Father Satish Joseph, pastor of Immaculate Conception and St. Helen churches, is proposing that the people of the Miami Valley respond by doing small works of love wherever they go.
“The best response to hate is to do the opposite,” he said. “The best response to hate is to love. When you love you are disempowering hate.”
You are to love wherever you find yourself. Love someone you’ve been having a hard time loving, he said.
Joseph also encouraged people to embrace others with different backgrounds and beliefs.
“Love someone of another religion, culture or ethnicity in a way that you have not done before,” he said. “Learn about another culture or group to shed prejudice.”
Joseph’s last recommendation was to forgive someone you need to forgive.
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