Talking about Spirituality is not so popular in our times. However, its search is evident everywhere. It is one of the dimensions of the human being, inscribed in our own nature.
All Christian spirituality has the objective of realizing in one's own life the gift received through Baptism. This is giving us a progressive transformation in Christ through the sanctifying action of the Holy Spirit. There is only one definitive vocation: that of being saints. God's will is that we be holy. God called us to holiness. "Just as the One who called you is holy, you too be holy in all your conduct", Saint Peter reminds us in the First Letter (1 Pe 1:15).
Christian Spirituality begins at Baptism, supposes deepening the Grace of filial adoption each day, and leads to the perfect similarity with Christ in glory. But it is fundamentally the action of the Holy Spirit that is engraving in us the image of Christ "Firstborn among many brothers" (Rom 8:29).
To achieve holiness, to strive to perfection along the paths of the Spirituality of the Cross, is to live in the simplicity of everyday life, faith, hope, and charity. Here we find the core of everything. Ultimately, the saints are those who have manifested their "faith in their works, their Love with toil and work for the Kingdom, and their Hope in Our Lord Jesus Christ with firm constancy" (Cf. 1 Thess 1:3).
In Australia, Pope Benedict XVI told us, "In many of our societies, along with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading: an inner emptiness, an anonymous fear, a silent sense of disappointment. Many of our contemporaries have built cracked and empty cisterns in a desperate search for meaning that only love can give". That is why Spirituality is so important. It has not gone out of style.
"Solidarity is not a superficial and vague feeling due to the evils suffered by so many people near and far. On the contrary, it is the firm and persevering determination to work for the common good, that is, for the good of each and everyone, because we are all truly responsible for all". (St. John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis).
For those who follow Christ the Priest, Solidarity is the updated name of love when it is socially projected and of authentic charity. It is preferred to the word "love", which lends itself to so much ambiguity, and the word "charity", which although very deep, is associated in use with "beneficence", which sometimes arouses rejection.
It was God who invented Solidarity, "God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And God created man in his image; he created him in the image of God, he created them male and female" (Gn 1:26-27). God brought humanity to their peak by becoming one with us in Jesus Christ so that we, standing, could exercise the fullness of our dignity.
In practice, Solidarity is experienced for different reasons. For us they are reasons of faith: those who feel associated with the "dream" of God, which is to live the Kingdom and the brotherhood of the human race on earth that the Father gave for the happiness of all. This is the case for us in the spiritual family of Blessed Concepcion Cabrera. Holiness calls for Solidarity and a serious commitment to actively protecting the lives of the poor, the marginalized, and the most vulnerable.