Sunday, April 8, 2012
Christianity is Not a Religion
Why are we doing this? What are we celebrating? For what have we spent the days of Lent preparing?
Christianity is not a religion. Christianity makes no sense at all unless we understand Christ died and then rose from the dead. That event, which took place at a certain moment in human history, still is happening because, through Christ, the bounds of space and time were broken by a Mystery which continually summons us. As Monsignor Luigi Giussani reminds us:
"Christianity is an event. There is no other word to indicate its nature: neither the word law nor the word ideology, conception, or project. Christianity is not a religious doctrine, a series of moral laws, a complex of rites. Christianity is a fact, an event: everything else is a consequence."