We must always challenge ourselves and our views of our world. Being Christian is difficult. There is a tension between what Christ taught and how our secular society encourages us to live. The greatest danger that a Christian can face is complacency, accepting everything, questioning nothing. This in essence can render your faith moot, meaningless. If we allow ourselves to love our neighbors, we must hope and pray for fairness in their lives; we must also act to achieve this fairness in their lives. It will not occur without our effort, our support, our patience. Prayer is essential. When we allow ourselves to love our neighbors, we become involved in their lives and struggles, we allow ourselves to suffer with them, we allow ourselves to share compassion with them. As Christians we can never accept the status quo. We must look at our society, at our world and see how the poor and marginalized are treated. We must work for true equality which will foster freedom, peace, human dignity for all mankind.
“The Church is obliged by its evangelical mission to demand structural changes that favor the reign of God and a more just and comradely way of life. Unjust social structures are the roots of all violence and disturbances.” Archbishop Oscar Romero
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