We believe that every human person was created by the same God. Ultimately we are all brothers and sisters, we are all connected. Solidarity reminds us of this connection that we have to our whole human family. This connection is greater than anything that divides us, including race, religion, and even geography.
We practice soildarity when it matters to us that people die of preventable diseases because they were born in Africa, not the United States. We practice solidarity when we drink coffee that is fair trade or buy clothing not made in a sweatshop and when we live a little more simply and waste less of our Earth's resources.
"Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity, based upon the principle that the goods of creation are means for all...Solidarity helps us to see the other ~ whether a person, people, or nation ~ not just as some kind of instrument, with a work capacity and physical strength to be exploited at low cost and then discarded when no longer useful, but as our 'neighbor' a 'helper' ~ to be made a sharer, on par with ourselves, in the banquet of life to which all are equally invited by God."
Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. Colossians 3:10-1.
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