Christ's Presence
The Salvadorian Jesuit Jon Sobrino writes, "Christ's credibility is assured as far as the poor are concerned, for he maintained his nearness to them to the end. In this sense the cross of Jesus is seen as the paramount symbol of Jesus approach to the poor, and hence the guarantee of his indisputable credibility." This is indeed a God who stayed with us, who resides in our midst - not just "spiritually" but concretely in every aspect of our world. That is how we know this God is real. It is not our Christian belief that makes God's nearness credible. Rather it is God's nearness that makes Christian belief, especially the Paschal mystery, credible.
Roberto Goizueta, excerpt from The Symbolic Realism of the U.S.Latino/a Popular Catholocism
Theological Studies, 65 (2004)
"It is not our Christian belief that makes God's nearness credible. Rather it is God's nearness that makes Christian belief, especially the Paschal mystery, credible."
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Stephen Sparrow
All the more reason to make a pilgrimage to Guadalupe, the California, then the East Coast. Or vice versa: start here and end there, which would make more sense geographically.
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