Is that I’m not strong enough for what solidarity really means for my life. It means sadness, bad smells, hunger, heat, nausea, blood, sores, frustration, fatigue, pain, suffering.
“[Solidarity] then is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say, to the good of all and of each individual because we are all really responsible for all.”
Pope John Paul II in his 1987 encyclical “Sollicitudo Rei Socialis”
When, and how, can I know?
You are afraid because you are already committed to solidarity, to the good of all, and that commitment is so binding on your soul that you know you will never be able to ignore it for long. Don't worry. The strength will come when you need it, because what you feel is not misplaced passion but the calling of God.
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