A current mantra and the envy of Jesus

Was St Paul also motivated by envy? It would seem so, if the chanters of the mantra are to believed.

Ironically, the mantra is being chanted in the Commonwealth of Australia. Are those who are keen to intone this mantra opposed to any expressed commitment to the sharing of any common-wealth in Australia?

In this regard, again Jesus comes into view. In John's gospel (13:29) we read that Jesus and his disciples shared a common purse. And it is quite reasonable to conclude that, given both his concern for the poor and his leadership of the group, Jesus was the one who initiated that practice among them.

The noted contemporary Franciscan theologian, Richard Rohr, contributes the following thought pertinent to the current mantra being intoned:

There has been a permanent state of class warfare of the rich against the poor throughout history, but for some strange reason it is only called class warfare when it is the poor against the rich! [1]

The envious Jesus – the class-warfare inciting Jesus. Yes, it is hard to envisage that of Jesus. But that is what emerges in the wake of the mantra chant.