The pop culture manipulates the masses and has created quite a mess. As we think of our political classes, the Hollywood cult, and the spokespersons of sports, we quickly discover that “The Great Man or Woman has disappeared, and we are left with and led by as TS Elliot opined, “men without chests.” This is because many have achieved a great name based on the false opinion of the masses. As Marshal McLuhan said, “the medium is the message” and the media has created cardboard cutouts with character as thin as tissue paper.
Great men and great women are to be measured by the virtue of truth in their personhood rather than by popular esteem. It is the quality of their actions and not the extent of their dominion that reveals true greatness. The media manufactures heroes and Hollywood produces superheroes. But the fact is we are living in a world without heroes.
However, true greatness and true celebrity are seen in the hero from Nazareth. Jesus came to accept the consequences of others’ sins in a way no ordinary man could possibly do. As Saint Anselm reminds us, "Jesus came into the world not out of curiosity, nor out of any sense of personal need. The Father sent the Son on an errand of mercy, solely to accomplish man’s redemption.” Such an accomplishment indeed that Napoleon on his deathbed declared;
“I die before my time and my body shall be given back to earth and devoured by worms. What an abysmal gulf exists between my deep miseries and the eternal kingdom of Christ. I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of myself, Alexander the Great, and of Caesar should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant, Jesus, should be able to stretch his hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.”
Jesus is the king who has authority, a prophet with God’s message, and our priest in service for His people.
This is a hero to be worshiped.
Serving Him with you Until He comes for us. Fred | 
