<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you Ron,</div><div><br></div><div>This is so appropriate for our times as Canada too descends down the path of imperial violence in ways one would have thought impossible. Jesus continues to be crucified all over the world in Gaza, Ukraine and Russia, Sudan, Haiti, Myanmar and we refuse to take the teaching of the nonviolent Jesus seriously. John Dear's book the Gospel of Peace is an excellent resource for understanding Jesus's teachings of nonviolence</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Easter to All</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM Ron MacDonell via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite">
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This is the day of ultimate imperial violence — the execution of one deemed a traitor to the state. Today’s post is a contemporary visual meditation on the violence suffered long ago by Jesus.<span> </span></p>
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<strong>Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander</strong><span><span> </span>and the religious officials arrested Jesus.<span> </span></span></p>
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<strong>So they bound Jesus,<span> </span></strong><span>led him away and handed him over to Pilate.</span></p>
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<strong>Pilate asked whether the man was a Galilean.</strong><span><span> </span>And when he learned that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time…Herod questioned
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That same day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other; before this they had been enemies.</p>
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<strong>Pilate then called together</strong><span><span> </span>the chief priests, the leaders, and the people and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people; and here I have examined him in your
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<strong>Then they all shouted out together,</strong><span><span> </span>“Away with this fellow! Release Barabbas for us!” (This was a man who had been put in prison for an insurrection that had taken place in the city, and for
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Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again; but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”<span> </span></p>
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A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no ground for the sentence of death; I will therefore have him flogged and then release him.”</p>
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But they kept urgently demanding with loud shouts that he should be crucified; and their voices prevailed.<span> </span></p>
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<strong>So Pilate gave his verdict that their demand should be granted.<span> </span></strong><span>He released the man they asked for, the one who had been put in prison for insurrection and murder, and he handed Jesus over
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<strong>Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard</strong><span><span> </span>of the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters); and they called together the whole cohort. And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after
 twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on him. And they began saluting him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They struck his head with a reed, spat upon him, and knelt down in homage to him. After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put
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<strong>Two others also, who were criminals, were led away</strong><span><span> </span>to be put to death with him…</span></p>
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<span>One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him…. But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve
 for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into</span><sup style="font-size:0.75em;line-height:0"><span> </span></sup><span>your kingdom.”He replied, “Truly I tell you,
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<span>To destroy that which we were given</span><br>
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<span>our bodies existing before and after us<span> </span></span><br>
<span>in clod and cloud, worm and tree,<span> </span></span><br>
<span>that we, driving or driven, despise<span> </span></span><br>
<span>in our greed to live, our haste<span> </span></span><br>
<span>to die. To have lost, wantonly,<span> </span></span><br>
<span>the ancient forests, the vast grasslands<span> </span></span><br>
<span>in our madness, the presence<span> </span></span><br>
<span>in our very bodies of our grief.</span></p>
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