Screen Shot 2018-03-05 at 12.32.46 PMJesus Christ

By Daniel Berrigan

 

  1. The gospel of Jesus is spoken in a world

intoxicated with death

mesmerized by death

convinced of the necessary rule of death

technologizing death

acceding to the omnipresence of death

 

  1. And Jesus says No

to this omnivorous power.

So his word makes the slight

all but imperceptible difference

(which is finally the only difference).

A good man, himself powerless,

stands at the side of powerless men

and says to death No

for them for himself.

 

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