No place for division (Pope Leo XIV / Servant of God Sr. Thea Bowman)

The love of God has no limits.
We are called to let ourselves
be embraced and shaped by that love,
and to realize that in God’s eyes
– and our own as well –
there is no place for
division and hatred of any kind.

--Pope Leo XIV 

    Today we’re called to walk together in a new way toward that Land of Promise and to celebrate who we are and whose we aren’t. If we, as a Church, walk together – don’t let nobody separate you – that’s one thing black folk can teach you – don’t let folks divide you up – you know, put the lay folk over here and the clergy over here – put the bishops in one room and the clergy in the other room – put the women over here and the men over here – The Church teaches us that the Church is a family of families and the family got to stay together and we know, that if we do stay together– we know that if we do stay together – if we walk and talk and work and play and stand together in Jesus’ name – we’ll be who we say we are – truly Catholic and we shall overcome – overcome the poverty – overcome the loneliness – overcome the alienation and build together a Holy city … where they’ll know that we are here because we love one another. 

--Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman 

Image source: Prayer for Wholeness Gathering, Mill Valley, CA, September 15, 2018, https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1992340400827372&type=3
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