[Magdalen] A thought from Nadia

[Christopher Hart]

I got a chance to see/hear her in person a couple of years ago. She's
amazing.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>



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