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It is a supreme irony that August 6th is not only the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, but also, for Christians, the Feast of the Transfiguration, that mysterious mountaintop event with a simple message, “listen to Jesus” – the one who wept over Jerusalem because its people did not recognise the things that belonged to their peace.
‘All men desire peace,’ wrote Thomas à Kempis, ‘but very few desire those things that make for peace’ Archbishop Rowan Williams makes a connection between the two events. “The apostles Peter, James and John saw what a human face could be. They knew that humanity could be the face worn by God. And whatever terrors, crimes and catastrophes might follow, nothing could extinguish that eternal light. Humans remain free to turn back to that light; to do so they need all the love and grace that Christ’s life and death and resurrection and Spirit can give, but it is never impossible.
In tomorrow’s gospel reading, we are reminded that Christian discipleship is about making such choices. Jesus is faced with a seemingly impossible challenge – feeding thousands of people. The disciples are overwhelmed and want to give in: “Send the crowds away,” they say, “so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” In other words, don’t ask us. But Jesus insists that they be fed.
Paul Tibbets, who had no regrets for what he was ordered to do, believing that it ended the war, did acknowledge that his actions were controversial and so directed that
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