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10/23/26 Kintsugi · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: I've had occasion recently to talk to various people about a Japanese art form
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  SPEAKER_00: that I love called kintsuji.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kintsuji is an art in which usually a clay pot of some sort
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  SPEAKER_00: that has been broken is put back together with a resin mixed with gold dust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those original pot that maybe had sentimental value or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is now reassembled and is made into something of incredible value.
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  SPEAKER_00: When at the beginning, it was just something very simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was thinking of this in relation to the great doxology that we have at the end of
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  SPEAKER_00: the Eucharistic prayer,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is through him,
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  SPEAKER_00: with him and in him in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
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  SPEAKER_00: all glory and honor is yours, almighty father forever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a prayer that often ends prayers.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's similar to the Glory Be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are prayers giving glory to God, and they come from the Hebrew tradition of the Kaddish.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Kaddish is a prayer of glory to God,
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  SPEAKER_00: oftentimes a funeral prayer of glory to God,
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  SPEAKER_00: actually giving glory and praise to God even when someone has died.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there were Jewish people who in Auschwitz would sing the Kadesh,
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  SPEAKER_00: giving glory to God even in the face of incredible, unbelievable suffering and pain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's a very powerful message from our liturgy.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we say that doxology,
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  SPEAKER_00: as we lift up the gifts,
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  SPEAKER_00: we lift up the bread and wine that has become the body and blood of Jesus Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: we lift up ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we've talked about before, bread and wine symbolize our sufferings.
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  SPEAKER_00: They symbolize our self-giving.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bread is from wheat that's round down, broken apart.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wine is from grapes that have been pressed.
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  SPEAKER_00: This suffering that has become a part of the sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we lift that up and give glory and thanks and praise to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because there is no suffering,
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  SPEAKER_00: not because there is no brokenness,
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  SPEAKER_00: but precisely because through this suffering and this brokenness,
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  SPEAKER_00: we have been redeemed.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I loved that image of Kintsugi, that it puts us back together.
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  SPEAKER_00: God puts us back together, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're all broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all have problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: We sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: We experience sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: We experience tragedy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God doesn't put us back together with glue and just make us more or less.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's this broken pot that's, you know, kind of limping along.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, God puts us back together with gold and makes us into something beautiful
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  SPEAKER_00: and precious that never would have been without the brokenness.
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  SPEAKER_00: That Christ in his sacrifice, in his Eucharist, he comes to us to give us his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which turns suffering, sin, brokenness into glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has made our lives infinitely more valuable and glorious
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  SPEAKER_00: than they ever could have been if they had never been broken.