What do you think would happen if Jesus had been around today?
I think he would find the same reality, the same reaction that he got. People will find him incredulous, there'd be some people that would be attracted by him. There'd be others that would say "What's he looking for in all this?" There'd be people in authority who will feel, "You know, I like what he's about but I'm afraid of losing my own power". I think all that Jesus did then, will be repeated even today, because human nature in the same two thousand years ago as it is today. There are people who are Power; who want to make the decisions, there are people who are powerless and therefore would be attracted by what they see in Christ. There'd be people who are looking for healing, people who are looking for forgiveness, people who want to be belonging to something, and people who'd feel threatened by what he's doing. And it's happening today - Christ doesn't have to come - that people are being rejected because they haven't got the money. They're poor, they're alcoholic, they're drunk. As a matter of fact, one of the things that you said that what distresses you most is actually seeing people, especially alcoholic, and a sense of losing complete sense of their dignity, and it's awful to see that, when you know it is a human person with so much dignity in them, and somehow they've lost it all, and they feel they've lost it. And there's a great sadness into my life. Christ continues to suffer today, in the people who are insignificant, and the people who are suffering through illness and all that kind of thing. So in a sense, he is around today, in the suffering as well as in the good news that's happening in our world. It's about being able to discern it today, and there are some people who'd say, Mother Teresa, for example, some people would accuse her of not running the hospitals well, and the sisters didn't look after the patients well. And yet, she was there, looking after the dying and the sick, when no one else was tending them. So, its happening today.
