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by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most celebrated contemporary experiments in psychology
tested the human capacity to pay attention
it is the so called \u201cinvisible gorilla\u201d video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this \u201cselective attention test,\u201d
participants watch a short video in which
a team of three in black shirts and a team of three in white shirts  
passed two basketballs to their respective team mates. 
At the beginning of the video<\/a> viewers are asked to count
\u201chow many times the players wearing white pass the basketball.\u201d
Most of the participants came up with the correct answer:
the white team passed the ball 15 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the researchers asked an unexpected second question:
Did you see the gorilla? 
This question often elicited blank stares. 
On average, 50% never saw the faux primate
dancing through the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers then replay the film, and plain as day
as the black and white teams are passing basketballs around
someone in a gorilla suit saunters into the video
walks dead center into the middle of the action
beats its chest a few times, and then exits.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sounds crazy but I know missing the gorilla is possible.
A number of years ago a student conducted this experiment
And multiple students along with their distracted instructor (me!)
missed the dancing primate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years the same researchers
have repeated this experiment and devised others
to test the prevalence of what they deemed
\u201cinattentional blindness\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, The Invisible Gorilla: How our Intuitions Deceive Us <\/em>(Broadway Paperbacks, 2009)]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They conclude that when we direct our \u201cmental spotlight\u201d
to something like the passing of a basketball,
it leaves the rest of the world and its dancing gorillas in darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, human beings suffer under what these scientists call
the \u201cillusion of attention.\u201d 
We think we see the world as it really is,
but actually often experience a striking mental blindness. 
That is why these researchers could document that
experienced professional pilots do not always notice
the plane blocking the runway right in front of them
as they are coming in for a landing,
or a police officer can actually miss seeing a physical assault
which he bypasses when in determined pursuit
of a suspect in a different crime.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these and multiple other situations,
the ignored data or overlooked incident
was not what the pilot or police officer were looking for. 
Their \u201cmental spotlights\u201d were focused elsewhere
and in the process they missed the proverbial gorilla.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tell this story because, for us baptized,
who renew our baptismal commitment this day,
there is always a spiritual gorilla in the room and on the street,
in our cities and in the world
and that spiritual gorilla through the gift of incarnation
is the Christ
roaming around not in a gorilla outfit
but masquerading as a human being
on every street corner and in every shopping mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The season of Christmas concludes today.
A societal misfire as most in our society
believe Christmas ended a long time ago.
My local Walgreens eve started its \u201cafter Christmas sales\u201d
On December 23rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this crazy \u2026 or at least stubborn Church
holds onto Christmas until this feast of baptism
as an affirmation that the season is not just about birth \u2026
about God assuming human flesh only in one time and place,
but about God wedding the divine self with humanity
and the consequences of that ongoing covenant
not just throughout the life of the historical Jesus
but throughout the life of Jesus\u2019 ecclesial body, the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baptism is a radical induction into the body of Christ,
a reassurance from God that incarnation continues,
and the provocative invitation to commit ourselves
to respecting God\u2019s continued intervention in human history.
Unfortunately, however, we quite often miss
the spiritual gorillas in our midst,
overlooking Jesus charading as a human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With characteristic honesty,
poet and preacher Barbara Brown Taylor
provides a public confession for us all on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her An Altar in the World, <\/em>she writes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have an easier time loving humankind than \u2026 loving particular human beings.  Particular human beings hug my bumper in rush hour ….  Particular human beings drop my carefully selected portabella mushrooms into the bottom of my grocery bag and toss cans of beans on top of them.  Particular human beings talk on their cell phones when I am having a quiet lunch \u2026 talk on their cell phones when I am waiting to pay them for my gas, and talk on their cell phones when I am trying to step past them on the sidewalk.  <\/em><\/p> [An Altar in the World: Finding the Sacred beneath our Feet <\/em>(Canterbury Press, 2009), p. 27.] <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We smile because we recognize ourselves
in her unvarnished truth telling,
but it gets more uncomfortable when she pushes us further
as she did when preaching a sermon on the well-known parable
of the Good Samaritan
with its stinging critique of righteous clergy, religious insiders
and shocking validation of the loathed outsider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Talyor notes, the Good Samaritan was never one of us.
He was the enemy, the foreigner
belonging to the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus turns the Samaritan into the hero.
But the punch of the story occurs
when you try to imagine the hero
as the last person in the world you want to call good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is the last person in the world, she asks,
you would want to give you CPR?
