Amen.

Did you read of Chad’s experience at the bar during the Stanley Cup Finals? I was just reminded of it again in your understanding that it’s one’s job to make peace.

It is possible to hear majority and minority opinions within the tradition. I think we have to pick our ways carefully - and be open to those who pick otherwise.

But I’m not going to tackle someone in church for taking communion wrong - or the wrong way - nor can I see where we are asked to. In that parish, it would be my job to make peace, resist not evil, turn the other cheek and ask the bouncer to back the F down, in the name of Jesus she presumes to defend.

“The way to God lies through love of people. At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows and prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked, Did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoners. That is all I shall be asked. About every poor, hungry and imprisoned person the Savior says ‘I’: ‘I was hungry and thirsty, I was sick and in prison.’ To think that he puts an equal sign between himself and anyone in need. . . .”

St Maria of Paris.