This Sunday is Lent 5, and the Annual Meeting. We will get to see our Parish Profile for the first time. I am looking forward to seeing how our faithful profile committee has seen us-how we see each other. One thing I know is that we love our building and music and preaching. And we do not love these things idly, but because the arts can be a powerful doorway into the narrative and meaning of our faith. When we let artists feel and illuminate the stories, they can be translated to us in new and living ways. Our minds and souls and bodies can interact with God in Christ, through art, architecture and sound, more directly than our brains can perhaps process.
I find this especially important as I prepare myself for Holy Week. The tale of the Passion of Jesus is so condensed, so emotionally fraught, and so potent that I struggle to distill its meaning in any coherent, intellectual way.
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