Title: Solidarity of Love
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Among the sacraments of the church, baptism and the Lord's Supper are sacred rites that the Protestant Church considers important. It is very important to perceive and participate in the religious significance and mystery of this rite to have a new spiritual experience. The ceremonial preceptor highlights the key words of the Lord: "Whenever the Lord takes the bread and the cup and blesses them, whenever you eat and drink of these, remember me." It is very important to interpret and understand the central mysteries of these words while participating in this rite.
Today's text is a passage from the Old Testament that reveals the central figure of Solomon, known as the king of wisdom among the kings of Israel. In order to lead the most powerful and greatest royal family since King David, Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings at the temple in Jerusalem and prayed for God's grace. As a result, he became known as a king with unprecedented wisdom. This Solomon's wisdom is revealed here. Two women sued King Solomon over the life of each other. What is the secret of Solomon, the king of wisdom, who exquisitely judged and resolved the dispute between two women?
First, it is the wisdom to know the dignity of life. The criterion for distinguishing between the real and false endings is the dignity of 'life'. Recent theological interest in life is growing. The ecological solidarity and sympathy that is harassing humans and nature is also connected with the problem of Christian spirituality today.
When living things separate, they die. Living things can preserve their organic life only when they connect and serve each other, interacting with each other, but the choice of a false mother supported the principle of death by sharing the young life. Death is trampling on life, destroying it, and cutting it with knives.
Among the two sharply contrasting decisions of life and death, the selective value system of the real mother and the false mother was clear. The birth mother wanted the health and existence of the young life. The key difference between these two values is the difference in the dignity of life. Life is something that cannot be grasped by a one-dimensional understanding. Life is one-dimensional and objectively incomprehensible and incapable of capturing. A young life cannot be understood as life if we insist only on just and fair sharing in the principle of justice. The false mother, after all, did not see the secret of the child's life. Only those who know the secret of life are the true mother, and only the real mother conceived life, so they could know the secret of life.
Second, it is the wisdom to know the relationship of love. King Solomon made it possible to choose between the true mother and the false mother through the relationship of 'love' as another criterion.
The Christian teaching on love is also a central principle of faith. Love is greater than death. No, love is also the only way to overcome death and restore life. But love is accompanied by self-abandonment and pain.
Since the false mother, of course, had nothing to do with the child, the love relationship was not connected. There is a relational connection between life and life. The severance of this relationship is death. Death has nothing to do with it. A true mother and a child have a relationship of life, that is, a relationship of love. This love relationship is a combination of pain and suffering. In the selection of a love relationship, the true mother and the false mother are identified. True Mother knew and protected the relationship of love through the pain of giving up her possessions.
It is said that the modern society is a society where knowledge is extremely pervasive, but true wisdom is missing. Although knowledge can objectively describe and analyze the phenomena of life, is it too dogmatic to know the essence of life? True wisdom is knowing the relationship between life and love.
The mystery of the Lord's Supper is that Christianity becomes a community at the table of Jesus, eating and drinking together. Eating and drinking together is a motivation on a spiritual level beyond a material level. So, the Eucharist is a family ceremony of the faith community. The secret of this family ceremony is to remember Jesus Christ. Jesus He knows the dignity of life and gives life to us who are struggling with death. He is the One who gives life and wants to give it more abundantly. But the life that He gave is that he gave up on himself and gave us life through love. He is the one who testified of the relationship of love by giving up his life for a greater life. So we must remember this as we partake of sacrament meeting. The relationship between life and love.
Theologian Theatre Chardin said that the entire universe is converging toward the birth of Christ as we enter the age of the realm of life beyond the spiritual realm. The secret passage to this unity is that of Eucharistic solidarity. True Mother knew the secret of life and love.
Today, we participate in the holy rite of sharing the body and blood of the Lord. The secret of this experience is immense. It is a sense of solidarity between life and love. It is a sense of community connected to the great cosmic community. So, in this Eucharist, we continue the solidarity of the life and love of Christ by singing the universal anthem.