i love how the ends of these readings also are bound up together.
"Now when the centurion, who stood facing Him, saw that in this way He breathed His last, he
said, “Truly this Man was God’s Son!”
Remembering that when God creates the World, He does it by speaking- and when speaking happens, there is always an exhale of breath. And when humanity is made, the Hebrew is not in the past tense- God *began* making mankind. When Jesus breathes (exhales, speaks) His last breath, there is a Way in which it is in speaking the last line of that Psalm- but in first person. "He has done it" carries with it the weight of "It is finished".
The making of Man in the Image and Likeness of God is completed in that Holy Moment. And Spirit is the same word as 'breath' in Greek...
So, of all the crowd- who would have been (should have been...) intimately familiar with Psalm 22- it is the Centurion alone who has ears to hear and eyes to see immediately the achingly beautiful Divine Dance of the Trinity: Jesus, held in the Arms of the Father, exhales the Spirit, and creates (and saves) the World from the Cross. ❤️
i love how the ends of these readings also are bound up together.
"Now when the centurion, who stood facing Him, saw that in this way He breathed His last, he
said, “Truly this Man was God’s Son!”
Remembering that when God creates the World, He does it by speaking- and when speaking happens, there is always an exhale of breath. And when humanity is made, the Hebrew is not in the past tense- God *began* making mankind. When Jesus breathes (exhales, speaks) His last breath, there is a Way in which it is in speaking the last line of that Psalm- but in first person. "He has done it" carries with it the weight of "It is finished".
The making of Man in the Image and Likeness of God is completed in that Holy Moment. And Spirit is the same word as 'breath' in Greek...
So, of all the crowd- who would have been (should have been...) intimately familiar with Psalm 22- it is the Centurion alone who has ears to hear and eyes to see immediately the achingly beautiful Divine Dance of the Trinity: Jesus, held in the Arms of the Father, exhales the Spirit, and creates (and saves) the World from the Cross. ❤️
Thanks for sharing this. :-)