We want to live and be offered a manifesto for love:
What do men and women want first of all? What do they need first of all? They need to be loved; to be recognized; to be treated like human beings; to feel respected in each and every value that they bear within themselves.
For that it does not suffice to tell them: “I love you.” Nor does it suffice (far from it!) to do some good towards them. It is demanded to exist with them, in the most profound sense of the word… to BE THERE.*
* Jacques Maritain writing on the vocation and charism of the Little Brothers of Jesus.
