Voice of the Day: Monika K. Hellwig | Sojourners

Voice of the Day: Monika K. Hellwig

To be a follower of Jesus means in the first place to enter by compassion into his experience, with all that it expresses of the divine and of the human. And it means in the second place to enter with him into the suffering and the hope of all human persons, making common cause with them as he does, and seeking out as he does the places of his predilection among the poor and despised and oppressed.

- Monika K. Hellwig
from Jesus: The Compassion of God (The Liturgical Press, [...]

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