Gadflies
‘¡Todos, todos, todos!’ does correspond to divine intention. But we must freely choose to form part of this totality on Christ’s terms, to be where he, the origin of all things, is.
The Philosopher Socrates likened himself to a gadfly whose mission it was to dispel Athenian self-satisfied complacency. There was something gadfly-like about Pope Francis. It was not always comfortable to be around him. He challenged us, and constrained us, to seek clarity in diverse circumstances, to work out what things are really about in order, then, to make responsible choices and to live credibly as Christians. Now this servant of God has come to the end of his earthly existence. What a load he carried!
