Rise Up: A Weekly Call to Solidarity

God's revelations are stunning—be it the images from the Webb telescope, or that, in our deeply broken world, we keep persisting and rising up, and with God’s grace, manage to do something right. Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

Something is lost when the creation and enactment of programs, policies, initiatives, and laws are out of touch with the realities of those they are meant to serve. Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

Love is our commandment—through all the pain, the suffering, the tumultuous reality of our world. If we can start there, start simply—no complex answers needed—then certainly that first step toward loving God and others can inform the next step, and then the next. Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

As we in the U.S. celebrate the 4th of July, may we be reminded of and take action with the "tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free," prevented unjustly from ever entering our country. Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

Through good discernment, we can stay committed to our vocation, our path to proclaiming and building the kingdom of God.  Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

Reading by: Kelly Swan The miracle in today's Gospel was not only the multiplication of loaves and fishes, but the hearts broken open to share with one another. Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

When it is too murky to see, too clamorous to hear, too sad to be amazed… There, Sophia makes her presence known: hope does not disappoint.  Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

Pentecost is a time where God is breathing on us again, giving us a renewed life, reminding us all that we are good. Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

In the ongoing work of social justice, we get that we are to work together. Events like those of the past few weeks still (and rightly so) knock us to our knees. We must remember to lean on each other, to use our unique gifts collectively, and continue to hope and offer witness to Jesus’ loving message of justice.   Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

Human beings desire connection and relationship, so sometimes all we need to do to love others well is to be present. Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

It is not until we can learn to forgive others that we can truly love the world as God loves it, and as Jesus asks us to do in today’s gospel—unconditionally, and more importantly, undeserved.  Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

We as humans like to commodify and reduce each other to a certain value. We must move beyond that thinking for it limits our potential to find love and meaning in this life here on earth.   Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

We are called to do the hard work of nurturing relationships, of caring for people, of repairing broken and ruptured relationships. Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up

Thomas, who could not believe in the resurrection until he saw it with his own eyes, is a model of a faith that asks questions— a healthy part of cultivating a robust faith.  Sign up for the FREE accompanying weekly email here: igsol.net/rise-up