Sacred Roots Workshop

146 Sacred Roots Workshop: Retr ieving the Great Tradi t ion in the Contemporary Church

d. Authentic spirituality, the kind that ought to be developed and shared in the city, must be rooted in the person of Jesus Christ himself, Phil. 3.7-8 – But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. [8] Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.

4. In keeping the Church Year we affirm the mystery of Christ in the world, and recognize that our time today ( chronos ) has been superceded by the incarnation of God in this world ( kairos ).

5. As amazing as it may seem, with the entrance of Jesus Christ into the world, this time today has become the fullness of time in history! , Gal. 4.4-6 – But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, [5] to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. [6] And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

C. It corresponds to our human tendency to organize time: It follows the natural rhythm of our everyday lives in Christ: the Church Year overlaps and mirrors our actual life year .

1. Everyone has ways of marking time, of determining one day over another: the calendar year, the fiscal year, seasons and cycles abound (based on culture, nationality, ethnicity, association, etc.).

2. Usually, observance and commemoration speak to the key events in the identity of a people and its fundamental story of itself: where we came from, how we got here, where we’re going .