An Easter Reflection from Sr. Ilia
Easter is a beautiful season, bursting with renewal and wonder. It reminds us of the extraordinary power of God’s love—the power to raise what is dead into new life. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a past event; it reveals our very purpose: to live renewed lives in God. Yet the path to resurrection is not one of ease. The journey Jesus walked was marked by darkness, betrayal, abandonment, and doubt. At any moment, he could have turned away; however, he remained faithful to his calling, embracing his life’s mission.
Jesus died a thousand little deaths to break open the new reign of God. He shows us that death opposes life when we refuse to live. To be fully alive, to live into the fullness of life, is to die a thousand deaths, as well. We too must be willing to walk into the conflict of injustice, the cries of the poor, the struggle of naming the powers, the loss of what feels safe and known. We must walk by the power of love alone. Only in losing our lives and shedding our protective layers can we touch the wounds of life with the healing power of love. Through every act of resistance against what divides us and sets us apart—we realize the truth of our existence—we are one.
Resurrection speaks of the present moment bathed in a new future, a new relationship with God, a new union by which life is gathered into a new creative energy of love. We too are part of this new energy when we profess, “Christ is risen!” We believe that new life is on the horizon of a new creation, a new future, a new cosmos. Fear no longer has us in its grip. We no longer fear death because we believe, wholeheartedly, that God is doing new things.
By giving ourselves over to another in love, God rises up from the darkness of possibility into the brilliance of a new reality. Our lives are transformed by the newness of God’s energetic love. It is by love alone that we shall live forever.
Happy Easter!
Sr. Ilia
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Thank you, Ilia. Yes, by love alone, challenging as it is. Easter hope and joy.
Thank you for your beautiful writing, a reflection of the Christ beauty!
The new energy is and always has been panpsychic, calling for a new christogenic paradigm. In pure form it’s cosmic, free of all names and bare of all forms universally. Like sunshine or rain, it’s common property, so no one owns it. Jesus taught that, but no one else has since, turning it into another tribal religion.
Teilhard called it the ‘noosphere,’ Einstein the ‘unified field,’ Freud the ‘unconscious,’ Jung the ‘collective unconscious,’ Emerson the ‘oversoul,’ Jesus the ‘Holy Spirit,’ etc., each having their respective followings — scientific, philosophical, psychological, religious. Same cosmic energy, different name and form. By any other name divinity is still the same, its energies, laws and principles are to be brought into individual and collective consciousness until groups, races, and nations get it. So far, they haven’t, still protecting their tribal boundaries, scratching and clawing, practicing their favorite activities in bounded groups, including tribal warfare.
This is why off-world visitors keep their distance, we shoot at them, see them as a national security threat. As a species we’re not yet fit to join the galactic and intergalactic community, to say nothing of the kingdom of heaven on earth, or elsewhere. Be honest.
If I walked into any church, mosque, or synagogue this Easter Sunday, and proclaimed an updated Spirt-Science version of the gospel as Teilhard might if still alive, along with how to access it the way Jesus taught it, with real non-sectarian catholicity, who would buy it? That old time religion, in any form, would give me the boot.
Truth be told, as in Jesus day, physics and metaphysics, outer and inner worlds are the same world, operating from the SAME cosmic energy and information field seeking conscious reconciliation and oneness in all humankind.
A beautiful message that I wholly accept.
The teachings of Christogenesis has given me a place to belong. My toes stand on the edge of the next moment. I can share in carrying Love forward. I matter. I can love. I am Love.
A blueprint for going forward in these dark and chaotic times in our country.
Oh Ilia, so beautiful. Simply written. So Teilhard. I love The Book of Hours.
Well having once been a CND. I’m pretty proud of the Editors! 😁
Happy Easter.
Keep up your good work.
Rita Leitch Halifax, NS.
I thank you deeply, Ilya for your heartfelt teachings. Successfully coupling the sciences and evolution into the teachings of the gospels is a prophetic step into expanding the Now and revealing a way forward into the future.
Your messages have great import and will have greater effect as you and other spiritual teachers bring an enlivened perspective to 21st century Christianity. Deep bows to you.
Before We Were Born
We were water, light.
We were breath, flight. We were love
Yearning for this world
-jm
What a stunning and soul-stirring reflection—thank you for sharing such beauty and depth. Your words pulse with resurrection life, reminding me that Easter is not just a celebration of an event, but an invitation into a way of being—one marked by courageous love, surrender, and transformation.
Yes, let us not just believe in the Resurrection, let us undergo one