ACAA - The Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost

Resurrection - Ascension - Pentecost

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THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST

	(04/21/2001) Following are the links to images about the Resurrection of Christ: + I am the resurrection and the Life, Huang Jin-cheng, China + The Exalted Jesus, by Yom Jae Won, Korea + On the Road to Emmaus, by He Qi, China + The Song of Resurrection, by He Qi, China
The Risen Lord, by He Qi, China

Emmanuel Garibay: "It's the post crucifixion event and the word has got around that Jesus is no longer in the tomb. So the scene starts with two of his disciples walking to a place called Emmaus and along the way they meet a stranger and they have some kind of lengthy conversation with him until they reach the place. They invite the stranger to stay with them for the night but the stranger needs to move on. It was only when they were about to eat at the table that they realized that the stranger whom they were walking with was Jesus, which is very strange because if you know somebody very well it is almost impossible to have such a long discussion with him for seven miles and not recognize him. Now the thing I wanted to raise is that most so-called Christians always have a limited concept of the Christ image. They always think in terms of that person in Palestine who lived two thousand years ago. So the concept of Christ [derives from] a very obscure historical event in many cases made up by his disciples. The point is it is very difficult for most people to contextualize their faith because the colonial packaging of the Christian faith has been deeply embedded in their consciousness and it's so hard to get away from that. So the figure at the center is a woman -she could be mistaken for a man because she has short hair- she is drinking with them and kind of telling a Joke and everybody is laughing around her. But the point is that the joke is that people are laughing because they thought all along that Jesus was a man, and that Jesus is a Caucasian looking guy, you know... all these conventional concepts about Jesus. I have a different image of Jesus which is that of a woman, a very ordinary looking Filipino woman, who drinks with them and has stories to tell. The idea of laughing is very common among Filipinos-to laugh at their mistakes. It's all part of understanding the culture and it's also part of contextualizing the concept of faith within the culture.

I've been trying to come up with an acceptable marriage of some of my beliefs. It is not a traditional or a conventional kind of belief system-an ideology that I have sort of accepted as part of my involvement in mass struggles. The point is that I sort of realized that there is an angle in Christianity not to turn off a kind of spirituality that is always going around. It is actually very anti-Church. I only start to realize now that if you analyze the story of Jesus he was very much against conventional religiosity. That is why even in conventional representation, in stories-if you try to read the Bible again-you will notice that most of the so-called ministry of Christ took place outside of the Church-he was always involved in peoples' lives. The real liturgy takes place outside the Church. It is in society where liturgy really takes place. Christ was crucified outside. The only time he was in the Church was to knock it down. He was always waging war with Church officials. That's just one part of it. Another important part is the humanism in his teachings. They put a lot of faith in humanity-humanity's capacity to become divine by transcending their obsession for a conventional concept of power, power in terms of military power, a means to control and to dominate. It's actually very simple." (Words and pictures of Emmanuel Garibay are taken from the book 'Kristology and Radical Communion Works of Emmanuel Garibay' byJonathan L. Beller, Sipat Publications - Philippines)

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Emmaus, Emmanuel Garibay, Philippines, 1997

Except for one person, everyone is around the table drinking and laughing. I don't know if you are familiar with the last chapter of Luke..

This time we present the art works of:
He Qi (China), Ueno Yasuo (Japan), Emmanuel Garibay (Philippines), Solomon Raj (India), Shin Young-Hun (Korea), Bagong Kussudiardja (Indonesia), Sawai Chinnawong (Thailand), Soichi Watanabe (Japan), Huang Jin-cheng (China).

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"The Song Bird", by Solomon Raj, India

The Song Bird
by Solomon Raj, India

The Song Bird

Holy Spirit, Sometimes I feel like a song bird.
I fly to the highest tree and I sing and sing and sing.
And people say: if only that bird would stop his noise.
And young people put on their walkman
and listen to the sound of the drum.
And sometimes it seems to me that I sing for nothing.

Why am I a song bird?
Why am I not a flamingo, or an eagle or a mighty roaring lion,
only a song bird? I did not make myself.
And you. Holy Spirit, you did not ask me
whether I wanted to be a song bird.
My parents did not ask me either
whether I wanted to be their child
or whether I wanted to exist at all.
That's why I am what I am,
an ugly bird, who can only sing.

And now you tell me: What would the world be without your song?
You tell me:
You are more important than all the walkman of the world.
Sing, song bird, you make the world a better place.
Yes, Holy Spirit, I want to sing
for those who listen and for those who don't listen.
Holy Spirit, could you not tell those people
to put their walkman aside and listen to my song.
That would be nice.

by Walter J. Hollenweger - Prayers

Please click the thumbnails, to see the art works of: Shin Young-Hun (Korea), Bagong Kussudiardja (Indonesia), Sawai Chinnawong (Thailand), Soichi Watanabe (Japan)

"The Ascension", Bagong Kussudiardja, Indonesia

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