text: "Jesus had to go to Jerusalem because to avoid confronting the powers aligned against him would have been to admit the impotence of his own message.  Jesus wasn’t courting death.... He was simply teaching his disciples that his integrity demanded that he not hide from danger. He had to decide between being true to his message and saving his skin. He decided to leave the latter to God, trusting that his father would also give him the grace and strength to accomplish the former."
  How is it that the custodians of Jesus' message and "Person" in the world seem to have either missed that class or have deleted it from their "play book"? 
  How is it that these same custodians demand we trust, follow, have faith in them when they seem to have abandoned faith in "their/our Jesus?
  Young people see this and leave. The next generation will see that just walking away does not do justice to  the job. 
  Sacrament without transformation is not simply hollow; it is empty.