November 1, 2024: "Saints and Solidarity" with Christine Firer Hinze

Preaching for the Solemnity of All Saints, Christine Firer Hinze offers a reflection on the invitation to live in solidarity today's feast offers: "But let’s be real—the record shows that to live as a finite-sinner-saint -- beatitudinally, in spiritual and practical solidarity with our neighbors and against the powers of sin and death— is beautiful, but it’s a difficult, scary, and costly path. We cannot do it alone, and we need all the help we can get. Today’s great feast promises us exactly that." Christine Firer Hinze is Professor of Theological and Social Ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University. She holds a PhD in Christian social ethics from the University of Chicago. Her teaching and research focus on foundational and applied issues in Christian social ethics with special emphasis on the dynamics of social transformation, Catholic social thought, and economic and work justice for vulnerable women, families and groups. Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/11012024 to learn more about Christine, to read her preaching text, and for more preaching from Catholic women.