I have often spoke and written about paradox, why I think it is meaningful, and how we can use it to better understand our beautiful Catholicism. Just as allegory in the biblical world becomes a metaphor, in the same manner, paradox becomes an analogy. The mystery of our faith demands we understand what it means when we say both these, and this also. Two contradictory elements which are in themselves complementary demonstrates the mystery. As Catholics, we are forced to the conclusion that problems have a definitive answer and mysteries do not. We revere the mystery just as wise people seek out problems because they need their gifts. Jesus’ answers were frequently, better questions. His answers were often outside the parameters of the question. He spoke in parables and morality stories using the locations and audiences as His scenery.  All of this, in an effort to direct His followers to go beyond their thinking and into a mental imagery inspired by His revolutionary message.

Jesus lived in a world of unending matrix. Nothing wasted, nothing without meaning. Nothing going unnoticed. His followers spoke of Him as the corner-stone, and He was the keystone in the archway between worldly and divine. How many times do we hear Jesus asking His disciples to go beyond themselves, out of the practical world of this and that, and into the world of the greatest paradox of all? There He stood in front of them as entity and singularity, the physical precursor of the Trinity.  He is both these and this also. In our image and likeness of Him, we express the psychological, the philosophical and the worldly. He expresses all of these worldly attributes and He is ecclesial, spiritual and  mystical.  

So, where do we go from here? I say we go to His Church, into the building, where we find the physical and definitive expression of the Real Presence. We enter into the liturgy and sacraments, where the practical meets the transcendental; where the visible meets the mystical; where the signs and symbols meet the fruit; where we can become the cause and the effect, His mystical body,  His hands and feet.