JESUS - The Man, The God, The ???

Hardest thing about being a Christian is grasping Jesus, the center of the religion itself. No matter how you try to ignore it or suppress it, questions about the dual nature of Jesus shows itself up every time when the name is mentioned. He walked the earth as fully human and he is fully divine, not one over the other, not one after the other, but being both at the same time in its wholeness. Give a little bit more emphasis to the divine nature of Jesus, and we are denying the incarnation, the passion and the death. Allow some lead way to the human nature and he is nothing more than a spiritual guru !!

Recently I went to a first Saturday Mass at the Our Lady of Vailankanni Shrine in Washington DC; the church had very many people from good many countries, a Bangladeshi priest said the Mass in English and all the hymns were in Tamil. I looked around and saw an African woman in her traditional native dress sitting behind an oriental woman in a skirt suit, both listening intensely to a Tamil hymn being sung during meditation after the Communion. And I got it. As I felt the presence of Jesus there, bringing together so many people with so much diversity into one group. It was an unlikely combination of culture and language to be coexisting in harmony anywhere else, just like an unlikely combination humanity and divinity coexists in Jesus Christ. 

Jesus can easily be understood when we realize that he is not just somebody who lived 2000 years ago in the Middle East. He is not some idea or principle. Jesus Christ is actively present in body, blood, soul and divinity every time when two or three are gathered in His name, whoever it may be and wherever it may be, and that is Jesus the Man and Jesus the God.