OK, the answer really is kinship. Everybody’s so exhausted by the tenor of the polarity right now in our country. And the division is the opposite of God, frankly. I always think of Dives with Lazarus — Dives is in here not because he’s rich, but because he kind of refused to be in relationship with Lazarus — that that parable is not about bank accounts and heaven, it’s really about us. And so what’s on Jesus’s mind? He says that all may be one. And that’s kind of where we need to inch our way closer — that we imagine a circle of compassion, then we imagine nobody standing outside that circle. God created, if you will, an otherness so that we would dedicate our lives to a union with each other.
--Fr. Greg Boyle SJ
Image source: Fedor Bronnikov, Lazarus at the Rich Man’s Gate (1886), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_man_and_Lazarus#/media/File:Fedor_Bronnikov_007.jpg
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