Thousands of men and women who have been educated and shaped in the classrooms of our congregation are doing good deeds today. Hundreds of women cared for by our Sisters have broken the chain of AIDS transmission or have been empowered for the sake of themselves and their families. Dying and sick have been comforted by their hands, while the children have discovered hope in their voice.
While Sr. Walter Maher CCVI is the newest member of the Congregation’s International JPIC Committee, she is certainly not new to the work for peace and justice.
We are living in difficult times which call us to reflect on current and emerging needs in our society.
There is no doubt about it! Immigration has been in the news regularly, especially since unaccompanied children started arriving in larger numbers over a year ago.
The beginning of a new year offers us the opportunity to reflect on the events of the past year and their impact on our lives. It is as if we can look into a rear-view mirror and recall the various happenings on our journey, what we learned, and how we can continue to grow and develop in the year ahead. This retrospection also leads us to remember people who are close to us and to appreciate their influence in our lives.
When we achieve a relationship of harmony between people, where coexistence is gratifying and the differences in criteria are resolved in a friendly way, without provoking confrontations or conflicts, we are at peace.
2017 is a blank canvas that we will fill with our actions. It is up to us that, at the end of the year, we will have created a beautiful work of art, meaningful, and worthy of being seen. It should be a work of art that motivates others to follow our example and inspires us to draw and achieve new purposes.
We are in the most beautiful season of the year and finally, Christmas Eve is here. This is the moment to celebrate the greatest gift we, as humanity, have received: Jesus Christ made man. We receive the Son of God with joy, and we are preparing our hearts for Him.
There are tribal rituals, such as the Yurupari tribal ritual in the Amazon Rainforest, in which men take the strength, the color, the skin and the capabilities of what is represented in the mask they wear. Previously, they prepare their hearts and themselves to try to understand this other being and transform themselves into this “other being”, which in this case, is their ancestor.
Throughout our life all of us face situations that produce sadness, uncertainty, or crisis; losing a loved person, a rupture in the family, an illness, scarcity of resources or feeling abandoned, for example.
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