{"id":36319,"date":"2017-04-17T07:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T12:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=36319"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T22:08:23","slug":"ars-praedicandi-the-untamed-god-of-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/17\/ars-praedicandi-the-untamed-god-of-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars Praedicandi:<\/i> The Untamed God of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I must confess, I am often not very reflective\u00a0about my\u00a0process of homily preparation. That is\u00a0not to say that I don’t have things that I typically do, such as reading the scriptures prayerfully and\u00a0reading some commentaries, both modern historical-critical ones\u00a0as well as ancient and medieval ones. But ideas typically seem to come together I-know-not-how.\u00a0This year for the Easter Vigil, however, I felt more consciously aware of my own homily preparation process and I offer the following as a spur to others to share their own thoughts on homily preparation.<\/p>\n

I was very conscious of the fact that we were for the first time in my memory including Genesis 22—the binding of Isaac—in our readings for the Vigil and that people often find this story shocking and disturbing. So my initial thought was to somehow preach on Isaac as a type of Christ, focusing on the line, “God himself will provide the sheep for the holocaust.” This has solid patristic precedent. But as I mulled it over I found 1) I was going to run the risk of turning the Easter Vigil into a seminar on patristic exegesis and 2) the passage in the scriptures that I really felt drawn to was not from the Genesis reading, but from the Gospel: “\u201cThe guards were shaken with fear of him and became like dead men.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I reflected further on what it was that drew me to this verse, I thought of how we attempt to set guards on God, to somehow contain God, as if we want to protect ourselves from God. And why wouldn’t we want to protect ourselves from the God who appears in the twenty-second chapter of Genesis? I reflected further on how the Easter Vigil, by virtue of its disturbing scriptures (not only the binding of Isaac, but also the slaughter of the Egyptian armies in Exodus, God’s repudiation of Israel in\u00a0Ezekiel, Paul’s language of dying with Christ), its length, and its embarrassment of symbolic riches (fire, water, oil, bread and wine), seems almost by design to break down the guards of reasonableness and practicality and even morality that we set up, and open us up to a God who is\u00a0much wilder and untamed than we feel comfortable with. And\u00a0these guards must be broken down, must become like dead men if we are to experience the risen Christ.<\/p>\n

So with that in mind, I set to drafting. Key to the process was a willingness to excise some of the pearls of wisdom I felt inclined to include. The Vigil is a long liturgy with many beautiful and ancient words; \u00a0my words would only add so much before than began to take away. As Faulkner said (in an ironic echo of God’s command to Abraham), in writing you must be willing to kill your darlings. After a number of revisions the following is what resulted:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guards were shaken with fear\u2026
\nand became like dead men.\u201d<\/p>\n

We humans spend a lot of time
\ntrying to domesticate God,
\ntrying to put God on a leash,
\ntrying to bring God to heel
\nand train him not to make messes in the house.
\nWe labor to contain God within the role
\nof a therapeutic remedy for our anxieties,
\nor a metaphysical principle for our pondering,
\nor a divine sanction for our political agenda,
\nwhether of the right or of the left.
\nWe entomb God in a manageable hour on Sunday
\nand place guards on him
\nto make sure that he doesn\u2019t get out.
\nThese guards bear many names:
\nwe call them
\n\u201cwhat is reasonable,\u201d
\n\u201cwhat is practical,\u201d
\n\u201cwhat is realistic,\u201d
\n\u201cwhat is traditional,\u201d
\n\u201cwhat is up-to-date and enlightened.\u201d<\/p>\n

But on this most holy of nights
\nthese guards are shaken with fear
\nand become like dead men.
\nThis night confronts us
\nwith the God who cannot be contained
\nin our Sunday morning hour,
\nthe God who refuses to be domesticated,
\nthe God who is wild and free
\nand will not be harnessed to any of our agendas,
\nor brought to heel by what we consider
\nreasonable or practical.<\/p>\n

This wild God takes my agenda and tears it to shreds:
\ncommands Abraham to sacrifice his son,
\ndestroys the army of the Egyptians in the sea,
\npours out his fury on his chosen people,
\nscattering them among the nations.<\/p>\n

This wild God freely acts in ways
\nbeyond my capacity to imagine or hope:
\ntakes chaos and makes a world,
\ntakes slaves and makes them free,
\ntakes death and makes it life.<\/p>\n

The God of this night draws us into his wildness:
\ntaking our flesh to enliven it
\nand embracing our death to defeat it,
\nbecoming himself the sacrificed son
\nwhose offering reconciles us to God,
\ndrowning us in the waters of baptism
\nto raise us up to life again.
\nOn this night of nights,
\nGod has broken out of
\nthe one-hour, Sunday-morning tomb
\nin which we have sought to enclose him,
\nand, frankly, he has made a mess of our house.<\/p>\n

We may think that we want a God
\nwho respects our agendas,
\nwho acts in predicable and reasonable ways,
\nwho obeys the guards whom we have posted,
\nbut such a God could never be the God of Easter,
\nthe God of life and freedom.
\nSuch a God could only remain
\ntrapped within the tomb of our expectations\u2014
\nexpectations that are so narrow,
\nso paltry,
\nso tailored to our idea of who we are
\nand how the world must be
\nand how a proper God should behave.
\nBut the wild God of Easter rocks the earth
\nand breaks open the tomb.
\nThe guards we have posted,
\nshaken with fear,
\nbecome like dead men,
\nand it becomes possible to imagine the world anew,
\nto hope for things that our agenda had excluded,
\nto ask questions that we had not dared ask before.<\/p>\n

It is this wild, free, untamed God
\nwho has broken into the lives
\nof our catechumen and our candidates,
\nperhaps unasked and unexpected,
\nmaking a mess of things in ways
\nthat they may just now be beginning to suspect.
\nDuring our RCIA retreat at the beginning of Lent,
\nseveral of them commented on how much
\nJesus\u2019 words to his apostles in John\u2019s Gospel\u2014
\n\u201cIt was not you who chose me, but I who chose you\u201d\u2014
\nresonated with their experience,
\ntheir sense of surprise that they, of all people,
\nshould have been chosen by God,
\nshould find themselves here, tonight,
\nteetering on the edge of something as crazy
\nas living life as a Catholic Christian,
\nthat heritage of saints who are forgiven sinners,
\nthat vast and unruly collection of characters,
\nthat ancient family made ever new
\nby children born of water, oil, bread, and wine.<\/p>\n

For us gathered here tonight,
\nour catechumen and candidates
\nare an icon of what can happen
\nif we let God off the leash,
\nif we let the fears
\nand excuses
\nand rationalizations
\nthat we place as guards
\nat the entrance of the tomb
\nfaint away before the wildness of the risen Christ.
\nThey show us the power of the Spirit of Jesus,
\nthat blows where it will
\nand blows away our therapeutic
\nand metaphysical
\nand political agendas.
\nFor us, too, the Spirit of the one
\nwho raised Christ from the dead
\nhas sent forth tremors
\nthat have shaken with fear
\nthe guards we have placed on our lives,
\nsetting us free to live for God,
\nno longer slaves to sin and death.
\nFor Christ is risen from the dead\u2014
\nunleashed, wild, and free\u2014
\ntrampling down death by death,
\nand on those in the tomb
\nbestowing new life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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