Friday, February 4, 2022
“Thinking and engendering an open world” is the title of the third chapter of the encyclical Fratelli Tutti. One of the longest chapters and certainly a central chapter in the unfolding of the document. I have read and reread it several times and each time I have found food for thought. “No one can experience the true beauty of life without relating to others, without having real faces to love” (FT 87). I would like to pause and reflect on this sentence from the document.
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Father Alex Zanotelli: “Francesco’s Dream”
Friday, January 28, 2022
Pope Francis analyses in the first chapter “War, terrorist attacks, racial or religious persecution, and many other affronts to human dignity.” (FT 25) He does not talk so much about the ecological crisis, a theme addressed in Laudato Si’. Instead, he places great emphasis on this world of ours that clams up. “We are more alone than ever in an increasingly massified world that promotes individual interests and weakens the communitarian dimension of life.
Father Francesco Pierli: “Listening to the Cry of the Poor”
Friday, January 28, 2022
Jesus speaks of the one who fell into the hands of robbers, but this represents all the men and women, assaulted, outraged, abused, unemployed, exploited, who have fallen into the hands of robbers throughout the ages. That fellow also represents all the poverty of today. Just as the brigands represent the whole structure of personal and social sin in our time.
Fr. Giuseppe Caramazza: “Transforming the Patterns of Thought and Action”
Friday, January 28, 2022
Continuing his reflection on fraternity, Pope Francis draws on biblical sources and Jewish tradition. The parable of the Samaritan takes the lion’s share. But it is good to note how in this chapter we find quotes from all sections of the First Testament, as if to encompass all the biblical teaching that is never far from the idea of brotherhood.
Bro. Alberto Degan: “Bearers of Cultural and Spiritual Values”
Friday, January 28, 2022
In the second chapter of FT, the pope comments on the good Samaritan’s parable, which tells us about a wounded person and our attitudes toward the wounded. The central message of this parable is that wounded and discarded people are God’s priority. So the marginalized and the victims of violence are also the priority of our missionary action.
Fr. John Ikundu: “Reaffirming Human Dignity under Threat”
Friday, January 28, 2022
I feel that the interpretation of the parable of the good Samaritan by Pope Francis outlines that Fratelli Tutti is a mission proposal. The bandits along the road are not only those who physically attacked the wounded person lying at the road. Those who pass by leaving the person to go through life as an outcast (FT 68), those who are indifferent of the sufferings of the victim are also bandits along the road.