tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90403062024-03-17T23:03:37.421-04:00A Jesuit's JottingsRick Malloy, S.J., is a Jesuit priest and cultural anthropologist. He is the author of _A Faith That Frees: Catholic Matters for the 21st Century (2007) and _Being on Fire: The Top Ten Essentials of Catholicism_ (2014), both published by ORBIS Books A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.comBlogger440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-21769691546244940042023-12-18T09:28:00.010-05:002023-12-18T09:33:47.646-05:00Mary Did You Know (Lyrics bt Jennifer Hardy)<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJHHWSIuj3nHmIEaio2olQo93khoqSchjkTmDR8a1QZkkctJEv5x2-u87lnmYs48rUZkahpQCRvuRPHcn10uUE7CcldRuMrTlCAjPYUM4A3B1v9MZbYXqmVwp4X-R9kSXrboUprb16lqhaD3_JlyoA09H3u48Jk7RbRQyVs631zJhj1KoqHd0xgA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJHHWSIuj3nHmIEaio2olQo93khoqSchjkTmDR8a1QZkkctJEv5x2-u87lnmYs48rUZkahpQCRvuRPHcn10uUE7CcldRuMrTlCAjPYUM4A3B1v9MZbYXqmVwp4X-R9kSXrboUprb16lqhaD3_JlyoA09H3u48Jk7RbRQyVs631zJhj1KoqHd0xgA=w188-h188" width="188" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfQhEkHBlz1Nesq-C3nUp1-wjIr8nte2Ik3k1MIyQmnreUYA8wRJuU2NmRuZWfRJVZ_vqU9P9BPMNVweAxocky_0ElAM0fPuMl4t3FqR8W0noVuTb7NK-79GlFt0ufCXzYotC54regSqZk6uMXdCV-wgIw4EzJdKujtm6IemHZtb3h9N5xNmmNXg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="399" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfQhEkHBlz1Nesq-C3nUp1-wjIr8nte2Ik3k1MIyQmnreUYA8wRJuU2NmRuZWfRJVZ_vqU9P9BPMNVweAxocky_0ElAM0fPuMl4t3FqR8W0noVuTb7NK-79GlFt0ufCXzYotC54regSqZk6uMXdCV-wgIw4EzJdKujtm6IemHZtb3h9N5xNmmNXg=w226-h184" width="226" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Fr. Malloy’s Midweek Message. December 20, 2023</span><o:p style="font-size: 22pt;"></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: white;">Read Mary’s
Magnificat, Luke 1:46-55</span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is prayed every
evening in the Church’s Liturgy of the Hours.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary’s song
sung at the beginning of Luke’s Gospel is a powerful prayer that proclaims the
“Greatness of the Lord.” Mary rejoices
in all the God is doing for the salvation of the world and all the peoples of
this planet. God has mercy. He cares for the poor and sends “the rich
away empty.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jennifer
Hardy has rewritten the words to the popular Christmas Song, “Mary Did You
Know.” (</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_pae1ZfxWw"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_pae1ZfxWw</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> ). Hardy’s lyrics
poetically parallel Mary’s Magnificat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary Did you Know?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary did you know, that your ancient words would still leap
off our pages? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary did you know, that your spirit song would echo through
the ages? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Did you know that your holy cry would be subversive word, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that the tyrants would be trembling when they know your truth
is heard? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary did you know, that your lullaby would stir your own
Child’s passion? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary did you know, that your song inspires the work of
liberation? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Did you know that your Jubilee is hope within the heart <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of all who dream of justice, who yearn for it to start? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The truth will teach, the drum will sound, healing for the
pain <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The poor will rise, the rich will fall. Hope will live again <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary did you know, that we hear your voice for the healing of
the nations? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary did you know, your unsettling cry can help renew
creation? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you know, that we need your faith, the confidence of you, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">May the God that you believe in, be so true. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lyrics by Jennifer Henry (inspired by the popular song of the
same name) </span><a href="https://scmcanada.org/2017/12/mary-did-you-know-rewrite/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary did you know? – Rewrite! – SCM Canada</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On behalf of
Cristo Rey Jesuit, I wish you all a Wonderful (full of wonder), peaceful, Merry
Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep
Safe. Keep Sane. Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="ES" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">El Miercoles Mensaje del
Padre Malloy, S.J. 20 de Diciembre,
2023 <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="ES" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lee el Magnificat de María,
Lucas 1, 46-55. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="ES" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Se
reza todas las tardes en la Liturgia de las Horas de la Iglesia.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El canto de María al
comienzo del Evangelio de Lucas es una poderosa oración que proclama la
"Grandeza del Señor". María se
alegra de todo lo que Dios está haciendo por la salvación del mundo y de todos
los pueblos de este planeta. Dios tiene
misericordia. Cuida de los pobres y
despide "a los ricos con las manos vacías".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jennifer Hardy ha
reescrito la letra de la popular canción navideña "Mary Did You Know"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_pae1ZfxWw).