The kind of person you would hate to thank
for saving your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She concludes<\/a>, \u201cthat is\nyour _____ [fill in the blank]\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is that for us?
The most distasteful CPR provider?
The kind of person we would hate to thank?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would it be because of their race and nationality
like some Somalian?  
Or maybe their religion, like some Muslim woman,
or someone else whom we might dismiss simply as odd,
like the person who identifies as pan-gendered
and opts for the pronouns us\/we\/them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If and when we find our Samaritan
maybe we will have just discovered Jesus\u2019 best disguise,
his most convincing costume,
his most subverting gorilla move,
and in the process not just celebrated Epiphany,
but actually have had one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The celebrated Protestant preacher Fred Craddox
was once invited to preach at Ebenezer Baptist Church,
the church of Martin Luther King Senior and Junior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had moved to the pulpit to read the gospel when the pastor began to sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen the associates started singing, and the musicians went to their instruments, the piano and the organ and the drums and the electric guitar, and the people started singing. I\u2019m standing up there with Mark 8, waiting. Then, I suddenly realized, I\u2019m the one up front, I\u2019m the leader of this, so I started clapping my hands and singing. Then everybody stood up and started clapping their hands and swinging and singing, and it was just marvelous. Then at a certain point the pastor \u2026 put his hand out, it got quiet, they sat down and I started preaching. I could\u2019ve preached all day. Afterwards I said to [the pastor], \u201cWell, that kind of shocked me a little bit. You didn\u2019t tell me you were going to do that.\u201d He said, \u201cWell, I didn\u2019t plan it.\u201d \u201cThen why did you do it?\u201d And he said, \u201cWell, when you stood up there, one of my associates leaned over to me and said, \u2018That boy\u2019s going to need some help\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Reflecting on the gospel about the baptism of the Lord, Craddock repeated, \u201cThat boy\u2019s going to need some help.\u201d  He continued, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can just see The Father and The Spirit peering down from heaven onto the John the Baptist Revival Center and Riverfront Tabernacle down by the Jordan.  Here comes Jesus, determined to get started on his mission and full of vim, vigor and bright ideas.  And The Spirit turns to The Father and says, \u201cThat boy\u2019s going to need some help.\u201d  And The Father thinks about it a few minutes, looks out over the horizon and into the future and sees there trials and tribulations, sadness and sorrow, great adulation mixed with abject failure and frequent rejection.   And The Father nods sadly and says to The Spirit, \u201cI believe you\u2019re right.  That boy is going to some help.\u201d  And then a slow smile spread across the Father\u2019s face and he said, \u201cAnd guess what Spirit; you\u2019re it.\u201d<\/p> [Fred Craddox, Craddock Stories, <\/em>p. 128.] <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I like that story for a variety of reasons.
It reminds us that the preacher can always rely on musicians
for a little help.
It also reminds us that baptism \u2013 both Jesus\u2019 and our own \u2013
is about action, not holiness;
about doing something, not just being somebody;
and we can always use a little help
when doing gospel work \u2026 especially justice work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A week ago, I visited that same Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta
and stood outside at the tomb of Martin Luther and Coretta King.
The tomb is on an island in the middle of a gentle waterfall.
And that waterfall is engraved the prophetically inspired text
that King sometimes repeated:
\u201cWe will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water
and righteousness like a mighty stream\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus\u2019s baptism launched him into the deep waters of humanity,
into a mission to erase
our inhumane inattentiveness to each other,
to raise up the dignity of all,
to let justice and righteousness role like a mighty stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as in his own day, today there are many currents of prejudice,
rising tides of hatred,
torrents of acrimony,
threatening to submerge the dignity of people
around the world and in our backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so we take up the baptismal challenge
assured that we too who need a little help,
might be strengthened with God\u2019s mighty spirit \u2026
To do the justice work Isaiah proclaims in that first reading,
to continue the Jesus work of healing of the oppressed
that Peter urges in the second reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00adThere is an ancient tradition
that when the Old Irish immersed a babe at baptism,
they left the right arm out of the font
so that it would remain pagan for combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this feast we are reminded to re-immerse that right arm
so that it is ready only for holy combat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to find the lost,
heal the broken,
feed the hungry,
release the prisoners,
rebuild the nations,
bring peace among all  [From a poem by Howard Thurman]<\/em>
and let God\u2019s mercy rain down, rain down, rain down,
through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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