By:
Sr. Marie Flowers, SCN
I
can’t seem to shake the tragedy of the Charlie Hebdo killings in France. The actions leading up to and following the massacre
have me questioning my values, our values and wondering how it all got so
ugly. I’m sensing a societal push toward
the individual – (what I want, need, think or have to say) as more important
than the good of the whole. The message
seems to be that individualism supersedes respect, tolerance and ultimately
undermines the human dignity of all.
As
I reflect on God’s invitation for these 40 days of Lent, I keep coming back to
the idea of looking out for the good of the whole – not just my needs, the
needs of my local community and my family, but the needs of the whole church,
the whole world the whole earth. Our world is crying out from every continent
for peace and reconciliation, for compassion and justice, for Hope.
Sunday’s
readings were filled with wisdom for building up and protecting the whole. “If you
bear the sore of leprosy, shout unclean, unclean so as not to infect the whole
of the community” “Do everything for the
glory of God…avoid giving offense whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of
God”
My prayer this Lent is for a deeper awareness of The Good of the Whole and how God’s love desires to permeate every part of the whole.
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