We are each called by God to construct the Beloved Community to look like the shape of God’s heart. Every other false authority that doesn’t prioritize how we treat the least, the most vulnerable, and the stranger will fall apart and crumble by the weight of its own untruth.
Jesuit Fr. Greg Boyle says, Kinship is God’s dream come true. It’s about imagining a circle of compassion and then imagining no one standing outside that circle.
I believe children are born knowing the shape of God’s heart. A sense of justice is innate in young ones.
As Catholics, what we believe to be the shape of the heart of Christ determines how we respond and the kinds of communities we construct. And if in our communities we have laws that treat the lives of the hungry, the poor, the sick, the stranger, and the imprisoned unjustly, then it is up to us to take courageous stands and change those laws. The kinship community is constructed when we allow ourselves to be guided by the eyes and the heart of the Good Shepherd who sees each one of us and loves each one of us.
God has no hands or feet but ours, so when we work together with people different from us, to make good laws and good policies happen, we are helping to build a reino de Dios, that place where we all belong to one another, no one left outside our circle of concern. We put our faith into action – because that’s where the joy is.
--Ellie Hidalgo
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