Solidarity and Subsidiarity
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:04.5 | Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:10.0 | When my son Xavier was nine, he taught me a valuable lesson about two principles |
| 0:16.8 | central to the Catholic Church's teaching on justice, |
| 0:20.6 | Solidarity and subsidiarity. |
| 0:25.0 | Now how would a nine-year-old do that? |
| 0:27.0 | Well when Xavier was nine, he wanted to build a tree house. |
| 0:32.0 | I thought he wanted me to build a tree house for him. I can't build anything. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm pretty good at wrecking stuff, not good at building stuff. So I called a friend |
| 0:42.2 | who came and built the Taj Mahal of all treehouses. |
| 0:47.0 | Xavier hated it and refused to go up into it. |
| 0:52.0 | But the next day, Xavier got the remaining scraps of wood, a saw and hammer and nails, |
| 0:59.2 | and built a piece of junk on his own in the other tree and he was so happy. So what did I miss? Well, |
| 1:10.8 | Xavier wanted to build a tree house. He wanted to build a tree house. He wanted to use |
| 1:17.4 | his freedom, initiative, and creativity to build something and in the process, |
| 1:22.1 | even if he didn't realize it then, he knew it would help him grow and mature as an individual. |
| 1:28.0 | Now he knew he needed help, but he didn't want me to push him aside and do it for him. |
| 1:35.6 | I left both treehouses to remind me of two principles, of subsidiarity, that we need to let the individual do what they can so that they become |
| 1:47.8 | responsible and mature. That's subsidiarity. Respect the role of the individual, but also when individuals need |
| 1:58.0 | help from some higher authority or from the community, |
| 2:04.0 | give them the help they need, but don't do it for them. |
| 2:08.2 | That's solidarity. |
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