The Ecumenical Affair

The Ecumenical Affair is a story that takes place as representatives of the world’s Christian Churches assemble. As the word “Affair” suggests, two people find themselves together in an upper room after sundown.

Many people inside the Church are familiar with the story of Nicodemus and how he met with Jesus under the cover of darkness..after sundown.

Nicodemus was the Teacher of Israel and a member of the council. He was a trusted teacher. Why did he risk his reputation by meeting with Jesus alone, after sundown? Did he loose his head?

The Ecumenical Affair is a mirror story. It mirrors the story of Nicodemus and Jesus to reveal the Woman Jesus called Mary. The Nicodemus Story is followed by the Story known as the Woman of “Sum Maria.” For those who know Latin, she is the Woman Jesus who stands with other bitterly treated women saying “I am Maria.” For the Greeks she is the Photini, the Light of John’s Gospel.

The Mystery of the Trinity is like a tangled code, a cryptogram or a combination of interwoven symbolic characters. Without the Woman Jesus called Mary, there would be no Holy Spirit, no Vesica Piscis. There would be no tangled web, no big reveal, no crucifixion, and no resurrection.

The Woman in The Ecumenical Affair knows this. So she heads out to the 6th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. There she meets the Greek who like Nicodemus is the “Orthodox” Teacher, the one the counsel members consider to be their plumb line. He is the one the counsel members turn to when issues arise concerning scriptural interpretation. However, the Woman is the one the rabble of the assembly easily recognize and identify as the Woman Jesus. As the story unfolds, the tension mounts. The Woman knows she’s in an adulterous trap. The Greek knows he is not the Light, nor the Christ. He knows the Bride belongs to the Bridegroom and the Woman knows that that the man whom she’s married is not the Bridegroom, the Gift of God waiting for her.

Hidden in the silence that quilts The Ecumenical Affair is the word blasphemy. Has the Woman blasphemed? Has the Greek? Have I? What do you think?

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