Her blood had been his first nourishment. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. It is not the denial of injustice, but rather, the correction of the objective disorders that brought on the harm. Faith without works is dead. This is not a comfortable process, and often it is easier to just shift the blame onto their victims.
People say that poverty is caused by laziness and bad choices.
Sometimes this is true, but it is only part of the explanation. The poor become a fearful Alien, the Other, to be mastered, confined, counted, regulated, and exploited for the good of the ruling political and economic elites. During this novena we honor the memory of St. Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer who was killed by the Nazis during World War II because of his refusal to bear arms and serve in the German military. Our prayer is that through true reconciliation, all people will learn how to be one in solidarity with each other, so that Serbian and Albanian, Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic, Hutu and Tutsi, Afrikaner and Zulu, White Americans and Native Americans, and all other persons and peoples will acknowledge the human personhood and dignity of each other, and live together in peace upon the earth. And as the song says, let this begin with me.