Good morning Son!
Papa, these are such beautiful words from Bishop Barron, they bring forth thoughts about quantum entanglement and the strange world of physics we are only just beginning to understand. It is interesting that Francis Bacon said this in "Of Atheism" (1601): "A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion" which was probably the seed for the quote put on the lips of (its not in any of his written works) Werner Heisenberg the father of quantum physics, “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
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| An image from the Book of Kells |
I’m loving it and this explains an even deeper reason why I’m drawn to the book of Kells… can’t believe I might actually get to see it in person soon!
Yes son, I love the music video your friend made of it. It captures its essence quite well.
Thanks Papa, love you.
Love you too son.
Amen.
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Bishop Barron’s Homily for Today
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Bishop Barron’s Homily for Today
JOHN 10:31–42
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares, “The Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
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| Coinherence |
Charles Williams stated that the master idea of Christianity is “coinherence,” mutual indwelling. If you want to see this idea concretely displayed, look to the pages of the Book of Kells, that masterpiece of early Christian illumination. Lines interwoven, designs turning in and around on each other, plays of plants, animals, planets, human beings, angels, and saints. The Germans call it Ineinander (one in the other).
How do we identify ourselves? Almost exclusively through the naming of relationships: we are sons, brothers, daughters, mothers, fathers, members of organizations, members of the Church, etc. We might want to be alone, but no one and nothing is finally an island. Coinherence is indeed the name of the game, at all levels of reality.
And God—the ultimate reality—is a family of coinherent relations, each marked by the capacity for self-emptying. Though Father and Son are really distinct, they are utterly implicated in each other by a mutual act of love.
The impossibly good news is that Jesus and the Father have invited us to enter fully into their divine coinherence. The love between the Father and the Son—which is called “the Holy Spirit”—can be participated in.
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