In his homily this past Sunday, Pope Francis reminds us Jesus said, “Whoever wishes to be the first among you must be the last of all, and the servant of all”. The text can be found at Pope Francis Sept 20th Homily.
The vulnerable are who are called to care for – “Caring for the vulnerable of our families, our society, our people”. (10) Our service is never to be exclude others by being ” self-serving”. He states clearly the nature of our service – “Service is never ideological, for we do not serve ideas, we serve people”. (13)
Doesn’t this remind us of our own country currently? As John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University said, “The bad news is that we are more Democrats or more Republicans than we are Catholic (Christians)”. We are called to be followers of Christ bound together by our love for God and our neighbor.
Pope Francis concludes by saying, “Whoever does not live to serve, does not ‘serve’ to live”.
God Bless,
John