“What the world needs now is love, sweet love…” and the sweetest Love is Solidarity
By: Nancy Schramm, osf
As we daily feel and also see the pain, agony, fear and despair of the anonymous people on the television screen, our own loved ones, and even as we search our own hearts and minds, the phrase from this 1965 song made famous by Dionne Warwick comes to my mind: “love, sweet love”. One of the sweetest forms of love is undoubtedly solidarity. When a person signs up for one of our diocesan mission trips, it is one of the four core values that we reflect on to prepare ourselves to acquire the right attitudes to guides us as we serve God’s people. It reads: “Solidarity: to learn from the poor and alienated in a way that reflects mutuality and solidarity.”
