These photographs are more than important for those who believe and
those who doubt, don't believe, are deceived or cheated by the Church,
by the splitting among the Churches, by ignorance, mutual disdain,
jealousy, hatred. How come that we live on the place where the Lord
Jesus followed his way, went around, passed between and through the
crowds, still not that much known at his time, things must be clear.
Here are the pictures of the Holy Oils given as the Mystery of Good rejoicing
for the healing of the sick, those who suffered, are in jail, naked,
poor, live in dire conditions. Holy Oils cannot only be shared among the
few "chosen" ones, the "happy few" and these can be so singled out and
broken into pieces with sweet words. No, the Church, the priest because
together with the bishops and the whole of the faithful have to bear
these Mysteries of life-giving beauty, of pardon, of shaking and dancing
as the bones have been scattered away. Then I have the dream that in
Jerusalem as in all the Churches, one first should bow down in
hospitals, prisons, streets, rich and poor together, all races, all
tongues and speeches, bow and smell the good smell of the oil, that can
reach out to all. Because in a mortal man (basar vadam/בשר ודם) born to
die God called him to resurrect to reinvigorate each soul and body. The
"nonsense" turns the world into a real sense and common sense, a real
way to much more than Who we think to see but the One Who sees us and
also call us to oversee what and how we receive His Presence. (c)
Ioannis, Holylandphoto.
