Do not create parallel worlds

You can share a city, a classroom, a parish, or a workplace with very different people and still never truly meet them. Each group lives right alongside the other, without touching. Real integration needs more than tolerating each other from afar. It calls for conversation, shared projects, patience with differences, and a desire to learn from the other. The Gospel pushes us to build a larger family. Not to erase differences, but to keep them from becoming walls.