Choosing Not Just to Feel Change, But to Embody It: A Response from Spoken Bride

It's hard to find the words this week as our country carries the heavy weight of reckoning and a desire for justice and mercy. What is it we can give in this ministry that reveres human dignity and the sacrament of marriage?

There is something so telling about the sacraments of the Church. These great gifts take what is invisible and create something we can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. Something tangible.

The righteous anger and pursuit of justice that so many of us are experiencing can, and should, have a sacramental dimension as well. These stirrings of the heart, these calls to pierce through comfort and privilege, are intangible, deep within. But they aren't meant to stay there. As Catholic Christians, we can draw from the reality of the sacraments in our response to racism and division.

How? By choosing not just to feel change, but to embody it. To take our aches, our anger, our burdens and channel them into action and productive change. To empathize first, discuss second. To unveil ourselves, striving to see every person as he or she is. To create a culture of encounter. 

And to start in our domestic churches. Living out marriage and family life with charity, self-awareness, generosity of spirit. Peace begins with mercy and love. And above all, the sacraments beget something greater: from division, communion.

We invite you to join us in praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet Novena on our Instagram Live, June 5-13 (9PM EST). We pray that mankind will be immersed in his abundant mercy and that his peace and healing will come upon the world.

We also continue to seek and encourage stories that reflect the universal church, ones of diversity in culture, ethnicity, and various Catholic rites. Stories of growing in holiness, in sanctification, and in one body. We desire to share your story as a beautiful and powerful witness of God’s love to the world!