27/12/2021
One of my fav speeches from Archbishop Desmond Tutu.....
*~~"Acceptance Speech for the Père Marquette Discovery Award ~ at Marquette University ~ Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA) ~ Date: February 12, 2003 ~~*
The takeaway lines that speak to my spirit:
- God's stewards operating on behalf of God with God in tandem as co-creators, as collaborators to have dominion over the rest of God's creation.
- And yet a paradoxical feature of our success-oriented societies is that these hard-nosed, often cynical ones revere not the macho, the aggressive ones. No, it is such as a Mother Theresa, a Mahatma Ghandi, a Martin Luther King, Jr., a Dalai Lama, a Nelson Mandela. Now in different ways they have been our leaders who have reflected a divine pattern of power vulnerable, weak, persuasive, kenotic.
- * FAV * - God asks us to be agents of transfiguration; the God who could transfigure an instrument of the most excruciatingly painful and shameful death so that it becomes the source of a tingling, effervescent, bubbling eternal life.
- Ultimately, it is the power of the cross that overcomes evil and death. It is the power of love that overcomes hate. Unless we take up our cross to follow our Master, we cannot be his disciples.
- * FAV * - God weeps as God looks on what we are doing, on what we are contemplating doing to one other. The just war theory, amongst other things, postulates that a legitimate authority declares and wages war. (AND HE MENTIONS 'THE JUST WAR THEORY' - google it, especially all those Catholics so obsessed with abortion, but are disgracefully silent about the industrial military complex (war)
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