Jesus’ raises his eyebrow a little when he hears that one, but I keep going.Īfter I burned out on politics and the news business, I say, I taught English and mass communications for 20 years. Dad was a scientist, and I always knew whatever I did when I grew up, I wanted it to be useful, I wanted it to be of service, so I went to work after grad school as a political reporter. My grandfather was a Norwegian Lutheran pastor, and he handed down Luther’s idea of vocation to my father, that you’re called to be of service. I don’t know where to begin, so I launch into a long-winded recap of my life story. The upshot: Jesus asks me the first question: What have I done for Christ? Every school massacre will do, or every weekend when the gangbangers shoot it out in Chicago, Highland Park, Uvalde, the Tree of Life, that Baptist church in Texas. “But for now, right now, we don’t need to visualize the cross. “I can see why you felt overwhelmed there, and we may want to get back to that sometime. “The Franciscans have one, and the Greek Orthodox have one.” I nod my head in affirmation, and he continues. When I visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, I was so overwhelmed by it all I didn’t even realize one of the chapels was the traditional site of Golgotha until I looked it up later. I confess I’m having a hard time imagining myself on the scene of the crucifixion, like they suggest in the how-to stories on the internet. Jesus pauses a minute to let that sink in, then asks, “Well, you up for trying the colloquy?”
Every one of those kids was a beloved child of God.” “But it goes with the territory when you’re fully incarnate and you’re there to share in the suffering of your people.
#TRIPLE COLLOQUY TRIAL#
“I did hospital rounds this morning, and I had to be with the parents and the jurors in the Parkland school shooting trial today. Short beard, longish hair but not as long as in the icons something distinctly Middle Eastern about him but also distinctly a part of my world. But he still looks like the Christ Pantocrator in the old Orthodox icons. This time Jesus is wearing a clerical collar and a nondescript summer business suit. So at 4 o’clock, I clicked on the link and we began the Zoom call. Time: 04:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada).”
“Jesus Christ,” it said, “is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. To begin developing a personal relationship with God, in other words.Īfter I’d been reading O’Brien’s book excerpt about the colloquy on website, I checked my email and found a message from a familiar address. The technology also helps me imagine a F2F conversation with Jesus without getting off in the weeds of historical authenticity. I’m grateful for Zoom technology, in my prayer life as well as my interactions with other parishioners in my Lutheran church, my spiritual director and a Dominican anti-racism initiative I’ve recently joined.
It’s been several weeks now since I had my last heart-to-heart with Jesus. Today’s journal follows two others ( HERE and HERE), in which I imagine myself in conversations with Jesus on Zoom calls. “Ignatius suggests that we place ourselves before the cross” and raise three questions: “A colloquy is an intimate conversation between you and God the Father, between you and Jesus, or between you and Mary or one of the saints,” explains Kevin O’Brien, SJ.
In today’s, I try what is often known as the triple colloquy.
#TRIPLE COLLOQUY SERIES#
One of a series of posts in which I journal my attempts to incorporate Jesuit imaginative prayer exercises into my own prayer life. 1080-1100 ( Wikimedia Commons)Įditor’s (admin’s) note. Third in an occasional series of Ignatian colloquies … Christ Pantocrator, Haiga Sophia, Istanbul, ca.
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