HOLY DISSIDENCE

JESUS, YOU DIDN'T HESITATE TO CALL FOR A NEW DAY. YOU STOOD FAST AGAINST THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT. A GOVERNMENT THAT WAS UNJUST, AND ONCE AGAIN ENSLAVING YOU TO THEIR LABOR INTENSIVE PROFIT-MAKING. YOU WERE STEADFAST IN YOUR OBJECTION. SO MUCH SO THAT IT GOT YOU HANGED AS A DISSIDENT OF THE STATE. GIVE US THE STRENGTH NOW TO DO THE SAME. HELP US TO STAND UP AGAINST AN EVIL THAT RACISM AND FEAR ELECTED. YOU, MAKING REGIME CHANGE; STANDING UP TO LONG-ESTABLISHED PRIESTLY POWER; YOU, USHERING IN NEW HOPE AND NEWNESS. ALL THE OLD REGIMES: MONEY AND POWER, PRIVILEGE AND ENTITLEMENT, RACISM AND FEAR, ARE ALL IN QUESTION IN FRONT OF YOUR MERCY AND RADICAL NEWNESS. JESUS, HELP US MAKE THINGS WHOLE AGAIN. HELP US RECLAIM OUR BELIEF THAT WHAT WE SEE IN YOUR LIFE WE CAN RECLAIM IN OUR OWN.