{"id":18907,"date":"2020-05-28T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18907"},"modified":"2020-05-28T09:41:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:41:44","slug":"solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18907","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.07.41-AM-500x255.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.07.41-AM-500x255.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.07.41-AM-300x153.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.07.41-AM-768x392.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.07.41-AM.png 1204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJeW3HlDqPA\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Fifth Conversion<\/strong><br>Thursday, \u202fMay 28, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Fifth&nbsp;Conversion<\/strong>&nbsp;to solidarity&nbsp;is&nbsp;a choice to walk with&nbsp;the poor and oppressed,\u202fto&nbsp;be taught by them,&nbsp;and to love them&nbsp;as equals, each of us bearing the Divine Indwelling Spirit within.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although he was raised Roman Catholic and worked with many religious organizations, Paulo Freire rarely used religious language or metaphors&nbsp;to make his point.&nbsp;Yet&nbsp;his teaching&nbsp;on solidarity&nbsp;is&nbsp;fully aligned with the ministry of Jesus: \u201cConversion to&nbsp;[solidarity with] the people&nbsp;requires&nbsp;a profound rebirth. Those who undergo it&nbsp;<strong>must take on a new form of existence; they can no longer remain as they were.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;[1]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his work teaching literacy skills in Brazil and Chile, Freire employed a method of dialogue that created solidarity and transformed systems of injustice. The dialogue enables&nbsp;the \u201chelper\u201d to <strong>let go any personal agenda<\/strong> and allows&nbsp;the needs of the \u201chelped\u201d to be fully told. Eventually a movement towards liberation is born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Dialogue further requires an intense faith in humankind . . . faith in their vocation to be more fully human. . . . Founding itself upon love, humility, and faith, dialogue becomes a horizontal relationship of which mutual trust between the dialoguers is the logical consequence. [2]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope&nbsp;you can&nbsp;see how living out the Gospel is always a process of&nbsp;what Freire calls<em>&nbsp;humanization<\/em>, [3] a movement toward&nbsp;greater\u202ffreedom, dignity, inclusivity,\u202fand possibility.&nbsp;We&nbsp;<em>are&nbsp;<\/em>one, and through solidarity we more clearly identify and name the systems that separate us. We find in ourselves and in the other the true \u201cimage of God\u201d in which we are created and connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dialogue that leads to solidarity is a way that oppressors and oppressed begin to recognize each other as&nbsp;<em>subjects<\/em>&nbsp;in their full humanity, as both learn and teach in this active encounter of faith and love. Here is Freire, in his own words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Dialogue cannot exist without humility.<br>How can I dialogue if I regard myself as a case apart from others\u2014mere \u201cits\u201d in whom I cannot recognize other \u201cI\u201ds?<br>How can I dialogue if I consider myself . . . the owner of truth and knowledge . . .?<br>How can I dialogue if I am closed to\u2014and even offended by\u2014the contributions of others?<br><strong>Self-sufficiency is incompatible with dialogue.<br><\/strong>At the point of encounter [in dialogue] there are neither utter ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know. [4]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We are all on this journey together and we are all in need of liberation (which might be a better word than salvation). God\u2019s intention is solidarity with, and universal responsibility for, the whole. As Paul taught, \u201cIf one part is hurt, all parts share in the pain. If one part is honored, all the parts share in the joy\u201d (1 Corinthians 12:26).<strong> Think of Christianity as a giant act of solidarity with the marginalized, and all of creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.40.39-AM-500x355.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18910\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.40.39-AM-500x355.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.40.39-AM-300x213.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.40.39-AM-768x546.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-9.40.39-AM.png 1858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fifth ConversionThursday, \u202fMay 28, 2020 The&nbsp;Fifth&nbsp;Conversion&nbsp;to solidarity&nbsp;is&nbsp;a choice to walk with&nbsp;the poor and oppressed,\u202fto&nbsp;be taught by them,&nbsp;and to love them&nbsp;as equals, each of us bearing the Divine Indwelling Spirit within.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although he was raised Roman Catholic and worked with many religious organizations, Paulo Freire rarely used religious language or metaphors&nbsp;to make his point.&nbsp;Yet&nbsp;his teaching&nbsp;on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18911,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907\/revisions\/18911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}