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Easter Sunday, Cycle B<\/em>
\nOld St. Pat\u2019s, 2018 [9:30 & 11:15]<\/em><\/p>\n

Wikipedia may not be the best theological source
\nA preacher consults
\nWhen preparing a homily for Easter.<\/p>\n

I did consult it, however
\nOn a hunch that it would report both common belief
\nand misperceptions about today\u2019s penetrating mystery.
\nI was right.
\nCommon belief & misperception starts in the opening sentence
\nwhen Wikipedia notes that this is a feast
\nthat celebrates Jesus\u2019 resurrection from the dead
\non the third day of his burial, after his crucifixion in 30 AD.<\/p>\n

My guess is that if we created a pop quiz
\nfor this or any Catholic-Christian congregation
\nand asked if that statement was true or false,
\nthat Easter celebrates Jesus\u2019 resurrection from the dead,
\nvirtually everyone \u2026 including most clergy, would say TRUE.<\/p>\n

My caveat, however, is that the statement is only minimally true.
\nIf Jesus\u2019 resurrection is the ONLY focus of this feast
\nThen we are left remembering a long past historical event,
\nthat the world could,
\nand sometimes has deemed, forgettable.<\/p>\n

In the midst of all of the flowers and music,
\nlights and decorations,
\nEaster outfits and Easter bunnies,
\nthere is something more consequential happening with this feast.<\/p>\n

We sing \u201calleluia\u201d \u2013 literally \u201cpraise God\u201d
\nnot just because Lent is over, the purple is gone
\nand we can now indulge
\nin our favorite legal vices again without guilt.<\/p>\n

We sing alleluia not just because
\nspring weather actually is upon us
\nand Loyola made the final 4.<\/p>\n

And we sing alleluia not only because in the year 30 AD
\nJesus rose from the dead
\nand then ascended to his heavenly father.<\/p>\n

Rather, we sing Alleluia because this is feast about the future,
\nnot only and essentially about the past.<\/p>\n

It is thus a mission feast
\nand thus a feast with an equal mix of risk & promise,
\nboth for God and for us.<\/p>\n

Resurrection as a risk for God?
\nYou might be wondering if I got lost in Wikipedia
\nand instead of the article on resurrection,
\nwas reading about revolution or re-districting
\nor some other overtly risky enterprise<\/p>\n

Admittedly sometimes my research takes me far afield
\nand sometimes my attention does drift .
\nBut my suggestion about resurrection as a godly risk,
\nis not because I got lost in Wikipedia.
\nRather it is from pondering the liturgies of these days
\nand considering what is missing from today\u2019s gospel.
\nAnd that, of all things,
\nis the actual resurrected Christ.<\/p>\n

Now our faith tells us that he is risen
\nand Peter announces that faith in the first reading.
\nBy why is it, on this most glorious of the Church\u2019s festivals,
\nChrist makes no appearance: there is only that empty tomb?<\/p>\n

It made me wonder if the suspension of the resurrection story
\nnot only today, but also on Good Friday
\nand Palm Sunday before that
\nmaybe suggests that it was not a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n

While we may take the resurrection for granted,
\nmaybe our presumption is not God\u2019s presumption.<\/p>\n

If suffering, crucifixion, and death were free choices of Jesus
\ndone willingly, out of love,
\nwouldn\u2019t resurrection have to have been a divine choice as well?<\/p>\n

It is an admittedly theologically edgy proposition
\nbut for me, it points to God\u2019s deadly commitment to us
\nrevealed in the very danger of resurrection.<\/p>\n

Maybe the unspoken danger of resurrection
\nis the reason we suspend revealing the resurrected Christ
\nin the gospels on Palm Sunday and Good Friday
\nand only have a hint of resurrection in Today\u2019s gospel.<\/p>\n

Maybe Jesus\u2019 three days in the tomb
\nwere not the time needed to recover from the crucifixion
\nbut the time God took to decide
\nwhether or not resurrection was actually worth it.<\/p>\n

I can almost hear the Trinity debating the issue.
\nFor example, if Jesus rose, would his detractors line up
\nto confront, abuse, and reject him again
\nor would he have to face more wayward disciples
\nmore waffling and denials from supposed followers?<\/p>\n

Was the holy triad discussion all of those who
\nwould use the resurrection story for their own advantage
\nor even as a justification for persecuting the Jews
\nor declaring a holy war on Islam?<\/p>\n

If God is all knowing and knew the things that Jesus\u2019 followers would do in his name,
\nthe abuse, the violence, the prejudice,
\nancient crusades against religious enemies,
\nContemporary crusades against the LGBTQ community,
\nand the killing of too many young black men on our streets,<\/p>\n

it is wholly miraculous to me
\nthat God not only chose to love us unto death
\nbut to love us even when threatened by resurrection.<\/p>\n

When not reading Wikipedia I am currently in the midst of quite astonishing biography of Black Elk by Joe Jackson,
\na Lakotan warrior present at the battle of little Big Horn
\nand the massacre at Wounded knee
\na Sioux medicine man
\nwho toured with Buffalo Bill Cody\u2019s Wild West Show
\nand a convert to Catholicism
\nwhose cause for canonization has officially opened.
\nWhen he was 9 years Black Elk had his first great vision
\nsome might dismiss as psychotic behavior
\nthough the great religions like Christianity
\naffirm that there are mystics who do have divine visions.<\/p>\n

These visions continued throughout his life
\nbut the most pivotal occurred when he was 19
\nand it was revealed to him that he would be a Heyoka,
\nthe most celebrated and difficult of all sacred roles<\/p>\n

