"The Way" to Where, Exactly?

  Beware of anyone whose key concept is power.

 

   Some years ago I worked in a Catholic school which decided to assign summer reading to the entire school community, including both staff and students. The idea was to have a school wide discussion of the book in September focusing on some key component of our Catholic Identity.  The book chosen for the first year was a dystopian science fiction novel set in a future where water is a scarce commodity, and our "Catholic" theme seems to have been Climate Change (unfortunately, this was about the time of Laudato Si'). When I first saw the prepared questions we were given to guide the discussion with our students I was immediately struck with the fact that every single question was about "power": who had the power in this situation, what did so-and-so do with his power here, what sort of power could such-and-such a person apply there, etc.  

It all seemed very foreign to the Christian, Biblical worldview.  That's not the way St. Paul talks. In his Second Letter to the Corinthians he says, "but he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness . . .

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