Review of Life 3
On the Coronavirus The Cost of Social Injustice!
SEE
- What sense of injustice do we feel by the way in which this global health crisis has been handled?
- Is everyone who is sick with this virus treated in the same? What difference have we seen?
- What signs of justice have we seen?
JUDGE
- In what way does this health crisis reflect the situation in our country and internationally?
- What have we discovered about injustice as a result of this crisis?
- What are the causes of these injustices?
- What are the conditions needed to prevent a rise of human injustice created by this crisis?
- Bring a short text, song or video etc, (choose something that reveals amongst the numerous messages circulating that speaks specifically of an UNJUST SYSTEM that we…and that we can share)!
Let’s read the passage taken from Luke’s Gospel
19 Once there was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and feasted every day. 20 At his gate lay Lazarus, a poor man covered with sores, 21 who longed to eat just the scraps falling from the rich man’s table. Even dogs used to come and lick his sores. 22 It happened that the poor man died and angels carried him to take his place with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 From hell where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham afar off, and with him Lazarus at rest.
24 He called out: ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus with the tip of his finger dipped in water to cool my tongue, for I suffer so much in this fire.’
25 Abraham replied: ‘My son, remember that in your lifetime you were well-off while the lot of Lazarus was misfortune. Now he is in comfort and you are in agony. 26 But that is not all. Between your place and ours a great chasm has been fixed, so that no one can cross over from here to you or from your side to us.’
27 The rich man implored once more: ‘Then I beg you, Father Abraham, to send Lazarus to my father’s house 28 where my five brothers live. Let him warn them so that they may not end up in this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham replied: ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ 30 But the rich man said: ‘No, Father Abraham. But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
31 Abraham said: ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the grave.’”
Also, a text from what Pope Francis has said to us:
“Everything that is shared will multiply itself! Take the multiplication of the loaves of bread. The growth of a society is measured by the way it treats those who are most in need, those who have nothing else but their poverty.
A Christian who closes in on himself, who hides all that the Lord has given him, well, he is not a Christian!
Whilst waiting for “the return of the Lord”, now it’s the time for action ….the time where it’s about profiting from the gifts God has given us.
Life has not been given to us so that we can jealously conserve it for
ourselves; it has been given to us so that we offer it to others.”
What is OUR WORD OF FAITH? OUR SIGHN OF HOPE? OUR ACT OF LOVE?
ACT
- What am I going to do PERSONALLY to reduce or eliminate the injustices that exist around me?
- What are we going to decide to do IN THE GROUP (MCW) (WMCW) to change opinions and to call out these injustices, “which appear to be normal”?
- What collective declaration (national or international) could the movement affirm about INJUSTICE.
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