Diversity. There is virtue in diversity when we recognize the dignity of every human person, and our unity as members of the one body of Christ. But diversity has increasingly been used to demonize and divide.
As Bishop Robert Baron said, “The demonic power is always one of scattering. It breaks up communion. But Jesus, as always, is the voice of communion, of one bringing things back together.”
Saint Paul addresses our diversity in both his letter to the Romans and his first letter to the Corinthians…
For as in one body we have many parts, and all the parts do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ and individually parts of one another. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body…and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
Today, let’s pray that our diversity leads us to unity, as members of the one body of Christ, using Saint Paul’s letter to the Ephesians….
I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. Amen.