Today as we observe a day when an itinerant Jewish miracle worker and preacher came down from the Mount of Olives to enter Jerusalem surrounded by peasants who hoped he would bring liberation from the hated Roman occupiers, at the same time Pontius Pilate and a garrison of troops entered from the west to remind everyone that even as they celebrated a festival of freedom, they were still under Rome.
Pilate and the Roman governors before him lived at the imperial place in Caesarea on the coast of the Mediterranean, a far more pleasant place than Jerusalem. It was more than a clash of culture; it was, as some scholars point out, a clash of theology, of world views because Roman Emperors called themselves sons of the god Apollo.
How often even today, those who claim to hold power act as if they were ordained to such power. As Christians, we are to consider where true power should lie, not with those who see themselves ordained by God, but with the lowly and marginalized of our world. These are the people Jesus walked among and healed with word and deed. Are we not to do the same?
Prayer for the Day
Renew our hope, O God, the source of our faith.
Renew our faith, the source of our hope;
Awaken within us the power of your love so that our faith and hope
Are strong rather than weak, open rather than closed.
Grant, that we look not to the power of the world,
But to the inner power given by you and you alone.
In the name of the One who opens us to that power,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.
Monseñor Oscar Romero, March 23, 1980, assassinated March 24, 1980
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimké, feminist and abolitionist (1805-1879)
Hosanna! Blessed is the One who come in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest!
Mark 11: 9-10
Today as we observe a day when an itinerant Jewish miracle worker and preacher came down from the Mount of Olives to enter Jerusalem surrounded by peasants who hoped he would bring liberation from the hated Roman occupiers, at the same time Pontius Pilate and a garrison of troops entered from the west to remind everyone that even as they celebrated a festival of freedom, they were still under Rome.
Pilate and the Roman governors before him lived at the imperial place in Caesarea on the coast of the Mediterranean, a far more pleasant place than Jerusalem. It was more than a clash of culture; it was, as some scholars point out, a clash of theology, of world views because Roman Emperors called themselves sons of the god Apollo.
How often even today, those who claim to hold power act as if they were ordained to such power. As Christians, we are to consider where true power should lie, not with those who see themselves ordained by God, but with the lowly and marginalized of our world. These are the people Jesus walked among and healed with word and deed. Are we not to do the same?
Prayer for the Day
Renew our hope, O God, the source of our faith.
Renew our faith, the source of our hope;
Awaken within us the power of your love so that our faith and hope
Are strong rather than weak, open rather than closed.
Grant, that we look not to the power of the world,
But to the inner power given by you and you alone.
In the name of the One who opens us to that power,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.
Monseñor Oscar Romero, March 23, 1980, assassinated March 24, 1980
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimké, feminist and abolitionist (1805-1879)
Hosanna! Blessed is the One who come in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest!
Mark 11: 9-10
Today as we observe a day when an itinerant Jewish miracle worker and preacher came down from the Mount of Olives to enter Jerusalem surrounded by peasants who hoped he would bring liberation from the hated Roman occupiers, at the same time Pontius Pilate and a garrison of troops entered from the west to remind everyone that even as they celebrated a festival of freedom, they were still under Rome.
Pilate and the Roman governors before him lived at the imperial place in Caesarea on the coast of the Mediterranean, a far more pleasant place than Jerusalem. It was more than a clash of culture; it was, as some scholars point out, a clash of theology, of world views because Roman Emperors called themselves sons of the god Apollo.
How often even today, those who claim to hold power act as if they were ordained to such power. As Christians, we are to consider where true power should lie, not with those who see themselves ordained by God, but with the lowly and marginalized of our world. These are the people Jesus walked among and healed with word and deed. Are we not to do the same?
Prayer for the Day
Renew our hope, O God, the source of our faith.
Renew our faith, the source of our hope;
Awaken within us the power of your love so that our faith and hope
Are strong rather than weak, open rather than closed.
Grant, that we look not to the power of the world,
But to the inner power given by you and you alone.
In the name of the One who opens us to that power,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.
Monseñor Oscar Romero, March 23, 1980, assassinated March 24, 1980
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimké, feminist and abolitionist (1805-1879)
Hosanna! Blessed is the One who come in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest!
Mark 11: 9-10