I think today it’s easier than ever with the Internet and now AI to isolate ourselves. It’s easy to end up in an echo chamber, even unintentionally, when our own opinions are constantly being echoed back to us, reaffirming a sense of moral superiority. The common good breaks this open. It leads us outside of ourselves. To consider those who are suffering and how we can create a more just, equal, and loving society and world.
In 1 Corinthians 12, 7 it reads, “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.” In other words, this Spirit we’ve each been given, this inerrant union we have with God, with Christ, leads us, if we let the Spirit do its work, into deeper unity with one another. Even those whom we are yet to become aware of, this spiritual connectedness. Now back to the conversation.”
—from Franciscan Media’s Franciscan Spirit Podcast
with host Stephen Copeland, featuring Suzanne Susany, OSF
