Song of praise to Jesús

Song of praise to Jesús

Alternate version

Preliminary Note

I wrote this second Song of praise to Jesus, because when reciting my prayers and the original Song of praise to Jesus, I experienced that Christian fervor, —that of early disciples and that of later Christians,— had reinterpreted and changed the most basic and fundamental attitude of Jesus: his relationship with God.

Jesus, the peasant of Nazareth, was always the Servant of Yahveh (Matthew 12.18; Isaiah 42.1), no more. The most perfect human servant of God.

We encounter that reinterpretation of Jesus in some, not all, writings of the New Testament; this has caused great pain to me in my last years; Jesus didn't want it at all! Jesus, the modest, simple human being of Galilee, wanted only the glory of God, whom he called also Father, of course, not only his but of all mankind. He didn't want and never asked, I underline never, for glory for himself, much less to be worshiped as God and identified with God. That would be blasphemy for him.

It is very little that I am able to do, to put the Christian movement on the right track in our present time, much less in history; but this modest endeavor of the page "Christianity..." is one step in the right direction.

I know that this also sounds like a blasphemy for some, but it would be better and the right thing to do, if the disciples of Jesus, today, reconsider the teachings of Jesus, not what the piety and fervor of some, in early times and after, reinterpreted about him.

This alternative Song of praise to Jesus reflects, in my opinion, some of the intimate and personal relationships of Jesus with Yahveh, the God whom Jesus worship.

Song of praise to Jesús

Alternative version

Jesus, you are not the Christ depicted in the gospels (in Luke 24.39-43; John 20.24-29; 21.9-14), as I have said in another prayer. You are a different Jesus. You are the glorified Jesus, who lives in God, free of the bindings of matter.

There is, in reality, very little that we know about you, and we lack categories to have a concept of your being. Given our limitation we can only conjecture that, as a being belonging to the "beyond," you share divine attributes and are able to be present in this creation. It would be ridiculous and arrogant to believe that we know how your being is.

We believe, Jesus, that God has given you a special power; that you are a manifestation and presence of the love and care of God for us; that we should live and act as you; and that our praise to God should be always with you. But other cultures might interpret you in a different way.