“For if this is what is done to green wood, what will be done when the wood is dry?”

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On Palm Sunday, in the Passion Reading of Luke’s Gospel (23:1-49), Jesus makes an analogy to the treatment to Himself with our fragile Earth that is so evocative as to be worthy of a quotation about our environment (23:28-31)

 But Jesus turned to them and said, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep rather for yourselves and for your children.

29 For look, the days are surely coming when people will say, “Blessed are those who are barren, the wombs that have never borne children, the breasts that have never suckled!”

30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”; to the hills, “Cover us!”

31 For if this is what is done to green wood, what will be done when the wood is dry?’

 

 

 

 

 

 

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