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Pagina 11 van 29

“Must ‘learn repeatedly that God’s greatness is different from our idea of greatness… because we systematically desire a God of success and not of the Passion’. These words of Pope Benedict XVI candidly acknowledge that we are always tempted to seek a God who ‘serves’ us, who grants us victory, who proves useful like wealth or power. Yet we fail to perceive that God does indeed serve us through the gratuitous and humble gesture of washing feet. This is the true omnipotence of God”.