-- Guest Contribution --

Ever wondered how we live both in a specific time and space and beyond a specific time and space?

Calendars are well-calculated arbitrary concepts which are useful to organize our activities and rememberances. Calendars limit our understanding of the depth and vastness of life which goes beyond time and space.

Every year the period between Easter according to the Gregorian calendar and Easter according to the Julian calendar feels like a liminal space to me. Last Sunday while celebrating Easter Day according to Gregorian calendar with friends and family I kept remembering that it was Palm Sunday according to the Julian calendar, Jesus was entering Jerusalem. Today is Easter according to the Julian calendar.

I am reminded that the pattern of life, death, new life is always happening. I can observe it multiple times a day in me and around me. Every day is the life, crucifixion, and the resurrection day. Any night could be Laylatul Qadr, Passover could be honored any day, … sacred times are not limited to time as I know time.

Richard Rohr writes: 

The Divine Mind transforms all human suffering by identifying completely with the human predicament and standing in full solidarity with it from beginning to end. This is the real meaning of the crucifixion. The cross is not just a singular event. It’s a statement from God that reality has a cruciform pattern. Jesus was killed in a collision of cross-purposes, conflicting interests, and half-truths, caught between the demands of an empire and the religious establishment of his day. The cross was the price Jesus paid for living in a “mixed” world, which is both human and divine, simultaneously broken and utterly whole. - Daily Meditations, February 7th, 2019 

GC, a Guest Contributor