We Are the World ~ Msgr. Daniel Hoye

It was on Good Friday 1985 that 8000 radio stations around the world played 'We Are the World' at the same time.  If you can get that tune into your head, it will be with you all day.  It was an effort to be in solidarity with the victims of the big famine in Ethiopia, but also to highlight the fact that we are all connected - we are the world.

Maybe if St. Paul had that tune he would have incorporated it into Corinthians today.  He says we are the Body.  We are the Body of Christ; we may have different functions, but we are connected. The Jesuit, Walter Burghardt, used to talk about, and he was quoting somebody else who I can't remember, the world as a spider web.  If you hit one section the whole thing is set a twitter.

You and I are reminded today that while we could be political isolationists, we can't be theological isolationists.  We are all in this together.  We need to support ourselves in prayer, sometimes in actions because we are the world.