Go to the edges. Saint Paul, who gave Christians our underlying narrative of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection as a drama of redemption, always tied the story of Jesus closely to pleas for mutual deference and service. “There must be no competition among you, no conceit,” he wrote the Philippians, “but everyone is to be self-effacing. Always consider the other person to be better than yourself, so that nobody thinks of his own interests first but everyone thinks of other people’s interests instead” (Phil 2: 3-4). So, this week if you would draw near to Jesus in his suffering and death, take on the mind of the one who humbled himself and assumed our human vulnerability and mortality (Phil 2:5-7). “Go to the edges,” as Pope Francis likes to say, draw close to the poor, the uneducated, the sick and impaired, the intellectually challenged, the frail elderly, especially those suffering dementia, and serve them. For that is where Christ himself would be. That is where Christ wants us to be.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 22:58:27 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015