Death No Longer has Dominion
Fr. Tony’s Midweek Message
April 11, 2018
“But if we have died with Christ, we
believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from
the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life
he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive
to God in Christ Jesus.: (Romans 6:8-11)
The implications of Jesus being raised from the dead are
endless: if death is not final, we need
not fear it; if life is our final end, we need to live into life at all times,
even here and now; if the Empire’s worst threats (torture, death, and war) are
hollow, we can live here and now in the Reign of God that Jesus announced.
William Stringfellow said it clearly:
“[T]he vocation of the baptized
person is a simple thing: it is to live from day to day, whatever the day
brings, in this extraordinary unity, in this reconciliation with all people and
all things, in this knowledge that death has no more power, in this truth of
the resurrection. It does not really matter exactly what a Christian does from
day to day. What matters is that whatever one does is done in honor of one’s
own life, given to one by God and restored to one in Christ, and in honor of
the life into which all humans and all things are called. The only thing that really matters to live in
Christ instead of death.” (from Instead of Death)
Grace and Peace,
Fr. Tony+
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