Everyone embraced by what we hold dear (Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

   As a church, giving witness to Christ today requires that we build communities that are wide enough to hold our differences. What we need is not a new technique, but a new sanctity. We don’t need some updating of the Gospel to make it more acceptable to the world, we need a more courageous radiating of its wide compassion. We also don’t need some new secret that catches people’s curiosity, but a way of following Christ that can hold more of the tensions of our world in proper balance, so that everyone, irrespective of temperament and ideology, will find themselves better understood and embraced by what we hold most dear. 

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI, Facebook 

Image source 1: Worship at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, https://www.facebook.com/mountcarmelmv/photos/a.5858947637499943/5858946197500087 

Image source 2: https://patrickwtjohnson.com/2017/08/14/jesus-racism-and-the-canaanite-woman/