Love among the ruins

Last updated on: January 31, 2017 at 3:11 pm by Kate Cousino

Love among the ruins 2017-01-31T15:11:52-04:00 Kate Cousino

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A snippet from a piece I published last week:

…There are things broken that we cannot fix.
Am I advocating despair? No. But these broken places in people’s lives are where Francis’s call for compassion and pastoral care is most relevant. For while it is true that we cannot heal one another’s every wound, nothing is beyond God. And while we wait for his action, we can and should follow his command by loving one another, even in the broken places.
It isn’t comfortable…

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