A Heyoka is a kind of sacred clown,
\na contrarian, a jester, a satirist,
\nwho as a fool is free to ask difficult questions
\nto say what others are afraid to say.
\nYou might understand why I am drawn to that image.<\/p>\n

Heyoka are mirrors and teachers,
\nusing extreme behaviors to mirror others,
\nwearing clothes inside out,
\nriding backwards on their horses,
\nacting the perennial fool.
\nBut in this crazy wisdom they force others
\nto examine the craziness of their own lives,
\ntheir doubts and fears, hatreds and weakness
\nand imagine a foolish future of mutual respect and love.<\/p>\n

St. Paul has a befuddling line in his letter to the Corinthians
\nWhen he calls himself a fool for Christ
\nIt was not a phrase that has previously resonated with me.<\/p>\n

But listening to Black Elk it has dawned on me
\nOnly took about 7 decades
\nThat it wasn\u2019t Paul that was the fool \u2026 it was Jesus.
\nJesus as Heyoka.
\nClearly a contrarian to stilted traditional practices and beliefs,
\ntouching the unclean,
\nconsorting with women,
\ndisciple-ing tax collectors and outcasts,
\ndisclosing a God enamored with sinners.<\/p>\n

So disconcerting, so contrarian, so challenging.
\nThey killed him for his public foolishness.<\/p>\n

That was the risk he took in life.
\nAnd I think that was the risk he took in resurrection:<\/p>\n

Wagering that his resurrection would not vindicate the status quo.
\nNot justify the resurrection of the ordinary suspects.
\nNot excuse those unwilling to advocate.
\nTo gamble on the dreamer, the disposed, the discarded.<\/p>\n

This is the Heyoka Jesus who refuses to believe
\nthat we can be Facebooked into voting a certain way,
\nthat we can be psychographically coerced
\ninto mindless capitulation to the newest political pole,
\nthat we cannot disrupt contemporary social practices
\nbe that nationally shaming a 17-year-old shooting survivor
\npainting all immigrants as suspect and un-American
\nor treating woman as objects of amusement.<\/p>\n

And so there\u2019s the Easter oops,
\nthe resurrectional rub,
\nthe challenge of an Easter that falls on April Fools 1st
\nfor the first time in 60 years.
\nNot just an invitation into what my grandniece calls
\nEaster-fool\u2019s day, but the invitation to an Easter fools life.
\nSt. Augustine is famously quoted as saying
\nThat we are an Easter people and alleluia is our song.
\nBut as an Easter people
\nforged in the blood of the original Heyoka,
\nmaybe our real song, however,
\nis a hymn to the utter foolishness of a prankster God,
\nwho would go so far
\nas to gamble that the human race, that the baptized,
\nwould be a faithful lover and spouse.<\/p>\n

In 1941, because she was a Jew, 8 years Francine Christophe
\nwas taken to a concentration camp with her mother.
\nAs a child, she was allowed to bring some few things with her,
\na small bag with 2 or 3 small items.<\/p>\n

Her mother brought little pieces of chocolate
\nand said she would keep these
\nuntil a day when you have completely collapsed
\nAnd really need help – vraiment besoin d\u2019aide.<\/p>\n

Francine narrates how one of the women in her barracks,
\nHelene, was pregnant, and when she went into labor,
\nher mother, the barracks chief took her to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Before they left, her mother asked
\n“Souviens tu la chocolat?”
\nRemember the chocolate I was saving for you?
\n“oui Mama.”<\/p>\n

She said, if you let me,
\nI would like to give your chocolate to Helene.
\nGiving birth here will be hard
\n“Elle peut mourir” … she could die.
\nThe chocolate may help her .. “Oui Mama”<\/p>\n

The woman gave birth to a very small baby girl.
\nShe ate the chocolate … she did not die.
\nThe camp was liberated 6 months later.<\/p>\n

Many years later, Francine\u2019s own daughter asked
\nif it would have been easier for her to return to France
\nif she had psychologists or psychiatrists available to her.
\nFrancine thought this was an interesting question
\nAnd so organized a conference around the question:
\nWhat would have happened
\nif those returning from the death camps
\nwould have had the help of mental health professionals?<\/p>\n

It drew a very large crowd of survivors,
\npsychologists, psychiatrists, and others.<\/p>\n

One woman came to the stage to make a presentation
\na psychiatrist who worked and lived in Marseille.
\nBut, before her presentation, she said
\n“Je vourai demandez Francine Christophe.”
\nI would please ask Francine Christophe
\nto come to the stage, which she did.
\nThe psychiatrist reached into her pocket,
\npulled out two pieces of chocolate,
\ngave game them to Francine and said
\n“Je suis le bebe d\u2019 Helene” – I am Helene\u2019s baby<\/p>\n

The foolishness of God.
\nThose chocolates could be an instrument of the holy.
\nThat the memory of simple kindness could endure for decades.
\nThat a child\u2019s gift would sustain human life.
\nThat sweetness could emerge in midst of so much degradation.
\nThat resurrection could blossom in a death camp.<\/p>\n

Easter fool\u2019s day:
\nnot a memorial of long past events,
\nbut a commitment to the Heyoka Christ,
\nGod\u2019s eternal jester, the divine buffoon
\nwho tricked death,
\ncheated the grave,
\nduped the status quo,
\nand loved us unto death.<\/p>\n

In the face of a society in need of so much reversal,
\nbe it regarding gun violence,
\nfestering racism,
\nIslamophobia,
\npursuit of the almighty dollar,
\nor the glib dismissal of the other
\nin order to confirm our own self-worth.<\/p>\n

We are this day divinely commissioned to do the same,
\nto love even unto death
\nand so risk authentic resurrection,
\na resurrection worth something,
\nas resurrection that respects passion, betrayal
\nand even death
\nthrough Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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