By: GARY DE LASALLE

GARY DE LASALLE — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 06:38:23 +0000

Raising voices is not enough “against the ‘wisdom’ that suggests that market forces can and should meet the need.”
I recognise the “welfare state” can engender an inflated sense of entitlement but property ownership/aspiration has never been a “Kiwi birthright.”
The concern and sentiments are genuine and valid. The figures are malleable in terms of interpretation and application depending on perspective and agenda. The need “at the coal face” is real.
Such need presents a grace and opportunity to ask ourselves as a Church: “How?”
In practicable terms, HOW can WE be part of a SOLUTION(s) within a truly Catholic and/or ecumenical architecture, and what do WE have to offer?
We CAN look to the early Christian communities and long history of corporate STEWARDSHIP;
We CAN explore how this may be finessed to utalise the various financial tools, structures, strategies, resources and intelligence readily at our disposal and within us – to serve such need;
We CAN take responsibility for mobilizing and implementimg creative Christian solutions – together with demonstrable leadership and community;
We CAN within this context manifest true expression – to borrow from Pope Francis – of “tenderness … and solidarity” in serving the interconnected and covenantal YOU within our ME.
Your Eminence, it CAN start with a humble, confident, and even venacular: “We got this!” because “with God all things are possible” – and indeed, it already is!
Finally, recall and animate John13:35.
Blessings & Carpe diem!

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By: GARY DE LASALLE