Hey Rod,<br>Thank you for passing this wonderful piece along. Reminds one of the strength and power we experienced in the OE.<br>Charles<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Rod Rippel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rodrippel@cox.net" target="_blank">rodrippel@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="peacepwr@cox.net" href="mailto:peacepwr@cox.net" target="_blank">Pauline</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 01, 2012 4:45 PM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Fw: Daily Meditation: Power and Powerlessness / Right and
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shortly before he died, that if he had to do his
Russian revolution over again, he would have
asked for ten Francises of Assisi rather than
more Bolsheviks. He realized that something
imposed by domination and violence from above
only creates the same mirrored response from
below. It is just a matter of time. He realized
that the only communism that would ever be
helpful to the world was the voluntary and
joyous simplicity of a Francis of Assisi. (As a
Franciscan, I am indeed a “communist” as we
share all things equally and from a common
purse.) That element of the practice of the
early church (<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001JWrBfQvQQdF_nVDBEuS-UzpqLXV9l5w0GO9DVJAnLi0CdGav1khXd4wNlarsrOF34EF24pD2BTn3BFCf1i04B8vNzZJv60ql8xOv1HYTfqan4A-943MX2iCgZ42Fjdtdu_wlJOd8K7GBlU_yHrNZSTYelqbA1yRlJWKx676JxaNHDDDmia1LbiHOFOCcMqio2gmeRrU4qr_1Mcc6uGwi0g==" target="_blank">Acts 2:44</a>) and of Jesus (<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001JWrBfQvQQdHO6J3XoANRWO5EVyHXWT8AdOnaIAHrlANJt1psTf-69B26fCR9rzLwm3n7wp3xPtSwICkEraUcu4ulh3I-g9vs7tBqcgpqgQvRcv9pUFnAjUmX6KomP4qZx2GKGqrviohMTYsurPhA9pM1p1MKp0AzmZfZlTbZ6HcjyJFtCF73S2pXMM9bb0pvBMVjC17ADQAjOQR_l-czjA==" target="_blank">John 13:29</a>) was never taught
with any great seriousness. It was never
expected of the clergy—certainly not of the
higher clergy—and therefore why would we, or
could we, ask it of the rest of the church?
Jesus was training the leaders, because you can
only ask of others what you yourselves have done
first. He was initiating them as spiritual
elders, much more than ordaining them as
“priests” (which is an Old Testament word never
used for his apostles).</p>
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place of advancement instead of downward
mobility, once ordination was not a form of
initiation but a continuation of patriarchal
patterns, the authentic preaching of the Gospel
became the exception rather than the
norm—whether Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant.
The first human “demon” that normally needs to
be exposed is the human addiction to power,
prestige, and possessions. These tend to pollute
everything.</p>
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doubt if we are going to fill the churches.</p>
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Stand</a></i>, pp. 95-96</p>
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