Murilo Oliveira
Brazil, March 4, 2024.
From the little I know about Waldorf pedagogy, there are two major dates in the calendar of this pedagogical line that perhaps should not be ignored here in my usual considerations, already a little forgotten. They are: Pesach and Michaelmas. What is important to consider in relation to what I call the two largest currents of Christianity? Firstly, it is worth saying that Michaelmas perhaps refers to the September equinox, by approximation. What is the perfect meaning of the date celebrated according to nature in my opinion: balance! Day and night of equal duration, a fair judgment, a properly balanced scale.
But what about Pesach? What I believe to be the continent of what I call the two great currents of Christianity, in its broadest sense, is certainly renewal, rebirth! In time, what I call the two main currents of Christianity in a personal way in my particular way of seeing refers to the dialectic that exists between what I call the Kingdom of Branches and the Kingdom of the Passion.
Holy Week for the Christian liturgy, and I grew up in Vale do Paraíba in São Paulo, which I consider to be the most conservative Christian Catholic as possible by Brazilian standards, has meanings and moments that make me look for syntheses of us in their most varied dimensions constantly. One that I started rehearsing a while ago is about Palm Sunday and Good Friday.
In the precarious way that this dialectic has existed for me so far, the first impression that I try to rehearse is that there are, from small family groups to perhaps Christianity in a broad sense, cults that privilege the liturgy of one date or another, however close they may seem. . I return to these considerations in a very informal way, as I usually do when I believe that the Royal Family of the United Kingdom is trying to privilege the symbolism of Easter at this moment. And here comes my great difficulty in this regard, how to explain one and the other without creating an immense division within one, including having been raised within a cult that favors one of these liturgies much more than the other. I am going to try!
I think that both are perhaps redemptive, this in principle seems logical to me, they refer to a profound redemption as all of Christianity seems to me. But where does my inquiry live? One looks sunny and the other dark. Where I repeat, neither escapes or should escape Christianity’s central conception of a broad and profound redemption. Often, the sunny conception of this would say that sin is such a constant in life, that the kingdom is the fun and politically incorrect place. And on the other hand, in the same detail, sin is something so serious and crucial in our lives, that the kingdom must be the very orderly place within a great impasse.
In other words, Easter, regardless of the diversity of Kingdoms in Christianity that I mention here, namely the Kingdom of Ramos and the Kingdom of the Passion, invariably has the unequivocal sense of rebirth, and this is in the sense of the whole of the celebrations, certainly in all Abrahamic religions. And it’s a sense that I really like and always intend to preserve.
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