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Sometimes in preaching, the hardest part is deciding what not to say. My general rule is that the words you take out are as important as, if not more important than, the words you leave in. Indeed, I think a quick fix for most homilies would be to delete the first hundred-or-so words, which are usually just intellectual throat-clearing for the homilist—perhaps important for the writing-process, but not all that important to the homily as preached.<\/em><\/p>\n

The readings for the Sixth Sunday of Easter this year are extraordinarily\u00a0rich and yet extraordinarily simple in their expression of the Christian mystery. They tempt the preacher to want to say everything. But maybe it is possible to say everything without saying all that much. So I decided to try to say everything that needed to be said about Christianity,* and to do it in fewer than 900 words. Readers can judge (I hope with charity) for themselves how well I did.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is Christianity all about?
\nSome might be inclined
\nto answer this question
\nby reciting the creed,
\nand they would not be wrong,
\nbecause being a Christian
\ndoes involve believing certain things.
\nOthers might be inclined to answer
\nby pointing to certain moral principles,
\nand, again, they would not be wrong,
\nbecause being a Christian
\ndoes involve behaving in certain ways.
\nBut what Christianity is about at its root
\nmust be something more
\nthan a collection of beliefs and behaviors;
\nit must be a mystery that sinks its roots
\ninto the heart of life itself.<\/p>\n

This mystery, however,
\nis mysterious not because it is complicated,
\nbut because it is so simple.
\nToday\u2019s readings from sacred scripture
\nconstitute together a kind of refresher course,
\nin five simple lessons,
\nof what Christianity is all about.<\/p>\n

First, God is love.
\nThis has of course become something of a clich\u00e9,
\nso much so that if you type \u201cGod is\u2026\u201d into Google
\n\u201cGod is love\u201d comes up
\nas the second most popular search item,
\nright behind \u201cGod is good\u201d
\n(and just ahead of \u201cGod is dope\u201d and \u201cGod is dead\u201d).
\nBecause it has become something of a clich\u00e9
\nwe can forget what a revolutionary notion this was
\nin the world of antiquity
\nwhose pantheons were populated
\nby deities that were powerful and crafty,
\nbut not particularly loving.
\nYet Christianity says not only that God is loving,
\nbut that God is love itself.
\nSt. Augustine wrote that if the entire Bible
\ncontained only the words \u201cGod is love\u201d
\nwe should ask for nothing more.<\/p>\n

Second, the love that is God
\nis crucified love.
\nWe know the depth of the mystery of love
\nbecause \u201cGod sent his only Son into the world
\nso that we might have life through him.\u201d
\nThe cross of Jesus shows us
\nthat the love that gives its life for our life
\nis love that ceaselessly, relentlessly, scandalously
\npours itself out.
\nAnd it is precisely in not holding itself back,
\nnot hesitating to give itself up,
\nthat this love is \u201cexpiation for our sins\u201d\u2014
\nthat is, it is the life-giving mystery
\nthat we call God,
\nbecause there is no greater love than this.<\/p>\n

Third, we are called to friendship with the risen Jesus.
\nAs he says in our Gospel reading,
\n\u201cI call you friends\u2026
\nit was not you who chose me,
\nbut I who chose you.\u201d
\nWe are called to friendship with God
\nnot because of anything we are or do
\nbut out of the depth of love
\nthat is the divine mystery
\nrevealed in the cross.
\nAnd the resurrection of Jesus,
\nwhich we celebrate in every Eucharist,
\nbut especially in this Easter season,
\nis what makes possible
\nour ongoing friendship with him,
\nour continuous abiding in the love that is God.<\/p>\n

Fourth, we cannot love God
\nif we do not love each other.
\nAs the first letter of John puts it,
\n\u201cBeloved, let us love one another,
\nbecause love is of God.\u201d
\nWe love God
\nby loving our neighbor as Jesus loved us:
\nloving both friend and enemy,
\nlaying down our lives for one another
\nin ways dramatic and ordinary:
\nin acts of sacrifice and of gratitude,
\nin patience, honesty,
\nforbearance, and generosity,
\nfor \u201cwhoever is without love
\ndoes not know God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fifth, we live out our love
\nin the community created by the Spirit.
\nWhile we are called to a universal love
\nof both friend and enemy,
\nwe live that love from the heart of the Church.
\nAnd the Spirit, who is the divine mystery of love
\nthat shows no partiality,
\ngathers friends of Jesus together
\ninto an unlikely and motley crew of lovers.
\nAt any given place and time
\nwe have no idea what this community will look like,
\nexcept we know it will be filled with people
\nwhom we would not have chosen to love
\nif we were not friends of Jesus.
\nPeter, in our first reading,
\nwould never have chosen friendship
\nwith a Gentile like Cornelius.
\nBut the Spirit moved and there it was.
\nWho was Peter to argue with the Spirit?
\nLook around you.
\nThese are the people
\nwith whom God has called you
\ninto friendship in Christ
\nthrough the waters of baptism:
\nmen and women,
\nold and young,
\nconservative and liberal,
\ngay and straight,
\nnative and immigrant,
\ncourageous and cowardly,
\nstupid and smart,
\nhandsome and hideous,
\nsaints and sinners,
\nand every type of human animal
\nwho doesn\u2019t quite know what they are,
\nexcept they know this one thing:
\nthe God who is love has called them
\ninto his crucified love.
\nLook around you.
\nWho are we to argue with the Spirit?<\/p>\n

God is love.
\nThe love that is God is crucified love.
\nWe are called to friendship with the risen Jesus.
\nWe cannot love God if we do not love each other.
\nWe live out our love in the community created by the Spirit.
\nThat is it.
\nThat is what Christianity is all about.
\nNow believe it and live it
\nas if your life depended on it,
\nbecause it does.<\/p>\n

*OK, maybe not everything.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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