....For Justice...take a minute to meditate today! THURSDAY Behold, how good it is, and how pleasant, where brethren dwell at one! It is as when the precious ointment upon the head runs down over the beard, the beard of Aaron, till it runs down upon the collar of his robe. It is a dew like that of Hermon which comes down upon the mountain of Zion; for there the Lord has pronounced his blessing life forever. - Psalms 133:1-3 Fraternity needs to be discovered, loved, experienced, proclaimed and witnessed to. But only love, bestowed as a gift from God, enables us to accept and fully experience fraternity. The necessary realism proper to politics and economy cannot be reduced to mere technical know-how bereft of ideals and unconcerned with the transcendent dimension of man. When this openness to God is lacking, every human activity is impoverished and persons are reduced to objects that can be exploited. Only when politics and the economy are open to moving within the wide space ensured by the One who loves each man and each woman; will they achieve an ordering based on a genuine spirit of fraternal charity and become effective instruments of integral human development and peace. We Christians believe that in the Church we are all members of a single body, all mutually necessary, because each has been given a grace to the measure of the gift of Christ, for the common good. Christ has come to the world so as to bring us divine grace, that is, the possibility and the depth of the love of God offered to humanity in the One who, crucified and risen, draws all to himself. This is the good news that demands from each one step forward, a perennial exercise of empathy, of listening to the suffering and the hopes of others, even those furthest away from me, and walking the demanding path of that love which knows how to give and spend freely the good of all out brothers and sisters. Christ embraces all of humanity and wishes no one to be lost. He does it without oppressing or constraining anyone to open to him the doors of heart and mind. Every activity must be distinguished by an attitude of service to persons, especially those furthest away and less known. Service is the soul of that fraternity that builds up peace… May Mary, the mother of Jesus, help us to understand and live every day the fraternity that springs up from the heart of her Son, so as to bring peace to each person on this our beloved earth. - Pope Francis
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:53:24 +0000
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