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Carthusian Jesus
Sun 7/29
By: Matthew Kruse
The Carthusians were an order of Christian monks in the Middle Ages who retreated from the world into a single residence, sleeping each in his own cell in a stone coffin (to remind him that his time on earth was short, and that it was the life after in Heaven that mattered) and speaking to each other not at all, unless to say 'memento mori' ('remember death'). Is this the height of Jesus-living, getting together with other believers, wardening ourselves off from the world, and trying hard not to be led into sin until Jesus' returns? Not according to John, who gives us Jesus' prayer for His Disciples that they fulfill His mission of being in the world and for the world, although unlike the world. Jesus is not Lord of the bunker but Lord of all, and we are called to put Him on full display before the nations.
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