The General Sherman tree, the largest living giant sequoia and the largest living tree on this planet is 275 feet tall and 25 feet wide at the base. Its trunk at the bottom is so massive that it would take about 20-25 people to stretch their arms and join hands to form a circle around this massive tree to hug this ancient giant. 

We too form a circle – the circle of our community, the ring of individual destinies and biographies formed around the supersensible being emerging in our midst, around the tiny green sprout springing from the age-old cross of the Golgotha hill, destined to become the Tree of Life of the future world.

And in as much as it may take 20 or 30 people to hold hands together to form a circle around a giant sequoia, whose development is only nominal now after 2,500 years of growth – it took generations of human beings before us, and it will take devotion, attention, and courage of many human beings in the future, to join hands and form One Community of Christ; To provide a vessel of consciousness for this great mystery emerging among us, the mystery of the altar table – the place and time of the meeting between man and God, between our past and our future, between the world of matter and the world of spirit.

Between death and new life.

Rev. Rafal Nowak

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