Where I Am, You May Not Harm

A few weeks I mentioned that Jana and I got to spend some time at the monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, the home of author Joan Chittister.

Many of you know Chittister's work, but if you don't here's a great quote from a recent interview she gave to the Jackson Free Press. The interviewer's question: "So, as a woman of faith, as a monastic, how do you see your role and the role of other people of faith in the world?"

 Sister Joan's answer:
It's a simple one: To see injustice and say so, to find the truth and proclaim it, to allow no stone to be unturned when it is a stone that will be cast at anyone else. It's just that simple. There is nothing institutional, organizational, political about it. It says: "Where I am, you may not harm these people. You may not deride them; you may not reject them; you may not sneer at them, and you certainly cannot blame them for their own existence."

This entry was posted by Richard Beck. Bookmark the permalink.