“I have set you an example…”

THE FEAST OF MAUNDY THURSDAY (Year C)
When you come to this meal, you have a chance to align yourselves with this alternative vision of God in Jesus Christ and give witness to its values, which stand opposed to the values of the world. Here you have an opportunity to pledge yourself to participate in the subversion of pyramids of power that benefit the strong and oppress the weak. … More “I have set you an example…”

Honor Christ and His Cross

Palm Sunday (Year B)
To the extent that we do not come to an awareness like that of the centurion and Paul, then we inevitably mock Christ – we mock Christ in the pretensions of our superiority, in the pretensions of our submission to Empire, in the pretensions of our singular image of God – basically, in all our pretensions that do not revel community, justice, peace, and love. It is our own fatal folly.
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