[Magdalen] A thought from Nadia

[Grace Cangialosi]

Yeah, I love her, too!

> On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:05 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From Nadia Bolz Weber
> 
> Here’s what I have to say about Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday,
> Good Friday and the Easter Vigil):
> 
> Two thousand years ago in the middle-east, there had to have been crowds
> who shouted praise and friends who betrayed and followers who denied and
> women who wept and soldiers who mocked and thieves who believed. It would
> have happened like this even if the Jesus event were happening now instead
> of then. Even if we knew everything in advance – were we the ones on the
> street we too would shout Hosanna and a few days later shout crucify him.
> And that’s the good news when it comes down to it. Because these people of
> the Holy Week story are we people. And we people are the likes of which God
> came to save. God did not become human and dwell among us as Jesus to save
> only an improved, doesn’t make the wrong choices kind of people. There is
> no improved version of humanity that could have done any differently. So go
> ahead. Don’t wait until you think your motivations are correct. Don’t wait
> till you are sure you believe every single line of the Nicene creed (no one
> does all the time!). Don’t worry about coming to church this week for the
> right reasons. Just wave branches. Shout praise for the wrong reason. Eat a
> meal. Have your feet washed. Grab at coins. Shout Crucify him. Walk away
> when the cock crows. Because we, as we are and not as some improved version
> of ourselves…we are who God came to save. And nothing can stop what’s going
> to happen.
> 
> -- Nadia Bolz Weber