Solidarity

The prinicple of Solidarity, held by the Church to be a virtue, doesn't just call us to walk with someone in their troubles. Rather, it calls us to become one of them, taking on their troubles as our own. We must make the poverty of Nicaragua our own. We must make the sorrows of a widow our own.

This coming weekend we will celebrate the day that God made our limitations and sufferings his own by taking on flesh. At the birth of our Lord, we celebrate God becoming one of us, in every way. He emptied himself taking even the form of a slave (Phil 2:6-11).

How can we take after Christ? How can we make the troubles, pains, and joys of our neighbor become our own?