I am saddened by all the violence that is happening in the U.S. and also around the world. My heart goes out to the Jewish Community in Pittsburgh on the losses they recently suffered.
It seems that in the U.S. and around the world,some people look at other people as "we" and as "them". There is a terrible division among the human race. In reality, we are truly all sisters and brothers in the one God.
Could it be that people who violate other people do not believe in God? And thus do not see other as sisters and brothers?
I think the world today is getting farther and farther away from God, who is the Source of all Good.
I am reminded of two great women in my lifetime. Dorothy Day and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. I was privileged to hear both women speak in 1978 at the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia, PA.
Dorothy Day was an advocate of social justice and she brought about social change for the good of all. Mother Teresa embraced the suffering people who had no one. Mother Teresa said that we too suffer in America when we fail to love others. That this failure to love was our "poverty" here. One of her favorite savings is: "Do small things with great love".
I feel that if we replace "hatred" with "love", it will be a big start to getting back on track again.
Sr. Barbara Woeste, OSB
Thank you, Sr. Barbara
ReplyDeleteThank you for your timely comment. I too hope and pray we as a nation can mature into a godly love.
ReplyDeleteDear Sister thank you for reminding me of two great saints Dorothy Day and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The saints inspire us and teach us and as Jesus said in the words of the Holy Eucharist, remember me, let us remember the saints of our lives and our faith, and learn from them, and about them, and even increase our repertory of saints, because the Lord has always worked in wonderful ways, and there are saints over there, in that age and time, long before we knew one another, but there was love and sacrifice, which God knows fully. Learning is a path towards loving, and ignorance is the opposite, let us learn good things and grow in love for one another, certainly and surely the immediate family, the children of Abraham. God bless OSB amen.
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