The weekly reflection for the congregation of St. Benedict Catholic Church in Fontana, Wisconsin, reminds parishioners to look for Christ’s divinity in the souls of others. 

“We wrongly believe that God divides himself, placing himself in one place in preference to another. It doesn’t work that way,” the reflection states. “Love of God and love of neighbor are intimately and inseparably connected because the essence and spark of God’s very presence is in all creation.”

While the human mind prefers to separate and divide the world and even God in order to manage the unmanageable and assume comprehension of the incomprehensible, these boxes and divisions that humans place and attempt to place God into are always artificial constructs.

“But, with God there are no distinctions such as this,” the reflection states. “Our human classifications, subdivisions and definitions hold no power or have any weight in God’s eyes. Sadly, we relate to God and to each other as if they do.”