The American Agenda
(Who’s Covered? Is it a Cover-up?)
The title refers to the first one hundred days when the Republicans in Congress vied with the Clinton administration for leadership and command of new solutions for social issues.
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The Cry of the Poor
We make visible in Christ for what is lacking (to the tangibility of the senses). Col. 1:24
Christ is present in the needfulness of our poverty. We need the poor so that we can touch our poverty of life. The poor indeed create in us the power to be servants of compassion, 2 Cor. 1:5, a life of passionate thanksgiving for a sustaining God.
The poor empower us to become servants in the likeness of Christ, the Suffering Servant.
Their need fills what is wanton in us, giving dimension to our compassion.
Prophet
Fire tried in the heat of the day is his formation.
His word is spoken with the experience of the conflict and the tension of dailiness. Embracing the effort to live interactively, while centered, the Prophet remains a paradox. He is a mediating image carving an incomplete vision of the call to compassion.