{"id":93921,"date":"2023-02-13T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/?p=93921"},"modified":"2023-02-12T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:57:11","slug":"the-greatest-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/13\/the-greatest-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BY <a href=\"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/blog\/author\/nmckee\/\">NORA MCKEE<\/a><\/strong> | <em>February 13, 2023<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/021223.cfm\"><em>Sunday&#8217;s Readings<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/b7211388-b45b-4855-9cd3-8b4f161c24ac\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our readings this week, we hear of the importance in upholding the laws of our God. At first glance, this seems an easy task.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thou shall not kill, thou shall not commit adultery\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These rules and laws are not only that of the Lord, but that of the society that we have so graciously been creating for thousands of years. I believe there is an inherent goodness in humanity that naturally calls us to not commit heinous acts like these.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However; God\u2019s law goes deeper than this, and we know this because he said so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-93922 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/activist.jpg\" alt=\"The Greatest Activist\" width=\"845\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/activist.jpg 845w, https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/activist-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/activist-80x43.jpg 80w, https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/activist-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/activist-705x375.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love your neighbor as yourself<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve heard it since vacation bible school. This is where God\u2019s law and society\u2019s law cease to overlap. We are a generation on earth that has been conditioned to hate \u2018the other.\u2019 While the readings this week call us to follow God\u2019s law, I challenge you to go further than that: Live it in the 21st century. Live it when you hear a microaggression while in the workplace. Live it by seeking voices that are unlike your own. Live it by actively unlearning the hate embedded into all of our hearts, by unearthing the societal systems and structures that perpetuate it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The greatest way to live God\u2019s law is to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and love is the greatest activist of all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest way to live God\u2019s law is to love, and love is the greatest activist of all.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":93922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[17433],"tags":[17489],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v22.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Greatest Activist - Ignatian Solidarity Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Love your neighbor as yourself.\u00a0The greatest way to live God\u2019s law is to love, and love is the greatest activist of all.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ignatiansolidarity.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/13\/the-greatest-activist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Greatest Activist - 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