We touch Him where He is risen

At the heart of our faith stands Christ
calling us to draw near enough to Him that He might touch us
- and we might touch Him.

And how might we touch Him?

We touch Him where He is risen – in the lives of others.

• The risen Jesus call us to touch one another
with tenderness, consolation, compassion and healing.

• We’re called to touch our neighbors in supporting them,
lifting them up, mending their brokenness, bearing their burdens
and holding them secure.

• Jesus especially asks us to touch those who are deemed
UN-touchable:
the diseased, the outcast, the different, the marginalized;
and all those “untouchables,” in my life and yours,
who are on the other side of our anger, our resentment,
our selfishness and stubbornness and our grudges.

• Jesus invites us to touch the divine presence wherever it is found
in creation: in nature, in the heavens, in the earth, in the oceans,
in everything that lives and breathes.

Ours is a faith of touching, because we are a sacramental church
and at the heart of who we are as God’s people
stands the Risen Jesus, inviting us: Touch me and see…