Holy Week

This is the daily meditation from Richard Rohr:



Question of the day: How have you experienced true freedom?

"The greatest among you must behave as if you were the youngest, the leader as if he were the one who serves" (Luke 22:26). That statement is probably the simplest and most powerful one about the Christian definition of authority to be found in all four gospels.

"For who is the greater, the one at table or the one who serves?" The world would say immediately, "The one at table." He says, "Surely, yet, here I am among you as one who serves" (Luke 22:27). Jesus says, in effect, "I'm telling you that the world's way will not work. The essence of true freedom is the freedom to serve other people—to wait upon them."