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Friends,
today in the Gospel Jesus describes the world’s violent resistance to
the establishment of God’s kingdom. From the earliest days until the
present, the community of Jesus Christ has been the focus of the world’s
violence. There is the old principle: “Kill the messenger,” and it
applies here. The Church will announce, until the end of time, that the
old world is passing away, that a new world of love, non-violence, and
life is emerging. This announcement always infuriates the world of
sin—always. The twentieth century proved this by being the bloodiest on
record, and the century with the most martyrs.
Jesus
promises to give us “a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries
will be powerless to resist or refute.” What do we do in the meantime?
We maintain a detachment from this world which is passing away, our eyes
fixed on the world that will never end. And we speak—confidently,
boldly, provocatively—the message of the Gospel, the dying and rising of
the Lord.”
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