El Greco, The Nativity (detail), c. 1605, Illescas, Charity Hospital.
Shadow and Light " God so loved the world that he gave his Only son " (Jn 3.14-21)
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The light of God manifested in our lives, the center of the painting of the Nativity painted by El Greco, Christ, small body naked light hyphen between the two bodies of Mary and Joseph still hidden in shadow.
A hyphen, because in his Incarnation, Jesus is already a sign of love and reality of God effectively, come all reconcile and unify.
white linen, dazzling as any fabric on earth could be compared, is like a piece of sky, light uncreated investing the nights of human nature. Before our eyes, there is like a Transfiguration before the time of Tabor. God accessible, under the guise of an infant bright and radiant.
hands of Mary and Joseph, opened the diaper, as it would open the heart of a rose. At the heart of the outbreak, the treasure: the naked child is offered to us. And her parents as two red petals and blue surround, the share and thus participate in the transmission dynamics of God. Because it does not recognize and accept the gift of God, must still give it to us really and forever ... A proverb Sufi said: "What you give is yours forever."
It is as if the parents of Jesus "raised" their child, either within the meaning of "education", but they uncover, they expose it so that everyone who sees and believes, has the eternal life.
Jesus is the light coming into the world, the source that illuminates the faces, hands and body, and tearing up the darkness. And everything is a gift: that of God the Father offering his only son in the world, the parents reveal their child to the painter and the painter with the child of light to our poor eyes seeker of clarity and new dawn inauguration.
Lord, grant us to transmit, in turn, what we received: the torch of truth, that we come to true life and true light, good way of Lent.
Sr. Nathalie CSJ, St. Guilhem le Desert, March 22, 2009.
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