Hunger for
Wholeness: Soul, Space, and Transcendence.
