As Church, we must be a sacrament of Love itself, visible signs of the Trinity. We must act decisively with love in our world, in the particularities of our own contexts. In the face of systemic racism, virulent homophobia and transphobia, a deepening climate crisis, xenophobia, exploitative economic systems, white supremacy, and a devastating global pandemic that continues to weigh heavy upon the most marginalized in our world, we, the Body of Christ, must be agents of liberation, justice, restoration, dignity, hospitality, kindness, and peace. St. Paul reminds us that the measure of our kinship with Christ is our willingness to suffer with him. How often do we risk standing alongside the demonized, dehumanized, and discouraged? How might we, individually and as communities of faith, embody love and enflesh hope in our world today?
--Joann Melina Lopez
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I can’t express how hopeful and encouraging today’s blogpost of Joann Melina Lopez’s challenge to us, the Church, is for me. Thank you for its selection.
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