Today
is, apparently, World Kindness Day. Kindness is surprisingly subversive. It is
also, and quite clearly if you look at the world and the ways in which we treat
one another, not a self-evident or universal virtue, not a given. Though
someone of any or no religious belief can show kindness, it is, profoundly, a
Judeo-Christian value. Here, then, are words taken from Paul’s letter to Titus,
words set for Holy Communion today:
“But
when the goodness and loving-kindness of God our Saviour appeared, he saved us,
not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to
his mercy...”
Titus
3:4, 5
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