{"id":19111,"date":"2020-07-24T09:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2020-07-24T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T14:33:59","slug":"come-and-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19111","title":{"rendered":"Come and See"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mary Magdalene<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Come\nand See<\/strong><br>\nFriday, \u202fJuly 24, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wms76AfllVE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-24-at-10.32.29-AM-500x250.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19116\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-24-at-10.32.29-AM-500x250.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-24-at-10.32.29-AM-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-24-at-10.32.29-AM-768x385.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-24-at-10.32.29-AM.png 1466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>At\nour Universal Christ conference in 2019, artist Janet McKenzie shared her\npaintings, including her work \u201cJesus of the People.\u201d In her presentation, she\nshared how rewarding and difficult it can be to disrupt people\u2019s preconceived\nnotions of who someone is and how they should behave. Our expectations are\noften bound by class, race, culture, gender, and in this case, religious\ntradition. Any resistance we might feel to changing our perspective of the role\nMary Magdalene played in Jesus\u2019 life or the early church probably stems from\nthat same discomfort of having our preconceived notions challenged. With that\nin mind, I want to share what Janet McKenzie has to say about her painting,\n\u201cMary Magdalene with Jesus, the Christ\u201d\u2014our banner for this week\u2019s meditations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\npainted Mary Magdalene and Christ seated side by side as visionaries and\nspiritual teachers with their hands open in the universal gesture of\nprayer\u2014gifts offered and received\u2014as icons of the sacred. Jesus, the Christ,\nsent to live among us as the Word Made Flesh, and Mary Magdalene, the first one\nsent to proclaim the resurrection, are models for the community of\ndisciple-companions sent \u201cto the ends of the earth\u201d [Acts 1:8] to tell and\nbecome the Good News for all. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Susan Calef, a\nprofessor of theology at Creighton University, wrote this commentary about\nMcKenzie\u2019s painting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nOne Sent: Mary Magdalene with Jesus, the Christ. The very words recall the\nclimactic scene of the Gospel of John, that of Mary Magdalene\u2019s dawn encounter\nwith the Secret Gardener. \u201cMary! . . . Go, tell my brothers and sisters . . .\u201d\n(John 20:16\u201217). For centuries artists have rendered the scene\nfamiliar: The Risen Christ stands above and Mary kneels below, her outstretched\nhand reaching for him as he rebuffs her. \u201cDo not cling to me,\u201d the\nimage speaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nstriking contrast, The One Sent images not a Gospel scene but a vision, a\nvision of the Wisdom-Word that dwells in the deep of John\u2019s Gospel. From the\nopening words \u201cIn the beginning\u201d to its climactic return to a garden, the fourth\nGospel evokes a new creation, worked and signed upon the world by the\nWord-Made-Flesh. For those eyed to see by John\u2019s Gospel telling, the image set\nbefore us speaks, not \u201cDo not cling to me,\u201d but \u201cCome and see.\u201d [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Spend a few moments simply gazing at\nthis painting. Is it possible that \u201cDo not cling to me\u201d may not have been a\nrebuke but an invitation for Mary Magdalene to see her beloved rabbi and friend\nfrom a new perspective? Could it be that the same invitation applies to us as\nwell?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Magdalene Come and See Friday, \u202fJuly 24, 2020 \u00a0 At our Universal Christ conference in 2019, artist Janet McKenzie shared her paintings, including her work \u201cJesus of the People.\u201d In her presentation, she shared how rewarding and difficult it can be to disrupt people\u2019s preconceived notions of who someone is and how they should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19117,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions\/19117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}