Friday, September 13, 2019

Making Peace … entrusted with reconciliation

Morning: Psalms 40, 54; I Kings 18:20-40; Philippians 3:1-16;
Evening: Psalms 46, 87; I Kings 8:22-30; Ephesians 2:11-22

St. Paul teaches that the Way of Jesus is the way of reconciliation … breaking down the walls and hostility that divide us … Making Peace.  Peace is costly, though.  Jesus must absorb the hostility of those who crucify him and thereby defeat hatred.  Hatred has its roots in the fear of those who are different from us.  Jesus’ strong Love overcomes fear and overwhelms hostility.  When you follow on the Way of Jesus you, too, are entrusted with the work of reconciliation in the world; you accept that this work is now yours.

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