La letra de Jennifer Hardy hace un paralelo poético con el Magnificat de
María.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Sabías,
María?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Sabías, María, que tus antiguas palabras
aún saltarían de nuestras páginas? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Sabías, María, que tu canto espiritual
resonaría a través de los siglos? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Sabías que tu grito santo sería palabra
subversiva <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">que los tiranos temblarían al saber que tu
verdad es escuchada? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Sabías, María, que tu canción de cuna
despertaría la pasión de tu propio Hijo? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Sabías, María, que tu canto inspira la
obra de la liberación? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Sabías que tu Jubileo es esperanza en el
corazón <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">de todos los que sueñan con la justicia,
que anhelan que comience? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La verdad enseñará, el tambor sonará,
curación para el dolor <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Los pobres se levantarán, los ricos caerán.
La esperanza volverá a vivir <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">María ¿sabías, que oímos tu voz para la
curación de las naciones? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">María ¿sabías, que tu grito inquietante
puede ayudar a renovar la creación? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Sabes que necesitamos tu fe, tu confianza?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Que el Dios en el que crees, sea tan
verdadero.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Letra de Jennifer Henry (inspirada en la
popular canción del mismo nombre) Mary did you know? - </span><a href="https://scmcanada.org/2017/12/mary-did-you-know-rewrite/"><span lang="ES" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary did you know? –
Rewrite! – SCM Canada</span></a><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En nombre de Cristo Rey Jesuita, les deseo
a todos una Maravillosa (llena de asombro), pacífica, Feliz Navidad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span lang="ES" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="ES" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos Seguro. Sigamos Sano. Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></p></div></div>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-47533995768334375932023-12-04T09:13:00.000-05:002023-12-04T09:13:05.691-05:00ADVENT: Prayer is the answer<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpozQDnWXVe0vadT3vXZG4NccgCMPv-nzjdOfzFrWrmJ-sS0Iiy9L5YF8zlLDPDUsxbXEgWlx_w3cPQYFrUyenxuXXmHaTaAgWep9Qag6p2VR3oALj9TcgA6E0fhodZijYnO8-CovezIUeDKoHw5XdYFVwbg3YEGF0SO42vGNAuNauUl-LMtgxQ/s880/what-is-advent-season.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="880" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpozQDnWXVe0vadT3vXZG4NccgCMPv-nzjdOfzFrWrmJ-sS0Iiy9L5YF8zlLDPDUsxbXEgWlx_w3cPQYFrUyenxuXXmHaTaAgWep9Qag6p2VR3oALj9TcgA6E0fhodZijYnO8-CovezIUeDKoHw5XdYFVwbg3YEGF0SO42vGNAuNauUl-LMtgxQ/s320/what-is-advent-season.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: xx-large;">ADVENT PRAYER</b></p><p></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> Richard G. Malloy, S.J., Ph.D.</o:p></span></p>
<p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><i>“Spiritually we seem to be in an
enormous vacuum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanly speaking there
is the same burning question - what is the point of it all?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in the end, even that question sticks in
one’s throat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scarcely anyone can see or
even guess at, the connection between the corpse-strewn battlefields, the heaps
of rubble we live in and the collapse of the spiritual cosmos of our views and
principles, the tattered residue of our moral and religious convictions as
revealed by our behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even if
the connection were fully understood it would be only a matter for academic
interest, data to be noted and listed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No one would be shocked or deduce from the facts a need for reformation</i>.”
