Week 9 - Monday

I liked a lot the idea of carnival, of turning the world upside down to show that things can be another way. It seems like it is a recurring theme in the Bible, and especially in the Gospels. The beatitudes are clearly set with this note. The mere idea of forgiveness of sins, grace, has this carnival theme.
The grieving find joy, the poor inherit the Earth, and the sinners are forgiven. In I Corinthians, Paul describes the message of the Gospel as foolishness, in the world’s perspective, and a few verses further:

“God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.”

Are we, as Christians and as a Church, open to this Carnival? Do we make ourselves servants and make the poor, the weak and the broken kings? Are we open to this perspective of the kingdom of God?

I know I have a lot of work to do on that side.