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The Wisdom of the Lord "has struck root among the glorious people." (Sirach 2412) Wisdom is found in unexpected places, in unlikely people. Take the clown, for example -- the professional fool. In recent years clown ministry has emerged as a viable means of reaching people, of sharing the good news of Jesus, of commenting on the injustices of life. At the funeral of such a clown, the homilist, Rev. Matthew Fox, had this to say about the life of this particular clown.
It was here also that the extraordinary became ordinary. Here was a way to tell the emperor that he was ordinary, that is, naked and like the rest of us. It was here ... that empires could be dismantled; that weapons could be turned into plowshares; that human creativity could be used to make play with, make music with, make fun with, make healing with, make ritual with, make celebration with instead of to make bombs with ... this compassionate clown showed us the way to see through differences and barriers of ethnic, religious, racial, economic divisions. What is this way? It is imagination. Prophetic imagination. (Matthew Fox, O. P., reported in National Catholic Reporter, August 28, 1981, p. 5.)
-- Grossmann
The Wisdom of the Lord "has struck root among the glorious people." (Sirach 2412) Wisdom is found in unexpected places, in unlikely people. Take the clown, for example -- the professional fool. In recent years clown ministry has emerged as a viable means of reaching people, of sharing the good news of Jesus, of commenting on the injustices of life. At the funeral of such a clown, the homilist, Rev. Matthew Fox, had this to say about the life of this particular clown.
It was here also that the extraordinary became ordinary. Here was a way to tell the emperor that he was ordinary, that is, naked and like the rest of us. It was here ... that empires could be dismantled; that weapons could be turned into plowshares; that human creativity could be used to make play with, make music with, make fun with, make healing with, make ritual with, make celebration with instead of to make bombs with ... this compassionate clown showed us the way to see through differences and barriers of ethnic, religious, racial, economic divisions. What is this way? It is imagination. Prophetic imagination. (Matthew Fox, O. P., reported in National Catholic Reporter, August 28, 1981, p. 5.)
-- Grossmann
