{"id":45284,"date":"2019-01-14T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=45284"},"modified":"2019-01-30T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:28:55","slug":"o-come-instruction-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/o-come-instruction-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"O Come, Instruction Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am not one who usually subscribes to the \u201cout of the mouths of babes\u201d viewpoint. Most often, in my experience, out of the mouths of children come child-like things, which is perfectly fine\u2014it allows them to be who they are. Let me further cement my curmudgeonliness: I also find that people try to ascribe a wisdom\u2014which just isn\u2019t there\u2014to everything children say, or attempt to retrofit an awkward adult precocity into their mouths. (Commercial TV and film are among the worst offenders.) In the liturgical world, we sometimes adopt this behavior, and even make \u201ccute\u201d an objective liturgical value for children\u2014as in a recent request\/inquiry for a \u201csuper-cute\u201d (quotation marks because it is a direct quote) song for the first communion class to sing for the audience [sic].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are exceptional moments, however, when the Holy Spirit truly does burst into the world via a young tongue. I encountered such a moment during Advent, when a pastoral musician colleague related the story of preparing a class of first graders for an Advent weekday Mass:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Teacher: Who can tell me what Emmanuel means?<\/p><p>First-grade boy: It\u2019s like a book with instructions.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Teacher: That\u2019s a solid answer, not what we\u2019re talking about, but solid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IKEA-interview-cartoon-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IKEA-interview-cartoon-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IKEA-interview-cartoon-300x245-80x64.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enter\nthe Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This topic seemed particularly appropriate during the Advent\/Christmas season, when there is frequent wrestling with instructions (as in the better part of an afternoon I spent in the organ loft putting together a small three-shelf storage unit). This wrestling often leaves you\u2014OK, me\u2014feeling like maybe only Nobel laureates or Pulitzer winners can understand the instruction booklet. While it\u2019s pretty easy to relate to this particular first-grader\u2019s translation of \u201cEmmanuel,\u201d it\u2019s not likely to be used by liturgical or scriptural translators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nwe pivot from Christmastide to the Sundays of Ordinary Time (I like to think of\nthe Baptism of the Lord as a \u201cpivot\u201d or \u201chinge\u201d Sunday), we are about to\nreceive an instruction manual for what it means to become the divine Word in\nhuman flesh. As Jesus proceeds through these Sundays\u2014teaching, healing,\npreaching, and revealing the reign of God\u2014we are instructed as to what it means\nfor us to bear and reveal the Word in our own flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"543\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-Baptism-in-the-Jordan-for-blog--543x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-Baptism-in-the-Jordan-for-blog--543x400.jpg 543w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-Baptism-in-the-Jordan-for-blog--300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-Baptism-in-the-Jordan-for-blog--768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-Baptism-in-the-Jordan-for-blog--100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-Baptism-in-the-Jordan-for-blog-.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Those\nof us who practice the liturgical arts work, I believe, as translators of this\ninstruction manual. Again, if you\u2019ve encountered instructions which were not originally\nwritten in your native tongue, you know how important this work is, and how flummoxed\nwe can be by poorly-done instruction translations. (This is not meant to launch\nyet another discussion of the 2010 Missal; please don\u2019t.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nis a temptation in these post-Baptism Sundays to view our liturgical work as\nsomething of a breather between our \u201creal\u201d work during the Advent\/Christmas and\nLent\/Easter seasons. But that view does a disservice to this stretch of Sundays\nin which we should delve more deeply into the early days of Jesus\u2019 earthly\nmission, and come to view our own mission through his. Done well, the liturgies\nwe prepare during this stretch of time can be an ongoing \u201ctranslation\u201d of the\nIncarnation we have just celebrated. Our efforts should assist our fellow\ndisciples on the journey, as together we explore what it means to follow Jesus\nas he calls the first disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our\nown mission, like that of Jesus, began in baptismal waters, with the presence\nof the Spirit who Christ-ened us as children of God. Though we may have\nattained a greater number of chronological, mortal years, we never cease being children\nof God. And so the reign of God must never cease coming forth from our mouths,\nbeing enfleshed in our daily actions, until our disciple\u2019s journey here has ended.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>God names us sons and daughters, too,<\/p><p>In font and Spirit born anew.<\/p><p>In Christ we die, with Christ we rise,<\/p><p>Through Christ, we enter paradise!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Baptism of Jesus<\/em> by John Pirtle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johntpirtle.com\">http:\/\/www.johntpirtle.com<\/a>, copyright \u00a9 2018 John Pirtle, used by permission of the artist. From &#8220;Praying the Rosary Together: A Guide for Home and Classroom&#8221; by Carolyn Pirtle with artwork by John Pirtle.<br><br>\u201cTo Jordan Jesus Humbly Came\u201d (vs. 4) by Alan J. Hommerding. Copyright \u00a9 2004 World Library Publications. All rights reserved. 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