Olivier Clement writes Resurrection begins already here below...The truest moments of our life, those lived in the invisible, have a resurrection flavour. Resurrection begins every time that a person, breaking free from conditioning, transfigures them. Through grace is found 'the body of the soul', 'the outer side of innermost'. Resurrection begins every time that a person plunges this world's opaque, divisive, death-riddled modality into its Christ-centered modality, into that 'ineffable and marvelous fire hidden in the essence of things, as in the Burning Bush'.
In monastic life, we use symbolism as a way to remind us that our earthly journey is just that, earthly. For the Easter celebration, a wondrous fullness contrasts Lent's spark bareness. This fullness is symbolized through an abundance of flowers, bells, music, light and incense, helping to lift the mind to things above, where we all hope to be one day with Christ. As Clement notes, we begin resurrection here below every time we penetrate through the opaqueness of this world of sense into that world of spirit, where fire doesn't burn, nor light blind, nor death destroy.
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