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 2007 NATIONAL CONVENTION
1 Cor. 12: Biblical Root
of Corporate Social Responsibility
Christ is like a single body (corpus, corporis)
which has many parts.
It is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.
The body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.
If the foot were to say, “Because I am not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,
that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
And if the ear were to say, “Because I am not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,
that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear?
And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?
As it is, however, God put every different part in the body
just as he wanted it to be.
There would not be a body if it were all only one part!
As it is, there are many parts but one body.
So then, the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!”
Nor can the head say to the feet, “Well, I don’t need you!”
On the contrary,
We cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker
ad these parts that we think aren’t worth very much
are the ones which we treat with greater care;
while the parts of the body which don’t look very nice
are treated with special modesty
which the more beautiful parts do not need.
God himself has put the body together in such a way
as to give greater honor to those parts that need it.
And so there is no division in the body
But all the different parts have the same concern for one another.
If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it.
If one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.
All of you are part of Christ’s body (corpus, corporis),
and each one is a part of it.
1 Cor. 12: 12, 14-27
Our proposed CEAP National Convention theme for 2007 wants to express that Corporate Social Responsibility is not something for “big corporations” alone. They have their version. We have ours. The smallest CEAP school in the remotest place must realize they are part of the whole. They have nothing to be ashamed of, if they are doing what they are supposed to do. In fact, they can do something in their own place that the largest corporation in the world cannot do. Corporate Social Responsibility is not about SIZE or MONEY. It is about what the term implies: being part of the whole, being responsible for the other, WE rather than ME.
We do our small schools a disservice if we think that they will not understand CSR or that they are not part of Corporate Social Responsibility. They may be small but their hearts and minds are and should be big. This is why our theme is Beyond Borders, Within Worlds.
While we stay within our worlds, we go beyond borders in our thinking, doing, loving.
Father Roderick C. Salazar Jr., SVD |
