Reading the Moment…

What was lacking was that “blessed awareness that we are part of one another, that we are brothers and sisters of one another,” as Francis explained in Fratelli Tutti (32). This could be understood only with a spiritual lens. For Francis, the key to our capacity to confront and grow through these crises is a threefold belonging: to God, to creation, and to one another. The loss of our sense of belonging to a single human family that is part of creation has its roots in closing ourselves off from our Creator. The result is that we are uniquely ill-prepared to manage the transition to a better future.

Excerpted from to First Belong to God : On Retreat with Pope Francis  by Austen Ivereigh  (p.14)