Given the right kind of conditions, it is possible to enter Holy Week from the inside rather than the outside – not as a series of commemorative events surrounding the final days of Jesus’ earthly life, but as a way of actually accompanying Jesus on His timeless passage through death to the very source of life and back into this world, with the unshakable certainty that “nothing can separate us from the love of God.”
It is a passage, as Christian mystics from time immemorial have proclaimed, that changed the very foundations of this world. And it is a passage that we ourselves will personally make, carriedon the wings of this one Great Passage, when our own human lives have reached their fullness of time.
-Cynthia Bourgeault
Si se dan las condiciones adecuadas, es posible entrar en la Semana Santa desde dentro y no desde fuera: no como una serie de actos conmemorativos en torno a los últimos días de la vida terrena de Jesús, sino como una forma de acompañar realmente a Jesús en su paso intemporal a través de la muerte hasta la fuente misma de la vida y de vuelta a este mundo, con la certeza inquebrantable de que “nada puede separarnos del amor de Dios”.
Es un paso, como han proclamado los místicos cristianos desde tiempos inmemoriales, que cambió los cimientos mismos de este mundo. Y es un paso que nosotros mismos daremos personalmente, llevados por las alas de este Gran Paso, cuando nuestras propias vidas humanas hayan llegado a su plenitud.
-Cynthia Bourgeault
More than three billion people worldwide depend on water that crosses national boundaries, but only 24 countries have cooperation agreements for their shared water. With the critical impacts of climate change and the growth of populations, there is an urgent need, within and between countries, to unite around protecting and conserving this most precious resource. Public health and prosperity, food and energy systems, economic productivity and environmental integrity all depend on a well-functioning and equitably managed water cycle.
Más de tres mil millones de personas en todo el mundo dependen del agua que cruza las fronteras nacionales, pero sólo 24 países tienen acuerdos de cooperación para el agua que comparten. Con los impactos críticos del cambio climático y el crecimiento de la población, hay una necesidad urgente, dentro y entre los países, de unirse en torno a la protección y conservación de este recurso tan preciado. La salud pública y la prosperidad, los sistemas alimentarios y energéticos, la productividad económica y la integridad medioambiental dependen del buen funcionamiento y la gestión equitativa del ciclo del agua.
It is, in effect, our faith communities’ way of being in solidarity with those who are actively working for peace and justice around our world.
March 8, International Women’s Day, is a global day celebrating the social, cultural, economic and political achievements of women. It also issues a call to action for the acceleration of greater parity in our world.
The Pope reminds us that God’s message is always one of freedom. He also cautions that the journey from slavery to freedom is not an abstract one. It requires us to open our eyes to the reality of our world.
Bahkita, who is also the patron saint of Sudan, her homeland, was kidnapped and sold into slavery at a very young age – a victim of human trafficking. Eventuaslly freed, she became a Canossian nun and was declared a Saint in 2000.
Sister Mary Teresa was professed in May of 1884 and in August of that same year she became part of the founding community of St. Bride’s Convent, Littledale. Her keen interest in the schools and her remarkable business aptitude prepared her well for the ministry ahead.