Here's a song I heard last week based on a prayer by St. Teresa of Avila.
With Kindness
Christ has no body here but ours,
No hands, no feet, here on earth but ours.
Ours are the eyes through which He looks
On this world With kindness.
Ours are the hands through which he works.
Ours are the feet on which he moves
Ours are the voices through which he speaks
To this world With kindness.
Through our touch, our smile, our listening ear,
Embodied in us, Jesus is living here.
Let us go now, Filled with the Spirit.
Into this world With kindness.
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2 comments:
1. i don't know if i can handle this frequent-posting kick you're on
2. good job for the Spanish lit reference
3. Rejoice, for the divine iBelieve has come? From the way all that copy was written i just could not believe it was real--but it looks like you really can order it. Makes me wonder if it's bunch of non-believers (or who knows, shameless Xn businessmen?) who want to cash in on the Christian religion's weakness for marketing itself and insistence on being cool by assimilating all things "secular."
I hope that's what it is, because to me, that's not as bad as if the people who created it actually BELIEVE what they created/wrote..
Here's a quote from John Milbank that I thought of when reading the lyrics.
"...the term corpus verum ceased, roughly after the mid twelfth century, to be applied to the Church, and was transferred to the body of Christ in the Eucharist. Inversely, the term corpus mysticum migrated from the Eucharist to the Church. Gradually, the latter was drained of physical solidity, which was transferred to the transubstatntiated elements."
We don't typically tend to think of the church as being the actual body of Christ, but I think we really should. It might change the way we think and act concerning the church.
-Tim Ratzlaff
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