Ash Wednesday, Dustification and the End of the World
Christification of the Universe
PROFESSOR ANTON MEEMANA
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Part of Christ’s holiness was his earthiness, his down to earthness.
Christification cannot be separated from planetisation of sanctity.
When Christ will dwell, rest, relax and repose in your heart, you too will feel truly rested, relaxed and reposed. Real human rest comes from resting in Christ.
Real relaxation stems from relaxing in Christ Jesus. Christ is the masseur par excellence. His is the real massage parlour. Our authentic self is a mirror of Christ.
Ash Wednesday reminds us of the most realistic perspective on life. Ash Wednesday is the celebration of our earthiness, dustiness, soilness, clayness, fleshness, ashiness and the liberation it facilitates towards Easter. There is no resurrection without immersing ourselves in our dusty human reality.
Ash Wednesday, Dustification and the End of the World Sanctification of the Dust
By PROFESSOR ANTON MEEMANA
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Dusts sing of a presence that is sacred, divine and holy and that hymn is the essence its luminosity. The whole dusty earth is an enchanted kingdom. Dusts contain the splendor of God and reflect the glory of God.
God’s creativity and originality is ever active, flows and flares forth in and through dusts and ashes. His creative energy pulsates in dust. There is no such a thing as cosmic energy apart from divine energy. God is the fountain of cosmic energy. No energy can give birth to itself. No energy can create itself out of nothing. There is a Creator of all energy. This prodigious cosmic creativity, this mind-blowing and mind-buggling cosmic energy is never arbitrary or auto-generated. Cosmic energy is borrowed-energy from God.
Matter has a mysterious and a metaphysical dimension. Dustification is part and parcel of divine justification. There is no sanctification of the human person without dustification.
Evolution is dust becoming alive, vibrant and reflectively conscious. Earth is a living and pulsating organism. Divine incarnation is sanctification of dust and dustification of the Sacred. Dusts possess a psychic inwardness and a multifaceted consciousness received from and given by its Creator. The evolving and expanding universe is a celebratory event, a glorious reality. The earth is becoming increasingly alive, giggling and pulsating. So can we become as alive, bubbling, pulsating, dazzling and sparkling as our good friend earth or as exuberant, jubilant, festive and radiant as the universe which is made of dust? Human beings are made of star dust.
Dusts are divine particles, sacred building blocks, divine miracles. And divine miracles are marks of Divine love.
Ashes are divine embers, sacred blazers and holy sparks. Adorability of dust is its sacredness. There is only way to become truly human, that is, in and through infinite humility. Humility is another name for humanity for both have the same root in Latin (humus=soil). Humans are creatures of humus. The way to heaven is a dusty path.
Ash Wednesday, Dustification and the End of the World
Dustification of the Creation
By PROFESSOR ANTON MEEMANA
Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lent, is not a day for misery and self-pity, but a day for
deep repentance and radical conversion. Ash Wednesday is ready to take away our ashen
faces. Ash Wednesday is a day of aspiration, assistance, assurance and ascent towards
spiritual magnanimity.
Humans are earthly creatures through and through and our destiny is organically and
necessarily tied up with the health and happiness of the earth. We are not flying creatures
such as eagles, crows, hawks, parrots and mocking birds. This fantasy about space travels
and colonizing other planets is a very comforting illusion and can at best become an escape
from our earthly, clayish, ashy, soily, dusty and fleshy reality.
Even if we develop the technological capability to settle down in another planet, what guarantee would we have that we are not going to destroy it the way we have plundered, raped and devastated the mother earth?
What is fundamentally and very urgently required of us is transformation of our
consciousness and our daily lifestyles, not so much space exploration for exploitative
enterprises. Earth is our second skin without which human life is absolutely impossible.
Our malnourished and anorexic perspective on dust is gathering dust and it is high time to dust it
off. The one who cherishes the earth cherishes the universe entire. By the same token, the one
who destroys the earth destroys the universe entire. The enemies of the earth are the enemies
of God and the friends of the earth are friends of God too.
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