Easter Vigil Year B
Mark 16: 1-8
Mark's narrative has dwelt on the failures of those closest to Jesus throughout the story, including his arrest and execution. It continues after the resurrection. Some of the women in the inner circle of Jesus' followers go to anoint the corpse. When they arrive at the tomb, they are privileged with the announcement from a "young man dressed in a white robe" that Jesus of Nazareth who they know was crucified "is not here." "He has been raised." They are instructed to tell Peter and the others. But they are frozen with fear and told no one initially. Finally they told some "around" Peter and the news trickles to him. Without going into details, Mark simply says then "Jesus himself" set out the proclamation.
POSTMODERN PREACHING rediscovers direct engagement between scriptures and tradition with the whole human experience. There are no restrictions to overcome, as presented by Modernity. Rather, human concerns and questions are recognized and addressed in texts that know the human condition thoroughly, yet also bear witness to the power of the sacred. The preacher hosts a "sacred conversation" between all past texts and each occasion they are read and interpreted publicly.
Annalena Altarpiece, Convent of San Marco, Florence
Fra Giovanni da Fiesole ("Angelico") c.1400-1455
"Sacra Conversazione"
Fra. Angelico, a member of the preaching order of the Dominicans, is credited with introducing into the Western imagination the conceit of "sacra conversazione." Saints from the Bible, the past and the near-past are shown together in animated convrsation around the Madonna and Christ Child. In the "Angelina Altarpiece" in the Convent of San Marco in Florence, he depicts St. Peter Martyr a dynamic preacher ranked with Dominic himself and martyred in 1251, Saints Comas and Damian twins known for their gifts of healing and martyred in 303, St. John the Evangelist, St. Lawrence martyred in the persecutions of the Emperor Valerian in 258 and St. Francis of Assisi. Holding their texts for ready reference, they speak, listen and respond to each other in a timeless conversation initiated by the scriptures.
"Other voices are at once the past and future of my own voice. The past because they have always already called me and even named me, they have already addressed themselves to me, and through their immemorial past, immemorial as far as I am concerned since they preceded the I, they have always already gathered lights, no matter how obscure, in the place that becomes, little by little, my place. Future of my voice also, since it is only through them that I can learn to speak and to say something"
Jean-Luis Chretien, The Call and the Response, (p.81)
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"You may say something new and yet it must all be old. In fact you must confine yourself to saying old things-- and all the same it must be something new! Different interpretations must correspond to different applications. A poet too has constantly to ask himself: 'but is what I am writing really true?' -- and does this necessarily mean: 'is this how it happens in reality?' Yes, you have to assemble bits of old material. But into a building."
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, (p. 40e)
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"...'[D]econstruction' has this peculiarity: if we look back at its origin in the text of [Heidegger's] Being and Time, it is the last state of the tradition-- its last state of retransmission, to us and by us, of the whole tradition in order to bring it back into play in its totality. To put the tradition into play according to deonstruction, according to Destruktion, (a term Heidegger was determined to protect against Zerstorung, i.e. against 'destruction,' and that he characterized as Abbau, 'taking apart') means neither to destroy in order to form anew nor to perpetuate-- two hypotheses that would imply a system given as such and untouchable as such. To deconstruct means to take apart, to dissemble, to losen the assembled structure in order to give it some play to the possibility from which it emerged but which, qua structure, it hides."
Jean-Luc Nancy, Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity, (p. 148)
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"Is not our expectation and our readiness to hear the new also necessarily determined by the old that has already taken possession of us?"
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosophical Hermeneutics, (p.9)
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"'Wisdom is grey.' Life, on the other hand, and religion are full of color."
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, p.62e
"Other voices are at once the past and future of my own voice. The past because they have always already called me and even named me, they have already addressed themselves to me, and through their immemorial past, immemorial as far as I am concerned since they preceded the I, they have always already gathered lights, no matter how obscure, in the place that becomes, little by little, my place. Future of my voice also, since it is only through them that I can learn to speak and to say something"
Jean-Luis Chretien, The Call and the Response, (p.81)
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"You may say something new and yet it must all be old. In fact you must confine yourself to saying old things-- and all the same it must be something new! Different interpretations must correspond to different applications. A poet too has constantly to ask himself: 'but is what I am writing really true?' -- and does this necessarily mean: 'is this how it happens in reality?' Yes, you have to assemble bits of old material. But into a building."
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, (p. 40e)
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"...'[D]econstruction' has this peculiarity: if we look back at its origin in the text of [Heidegger's] Being and Time, it is the last state of the tradition-- its last state of retransmission, to us and by us, of the whole tradition in order to bring it back into play in its totality. To put the tradition into play according to deonstruction, according to Destruktion, (a term Heidegger was determined to protect against Zerstorung, i.e. against 'destruction,' and that he characterized as Abbau, 'taking apart') means neither to destroy in order to form anew nor to perpetuate-- two hypotheses that would imply a system given as such and untouchable as such. To deconstruct means to take apart, to dissemble, to losen the assembled structure in order to give it some play to the possibility from which it emerged but which, qua structure, it hides."
Jean-Luc Nancy, Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity, (p. 148)
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"Is not our expectation and our readiness to hear the new also necessarily determined by the old that has already taken possession of us?"
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosophical Hermeneutics, (p.9)
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"'Wisdom is grey.' Life, on the other hand, and religion are full of color."
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, p.62e
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