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Who is Jesus?

What was He all about?

Inadequate Answers:

‘God and Man’

‘Messiah-Savior-Redeemer’

‘Teacher of Love and Forgiveness’

‘Fulfillment of Law & the Prophets’

‘Friend and Lover’

‘Model for Human Living’

‘Teacher of a Way of Life’

two important

things about Jesus

two ‘essentials’

first ‘essential’

connected to the Source

Jesus was intimately connected to the Source.

The Source was His Father.

second ‘essential’Jesus was totally

poured out in mission

SALVATION

connected to the Source

first ‘essential’

Jesus was intimately connected to the Source.

The Source was His Father.

Jesus: mountain stream

Jesus was like a mountain stream …

Jesus was like an artesian well ….Artesian well

Jesus was like a tree …

Like a tree

Like a battery

Jesus was like a battery …

Meaning of these metaphors?

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Meaning of metaphors?

Jesus: mountain stream in touch

Jesus was like a mountain stream …

…directly in touch with the Original Spring.

… like an artesian well,

Artesian well connected with source

he was connected with the Water Source.

… like a tree

Like a tree drinking …earth

whose roots

drink from the Water Veins beneath the earth.

Like a battery connected

Jesus … like a battery connected with the Power Source.

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Graphics: Jesus praying

Jesus intimately connected

Jesus was one who was intimately connected to the Source. The Source was His Father.

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Mk 1:35 Jesus praying

In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed. (Mk 1:35)

Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After saying farewell to them, he went up on the mountain to pray. (Mk 6:45-46)

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Mk 6:45-46 Jesus praying

Being connected with the Source, Jesus’ total being was fully charged with the Divine. Fully Charged with Divine

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The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. (Jn 14:10-11).

… there were Pharisees who had

come from every village …and the

power of the Lord (Yahweh) was with

him to heal (Lk 5: 17).

The Spirit of the Lord (Yahweh) is

upon me … to proclaim good news

to the poor, proclaim release to the captives, etc. (Lk

4:18).

The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan (Mk 1:12-13)

You know the word … which was proclaimed throughout

all Judea, beginning from Galilee … how God anointed

Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power;

how he went about doing good and healing all that

were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. (Acts

10:36-38)

Men of Israel, hear: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works & wonders & signs which God did through him in your

midst …(Acts 2:2).

the Breaththe Powerthe Energy

of His Father(not Jesus’ Divinity)

the Source that energized Jesus

How was Jesus connected?

silence

night-long prayer

how … ?

Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. (Lk 6:12)

Silence … all night

… silent communion

no words

presence to PRESENCE

no thoughts

just centered

just awaresilence

Jesus was bursting with divine Energy because he was in touch with the Abba, through silent communion.

Divine energy in touch silence abba

‘Jesus was never lowbat.’

Jesus--Battery

full of power.

Jesus--sponge …

Always wet and soak in God .

Robust tree … connected to the

source beneath the earth

Hesus--

Cloud … seeded with the divine essence.

Hesus--

Jesus--

Torch…Afire with

the divine!

Volcano …seething with fire

Jesus--

The First EssentialThe first essential (triptych

Praying is living

It is eating & drinking, action and rest, teachingand learning, playing andworking. Praying pervadesevery aspect of our lives.

It is the unceasing recognition that Godis wherever we are,

always inviting us to comecloser and to

celebrate the divine giftof being alive.

Mother Teresa’s Group. (Grp. 1)

- Jesus was like a mountain stream … directly in touch with the Original Spring.

Mother Ignacia’s Group. (Grp. 2)

- Jesus was like an artesian well, he was connected with the Water Source..

Pope John Paul II’s Group (Grp 3)

– Jesus was like a robust tree, whose roots drink from the Water Veins beneath the earth.

Mere Marie Anne de Tilly’s Group (Grp 4 )

– Jesus was like a battery connected with the Power Source, a battery full of charge or fully charged

with the Divine.

Father Chauvet’s Group (Grp 5)

– Jesus was like a Cloud seeded with the divine

essence.

Barbe Foucault’s Group (Grp 6)

Jesus was like a torch, afire with the divine or

… was like a volcano, seething with fire.