Our country is currently going through a very difficult, complex and problematic situation; we live in a hybrid society with drops of democracy and torrents of dictatorship, which generate various types of violence such as political, social, economic, criminal and even family violence, the increase of unemployment and poverty, the permanent loss of values and the growth of corruption at all levels, phenomena that have been affecting the physical and
Chapter nº2 Do I remain silent in the face of what is unjust? What steps can I take to break the silence? “Now interrupting the narrative of the powerful, fighting for justice can be lonely, exhausting work, but nothing compared to what the Palestinian people are going through. Telling uncomfortable truths may cause them to lose their livelihood, lose friends, you may lose your family.… Jesus interrupted the narrative of
Actress Susan Sarandon at a recent demonstration against the genocide suffered by the Palestinian people, expressed a beautiful and challenging message for all of us who believe in life, in the right of all peoples to live in peace, in self-determination. “Our enemy is hatred, our enemy is racism, our enemy is colonization and greed…. Jesus had experience of living under the domination of the Roman Empire, of suffering oppression
Our life are instantsStarry in the seaAt times intense, at others peaceful,when we feel our hearts burningand other times, darkness embraces us.Encounters and goodbyes.We weave the daily lifewith the threads of our fragile and sacred humanity.We walk with our own and others’ wounds,we mend, we begin again.Again and again you resurrect our hope.Like you, Lord, we want toto pass with meaning, doing goodLeaving the trace of your tenderness,your gaze, your
It seems like yesterday when the Provincial Team in 2012 asked me to come to Ecuador and work in the Social Project “Dreaming for Change”. I accepted with joy this new experience: although I did not know exactly what it consisted of. I arrived in Quito on December 31 of the same year accompanied by Sister Maria del Carmen Sagardoy, and already at the airport Fr. Sereno Cozza was waiting
One February afternoon fire engulfed the poor of my village.The infernal dance of the flamestook away their lives, their stories, their memories.The hills of Viña del Mar were stained with horror,time stood still and there was no time to escape,no water, no road.Burnt bodies, aborted dreams.For them there are no safe territories to inhabit,behind the shell dwells dignity.Behind the Garden City, there dwells the real Chilethe one that hurts the
As I began to clean, to throw away, to do inventory of the things in the house, since we decided to leave this mission, I was sad, nostalgic, and dragging my feet with the heaviness of discouragement…. And that’s what I was going through, when I found “Everything has its time” by Joan Chittister, which of course I began to read with interest and in these pages I found a
I would like to share some of my missionary experiences in Taiwan. I have been in Taiwan for seven months now. The community where I live collaborates in some pastoral works such as visiting the sick, giving communion to the elderly and teaching catechism. I am helping the sister in her works together with some lay faithful at the same time I am learning Chinese. Apart from this, once a
The commitment to serve takes a long way and even to unknown destinations. If we could ever read the social teachings of the church, it sends us, impels us to preach and be both a herald and a witness to unknown paths, to be strong, trusting in the Lord, courageous and never faint along the way. St. Paul even asserts that our goal in life is to bring everything in
One of the beautiful wishes and a solemn one to do of a believer, is to consecrate one’s life before the One who is sacred and is all for the one vowing to it. Like many others, I cherish the experience of those years and my own way of dedicating my life. I often ask: What shall I offer in return? Formation years were filled with questions and acts of