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The divine meaning of unity
What makes us one with our brothers and sisters of the faith, i.e., people who love and follow the same Lord, Jesus Christ?
We can have many differences and still have unity. We can have conflicts among the people who serve God in parish staffs and ministries, and still have unity. We can disagree with the non-Catholic beliefs of our Protestant kin and still have Christian unity.
Jesus prayed for this unity, as we see in the Sunday’s Gospel reading for the seventh Sunday of Easter. Are we the answer to his prayer? Or are we working against him?
Being one in the Lord does not require getting rid of everything that divides us from each other. Rather, it comes from recognizing that we stand on common ground as we worship Christ, no matter how differently we worship him.
The spirit of unity is the appreciation of what we have in common. It’s the recognition that we are individually members of the same body and that we need each other so that the Body of Christ on earth functions well.
Being one in the Lord Jesus means being different than the rest of the world. Our unity comes from belonging to the kingdom of God rather than to the kingdom of darkness and evil. And this unity is strengthened by purging ourselves of sin — individually and as a body.
Jesus said to the Father, “I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.”
All those who love, follow, and serve Jesus, regardless of their denominational affiliations, are all members of the same family, the Holy Family. We live together on the same side of the cross, which is resurrection and eternal life.
However, when we allow ourselves to sin, thinking as the world thinks, with prejudices and judgmentalism and condemnation toward other Christians, we divide ourselves not only from our brothers and sisters but also from God’s kingdom of love. We break the unity for which Jesus prayed.
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