MUGAS, Audrey A.

2ChE-A

 How should we, the Church, dialogue with the poor?

Multiculturality is not only one of the effects of globalization, it also has affected people
to be poor in material and spiritual. As for the video, it emphasizes poor in the context of
materials, which deeply rooted due to capitalist system and injustices in our government. People
with no means of the basic needs are being more deprived of it, leading them to live their lives in
and to the extremes. As a church, we constantly ask ourselves ‘what would Jesus do?’. Jesus
Christ was rich, yet for our sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich
(2Cor 8:9). It tells us that everyone of us must do our share to help the poor, use what we have
not to help whose already rich but those who really need it. Following the example of Christ, we
are challenged to make a preferential option for the poor, be responsive to their voices, asses
their lifestyles and how institutions affect their lives. We must work not for the poor but with the
poor. We are called to be active participants and be mutually responsible as member of the
church and citizen in this society to strengthen this community. See in the perspective of the
marginalized and work in solidarity for justice and common good. As these wounds, the
powerlessness of our brothers and sisters, will be healed only by greater solidarity with the poor
and among the poor themselves (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Economic
Justice for All, no. 88).

Source:
http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/option-for-
the-poor-and-vulnerable.cfm