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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 5 – Friday, March 20, 2020

“Solidarity”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Solidarity. A beautiful word. A great word. A word that we are particularly
called to live in this time of pandemic.

Solidarity, because we’re not all at the same level. There are some of us in
fragile health. There are others who have never been ill in their lives, who are
in great shape, full of reserves of energy. Yet every one of us is called to pull
together with one another.

This solidarity, this working together, makes us sensitive, makes us care for
people who are fragile. We put ourselves close to fragile people by adopting
the same preventive conditions as they are living under. We are united in
our physical distancing from each other. Therefore we show solidarity in the
physical distancing from one another.

But, maybe to encourage one another in the way we work together, let us view
this solidarity, not merely as a movement to isolate ourselves from each other,
but more as a unified effort to keep our distances for the sake of prevention.
We can show solidarity by slowing down our activities, by staying mainly at
home. Yet we also are living solidarity when we seek new ways to enter into
relationships, through the various means of communication, so that we may
be in physical distancing without being isolated. Physical distancing and
communication to show solidarity.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 15