Spirituality
April 8, 2014
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Fr. Brendan McGuire is pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in San Jose and a Vicar
General of the Diocese of San Jose. As Vicar General, he is responsible
for special projects such as the recently launched Saint Katharine Drexel
Initiative to revitalize Catholic Schools in the Diocese. Before being ordained
in 2000, Fr. Brendan was an executive in a technology company and still
loves to use technology such as Facebook, podcasts and YouTube to bring
people to a deeper relationship with Christ. Email him at [email protected].
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Christ is Risen
When talking about God we use different images and metaphors. Imagine all these
images on a level playing field, where all images play equally on the field.
Consider all these images of God as Father; God as Protector; God as Benefactor; God
as Judge; God as our Redeemer, God as a loving Father. We use these different images
of God with various degrees of emphasis at different times. Our liturgy is full of these
images, each of them slightly different, each giving light to a different aspect of God but
always on an equal playing field.
If we are honest, the playing field is not really level and is intentionally tilted to one
of the images—the image of God as ݙ\