People in the Diocese of Charlotte can be very divided – painfully so. Just as each of us Catholic Christians tries to talk to God in public and private prayer, could we not try to talk to each other and listen to each other in pairs and small groups?
"Where two or three are gathered in my name," says Jesus our Lord, "there I am in their midst."
Jesus will help us see the truth we have been missing and enable us to choose to serve the common good.
Let us invest in those we do not agree with. Let the world see how we Christians love one another!
I am hurting from seeing the divisions we create among ourselves, and I know many others are hurting as well.
Let us – together – build a unified Christian community, and may God bless us all.
— Father John Vianney Hoover lives at New Creation Monastery in Mount Holly.