Jesus Our Brother – The Humanity of the Lord

There is a glimmer of a simple truth, blithely forgotten during all the ecclesiological ruminations about Church and what it used to be, how it got sidetracked by papalism, and is so confused about us and our times. There is little, if anything, about Jesus in today's Church, as it is bespoke by curial figures and their selected look-a-likes around the world.
That glimmer was dim at first; then it started to glow. What is Church without Jesus? Whatever it was that woke me up to drop the concentration on figuring out ecclesiology and focus on Who is Jesus, turned my whole mind and being, especially soul, around and away from disputationism.
Fr. William Barry, SJ, had given me an insight a couple of years ago that God wants to be our friend. Rarely did I ever think that way. He got through the legal mind to help me admit that I feel the same way. Daniel Harrington, SJ, wrote Who is Jesus? Why is He Important. Wilfrid Harrington, OP, wrote Jesus Our Brother. The Humanity of the Lord. Now with two recent works, it is the humanity of Jesus which is dominant, almost as if he had been forgotten by concentrating on his divinity. Necessary conclusion? The Church is human, too, like its Lord.
When some of the humans who have the pulpits and the chanceries, with keys to the Vatican itself, talk up Churchism and its human constructs, like articles of faith, dogmas, rules and regulations, to say nothing of their own assertion of their unlimited authority and how they got it, they leave out the humanity of Jesus, and in that emptiness insert a God Son, who sits at the Right Hand in final judgment over all our peccadillos, big and little, particularly the ones the same authorities have determined are sins.
We are then commanded by the same people in charge, not to live, vivens homo, but to behave and please them. And so, we forget Jesus the Son of Man. Sad, really sad. And empty.