{"id":47022,"date":"2019-04-14T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=47022"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:50:19","slug":"what-stories-shape-us-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/14\/what-stories-shape-us-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What Stories Shape us This Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we once again start down\nthe path of Holy Week, it is a good opportunity to ask ourselves what\nassumptions we bring along with us.  What\nnarratives are shaping the ways in which we hear these readings and experience the\nliturgies? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These narratives are often operating\nin the background in ways that we may or may not notice. They shape the\ntheology and the practice of our communities in all kinds of ways that reinforce\nthemselves over time and through repetition. \nWe can easily approach the well-known story of this week without being\naware of the ways that they shape our experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Narratives Must be\nRejected<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Gothic Statues “Ecclessia” and “Synagogue” from Strasbourg Cathedral, original gothic sculptures in Mus\u00e9e de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As one clear example of a\nnarrative frame that we have rightly learned to reject, for much of Christian\nhistory, the story of Holy Week was told in terms of an supersessionist and  anti-Jewish narrative. We told ourselves that in\nthese stories the Jewish covenant came to its end and was replaced by the new\ncovenant in Jesus\u2019 blood. This narrative was reinforced through preaching and\nart (like the well-known medieval artistic trope of \u201cchurch and synagogue\u201d in\nwhich the church is young, beautiful and crowned while the synagogue is blind\nand rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These ideas built on aspects\nof the Gospel narrative in various ways, and was further reinforced in official\ntexts of the liturgy and in preaching. Over time the assumption that this was\nwhat the Gospels had to mean became more and more fixed in the European\nChristian imagination. Despite some major improvements in both official\ntheology<\/a> and liturgical texts, Christians are often still unaware of how\ndeeply these tropes are fixed in our inherited imagination.  Their now-buried history still sends up shoots\nthat we need to be careful to prune away lest they re-infect our understandings\nof these central events of the Gospel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Narratives to Notice<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Other narrative structures\nare not dangerous in the same ways that the supersessionist story is.  But we still do well to notice when they are\nactive and attend to whether they are becoming overly deterministic of our\nreadings and our experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah, Holy Jesus!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sagtomvCjfE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One standard way of\napproaching Holy Week is to meditate on the suffering of the Beloved. Much of\nour beloved music takes this tack. Consider Bach\u2019s St. Matthew Passion, with\nits series of arias, chorales, and choruses, meditating on the love between the\nsoul and Jesus. The listener is invited to adore, to wonder. The love\ndemonstrated by Jesus for me is a central concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is much to be\nappreciated here; not least the wealth of musical and other artistic outpouring\nthat this narrative has produced. But there are some things to be attentive to.\nThe emphasis is often on the individual, rather than the community.  The implications of Jesus\u2019s actions can sometimes\nbe reduced to an other-worldly salvation which loses sight of Jesus\u2019s own\npreaching about the kingdom. Gratitude and horror may not give way to the\nneeded response to take up the cross and follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus, Holy Warrior<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/-38QjAD3p8c?t=85\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another narrative we have inherited\nis that of Jesus as the holy warrior battling sin, death, and the devil on our\nbehalf. We can think of the medieval passion plays or their very modern  reinterpretation in Mel Gibson\u2019s The\nPassion of the Christ<\/em>. In this story, the Christ we meet is fully aware of\nall the implications of his mission and goes forth to do battle. He fulfills\nthe requirements laid down by his Father and either tricks the Devil into\nlosing, or overcomes the Father\u2019s wrath (or both.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here again, there is much\nthat has affected how we tell and receive our Christian story. It has led to a\npowerful sense of Jesus\u2019s divinity. And also to the rightful insistence that\nsalvation is a  gift that none of us can\never earn. And yet, it also can foster either an image of the devil as God\u2019s equal-and-opposite,\nor of the Father as a vengeful God in need of blood and revenge. In our\ncontemporary versions, it can turn Jesus into a superhero who conquers through superior\nmight. It tends to hide central pieces of the gospel story from us, such Paul\u2019s\ninsistence that Christ\u2019s salvific action proceeded from a mind that \u201cdid not\nregard equality with God something to be grasped\u201d (Phil 2:6<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Narrative to\nConsider<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

While I was listening to\nLuke\u2019s Gospel this morning at Mass, it struck me just how often Luke speaks about\nthe Reign of God in the\nGospels appointed for today<\/a>. Jesus is greeted by the crowds: \u201cBlessed is\nthe king who comes in the name of the Lord.\u201d At the Passover, he speaks of its fulfillment\nin the Kingdom of God, before having to once again describe what leadership in\nthat reign looks like <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them <\/p>

and those in authority over them are addressed as ‘Benefactors’; <\/p>

but among you it shall not be so.<\/p>

Rather, let the greatest among you be as the youngest, <\/p>

and the leader as the servant.<\/p>Luke 22:24-27 (NABRE)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After telling the disciples that they will need swords, they repair to the Mount of Olives. And when the disciples use the swords he told them to bring, he stops them from fighting and heals the one act of violence they have managed to inflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Luke\u2019s version of Jesus\u2019s\ntrials, there is quite a bit of discussion about not only the coming Son of\nMan, but what God\u2019s kingdom is like.  And\nthis is continually contrasted with various forms of human rule, including both\nthe council of elders, Pilate, and Herod. Then even the criminals crucified with\nhim get into a debate about proper governance and this man called \u201cKing of the\nJews.\u201d And then one of them asks to be remembered in Jesus\u2019s coming kingdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is only a sampling. But\nhow does it change our listening this year to attend to the ways in which this\nis a story about God\u2019s salvation of the world<\/em>, including its ways of\nbeing ruled. What would our Holy Week look like if we attended to Jesus\u2019s words\nabout what his Father\u2019s kingdom looked like in both our approach to the church\u2019s\nstructures and all of our participation in the structures of power.  Where is the passion narrative calling us to pick\nup the crosses of others, follow Jesus, and risk dying for others who are in\nneed?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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