Last weekend, Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl preached to a number of
disabled communities in attendance at the Archdiocese’s fourth annual White
Mass. In his homily, he said:
Just as all of us are created by God as we are,
and all of us have a place at the table of the Lord through baptism, so those
with special needs bring their own particular gifts to the Church and to our
celebration today…
Each of us is in need of the other, and each of
us is enriched by the others, and we depend upon and are complemented by
others.
As Blessed John Paul II often taught us, the human person is
a sacred and necessary part of God’s creation. Cardinal Wuerl echoed this
truth, saying that each one of us, with our abilities and disabilities, has a
place at the table of the Lord and a place in one another’s lives.
