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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>in today’s Gospel Jesus rebukes James and John for their <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">desire for
vengeance</span>.</b></span> We are walking with Jesus and his disciples as they make
their way to Jerusalem. As they pass through Samaria, they are refused
hospitality, for their destination is Jerusalem and this annoys the
Samaritans. Bothersome? Stupid? Racist? Sure, all of those things. As a
result, James and John (the sons of thunder) cry out: “Lord, do you want
us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”</p>
<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> </p>
<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Can
you hear echoes of this cry up and down the ages? <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Whenever people have
been unjustly treated, excluded, looked down upon, they experience,
naturally enough, feelings of hatred and a desire to get back. </b></span>Correctly
enough, they will say that their family or their race or their country
was offended, and so they, with justification, react.</p>
<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> </p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
</b></span><p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But
Jesus turns only to rebuke</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>them. </b></span>Why? <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Because <u>following him and his way
of non-violence is more important than</u></b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>race or country or ethnic group</b></span>.
Our feelings for him have to go beyond even our justified feelings for
these good things.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="m_-5817307252766945146DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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