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Insertion
is the most efficient way to reach out with credibility
to the slum-dwellers, to get to know them, to share
their broken lives, to walk together in their process
of liberation. Insertion into the slums means entering
into their world and stand with them. Insertion brings
a deepening in the mystery of incarnation. It is difficult
to realize the full significance of the incarnation
unless we grasp it through the world of poverty and
oppression. From there we experience Jesus' historical
incarnation in the world of the poor.
In
words of John M. Waliggo (a Ugandan priest and theologian):
"The strategy that is demanded is for the Church
to be the first in the slums, so that whoever comes,
finds it there."
Jesus
became an outcast by choice, in the words of Jürgen
Moltmann, "He became the kind of man we do not
want to be: an outcast." He opted freely for a
marginal existence. With all his richness he understood
that the only way to carry his mission was by being
inserted in the "underground" of Palestinian
society.
To believe in Jesus is to live the way he lived. Therefore
we are called to insert ourselves in the margins of
today's society.
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