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TUESDAY, March 30 Tuesday in Holy Week
1 Corinthians 1:18-31. God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are.
The radical Roman Catholic theologian Hans Küng makes a point in one of his books that has stuck with me for a long time. He compares the way the various founders of the great world religions died. The Buddha departed this life surrounded by adoring disciples who realized that he was being transformed in a wonderful way as he died. Confucius died in the midst of aristocratic followers who supported him financially and hung on his every word. Mohammed died in the circle of his harem, in the arms of his favorite wife. Jesus of Nazareth died condemned as a criminal, alone and deserted by those whom he thought he could trust.
The Christian story starts with a human failure, who is at the same time the incarnate love of God. The story of the rise of the Christian church is, for all of its dark side of human wrongdoing, still filled with an amazing array of very broken people who, by God's power, did and said things that have overthrown the world in order to make way for another. By baptism you are one of them. (1987)
PRAY for the Diocese of Butare (Rwanda)
Ps 71:1-14; Isaiah 49:1-7; John 12:20-36
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