{"id":101271,"date":"2024-03-25T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/?p=101271"},"modified":"2024-03-22T08:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:27:22","slug":"living-in-the-web-of-reciprocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/25\/living-in-the-web-of-reciprocity\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday of Holy Week: Living in the Web of Reciprocity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BY <a href=\"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/blog\/author\/jimrobinson\/\">JIM ROBINSON, PH.D<\/a><\/strong> | <em>March 25th, 2024<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/032524.cfm\">Today&#8217;s readings<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/25\/promoviendo-la-r\u2026-la-reciprocidad\/\"><em>Versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/e6d52858-d81c-41c8-b1ef-454d1addadf2\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In today\u2019s gospel, Mary anoints the feet of Jesus with an expensive, perfumed oil, and then dries them with her hair. This is a radical act of ecstatic, abundant, embodied love that is personalist to the core. And yet, as the flowing oil\u2019s aroma fills the room, Judas remains frozen in criticism. Outwardly, he insincerely suggests that the oil could have been sold, and the proceeds \u201cgiven to the poor.\u201d Inwardly, he ponders the money he might have stolen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s consider this scene alongside Robin Wall Kimmerer\u2019s vision of \u201cgift economies,\u201d which she distinguishes from market economies. While market economies are driven by scarcity, competition, and accumulation, gift economies are guided by a sense of shared abundance, a recognition that \u201cthere is enough if we share it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In gift economies, \u201cthe currency of exchange is gratitude and relationship rather than money.\u201d For Kimmerer, \u201cto name the world as gift,\u201d rather than commodity, means \u201cto feel one\u2019s membership in the web of reciprocity.\u201d Within this web, to flourish is to foster generative, generous relationships, rather than feeding the \u201cillusion of self-sufficiency.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This illusion enraptured Judas. He wanted to snip his thread from the wider web of life. He perceived creation through the lens of money, rather than as gift. Mary models a life lived within a circle of shared abundance. She receives the gifts of life and pours them out on her beloved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101272 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/03.25.24-featured-Jim-Robinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/03.25.24-featured-Jim-Robinson.jpg 845w, https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/03.25.24-featured-Jim-Robinson-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/03.25.24-featured-Jim-Robinson-80x43.jpg 80w, https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/03.25.24-featured-Jim-Robinson-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/03.25.24-featured-Jim-Robinson-705x375.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guided by Mary and Kimmerer, we might ask ourselves: how can we relate to creation as an abundance of gifts to be shared, rather than a collection of commodities to be possessed? How will we restructure the systems that violate these gifts and defy the will of their Giver?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Lent, I find myself called to live into phrases I hear frequently in the halls, kitchen, and auditorium at Maryhouse Catholic Worker. I find myself called to aid in \u201cbuilding the new in the shell of the old,\u201d by stepping into circles of sharing, where it is \u201ceasier to be good.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This illusion enraptured Judas. He wanted to snip his thread from the wider web of life. He perceived creation through the lens of money, rather than as gift. Mary models a life lived within a circle of shared abundance. 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