We talk of his “coming again” only in terms of a final judgment or a deathbed encounter. For the most part, our Christian path encourages us to “meet” him in the sacraments, to live ethically in this world, and to await a mystical reunion in the next. But that is not what Jesus himself proclaims, or what the earliest Christians experienced. They experienced Jesus as present: alive, palpable, vibrantly connected; their experience was that the walls between the realms are paper thin and that our embodiment is no obstacle to the full and intimate participation in relationship with him here and
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