1. Rituals, like the liturgy and the sacraments, resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.
  2. The combination of the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection mean the present is transformed forever.
  3. There is absence in that all we have is an empty tomb, but presence because, while the tomb is empty, Christ is alive with a gloriously transformed body and with us!
  4. You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
  5. Jesus is coronated on the Cross. It would be from Golgotha where Jesus will reign over the kingdoms of the earth.

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