Weekly Pause & Ponder

Many persons of faith find themselves spiritually undernourished and weak as they struggle to live their lives with integrity....Today Christians are often confronted with the dichotomy between being a person of prayer and living a private type of Christian life and being committed to the struggle for justice and peace....But we cannot choose one and ignore the other... The call to contemporary Christians throughout the world is to learn how to do this: to grow simultaneously in the life of prayer and in commitment to social transformation, to walk on the two feet of love of God and the love of neighbor.

Great Mystics and Social Justice

by Susan Rakoczy, pp. 1-4.