The blood of Jesus became the vaccine to cure our addiction to reciprocal abuse and retaliatory violence. Week after week we partake of the Eucharist so that we might be agents of healing in a wounded world. Christians are to be carriers of the new contagion of forgiveness. In a world where the capacity for retaliatory violence is nearly infinite, forgiveness is our only sane and saving option. In a world of conflict every side sees the righteousness of their own cause, but the only righteousness that can save the world is the righteousness that imitates Christ in forgiveness.