- from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Prison Meditations of Alfred
Delp, S.J.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fr. Delp was executed by
the Nazis Feb. 2, 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Some think our
world has become insane and inhumane: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, an evermore unjust distribution of the world’s goods, systemic racism and sexism, global warming, on
and on.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We feel the tug of the abyss in
our hearts, much like Fr. Alfred Delp, S.J., who was executed by the Nazis in
the Spring of 1945, and who describes well both his and our times.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Advent is a time to slow down and quiet down
and listen for the small whisperings of God’s love and presence amidst the
pains and confusions of life.</span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sometime during
Advent, see if you can find </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Paradise Road</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This movie about a group of women held in
concentration camps by the Japanese during WWII is an extraordinary story of
human courage, care and compassion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It
shows how even the simplest practices of beauty and art (in </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Paradise Road</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
the formation of a human voice orchestra) can counter and transform even the
most horrific situations, and counter the most bestial acts humans can
perpetrate against one another.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Like
those abused and mistreated women, we also are called to be human and loving in
a too often brutalizing and bruised world.</span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If I told you
that doing “X,” one simple practice, will guarantee that you do better in
confronting the insanities of ours and every age, will help you feel less
stressed out throughout December, and actually appreciate, even enjoy, life in
our days, despite all the problems and pain, would you want to know what “X”
is?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">You already do.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It is prayer.</span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The answer is
prayer, that simple yet difficult practice of paying attention to God.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Prayer is a way of allowing God to grace us
with inner harmony and outer peace.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Prayer is a practice that helps us reach our heart’s deepest and truest
desires: our heartfelt search for meaning, and our ultimate origin and destiny,
i.e., God.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Prayer is that discipline of
slowing down, breathing, getting quiet, feeling the rhythms of life, and
touching (and being touched back by) our infinite source of joy and jubilation,
respect and renewal, hope and healing: the Lord of love and life.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Prayer is looking at Jesus, contemplating
what the Gospels tell us of him, and paying attention to what the Risen Christ
present and active in our lives is doing here, now, today!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Prayer is sacraments and singing, loving and
listening, inspiring and imagining.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Prayer is an evermore fascinating adventure, the most challenging task
in life, and the most incredible experience available to us.</span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">So why don’t we
pray?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We live in a time that finds
belief in God difficult.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We have seen the
past century knee deep in blood and know the violence of our times.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Murder rates are down in Baltimore and other places, but still way too high.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We have felt, deep down in our dark, quiet
nights, the fear and fragility of being a mere human being.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We don’t pray because slowing down and
listening brings us face to face with the difficulties and dangers of our human
experience.</span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Advent is for
people who have felt the need of a God who cares, a God who will come to us in
our weakness and save us.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Advent is a
time of waiting, a time to wait anxiously and see if the dark days stop getting
shorter and once again increase in light.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Fr. Alfred Delp and The women in </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Paradise Road</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> knew this
waiting.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Advent is a time to know that
God comes to us as we are, in all our confusion and chaos, tragedy and
tension.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Truth be told, God comes to us
in our stale, stinking, sinful condition.</span></p>
<p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><i>“Unless a man has been shocked to
his depths at himself and the things he is capable of, as well as the failings
of humanity as a whole, he cannot understand the full import of Advent.”</i> -
Alfred Delp, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Once we reach
out in prayer for a way through the morass of the human condition, we meet a
God who is here with us, Emmanuel.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This
God comes to us.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This God saves us.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This God promises peace.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Can we believe it?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Will we believe it?</span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Thomas Merton,
writing in an introduction to Fr. Delp's prison meditations, notes, <i>"In
effect, the temptation to negativism and irrationality, the urge to succumb to
pure pragmatism and the massive use of power, is almost overwhelming in our
day."</i></span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Our times can
tempt us to prostitute ourselves to pure pragmatism and block out the deep and
haunting questions of human existence.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">But such blocking out also will dampen and extinguish the ability to
feel exhilaration and joy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Then we can sink
into negativity and irrationality.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Still,
the practice of prayer will keep us from being overwhelmed and open us to the
grace of sanity.</span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Advent Prayer
is waiting prayer.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If we wait
attentively, we will feel less stress, less pain, less lack of purpose.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As we pray, we can begin to feel the
quickening of hope in our and the whole world’s soul.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sitting in a church chapel 15 to 30 minutes a
day, reading the Bible each night before sleeping, going to daily Mass, praying
a rosary daily, or reading a good spiritual book, will give us inner strength,
and energize us for the tasks ahead.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Life
will be seen more as promise and possibility deep within the paradoxes.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Once again God will be born: in our hearts,
through our prayer.</span></p><p class="QUOTES" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Have a Blessed Advent Season.</span></p><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-34763530101233657692023-06-06T12:59:00.002-04:002023-06-06T12:59:46.896-04:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQXLuD3MLJrewutp0LVzZuZcWwh4Gr13lUHYxwUK1VrzRwyQEFYvZQ1MWYJCsZ5xf54Ymgt08QGWoA-1Gx3gkZp0So0xbKl7lKywCVdm-QCPc8tIWitvoC7Ex-cEHlSStNs-1Y8z2dL8mfoCy-dmYqwkbCDs4M_JdHoT3Lz0_j0c2Zv0Hq7IY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="573" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQXLuD3MLJrewutp0LVzZuZcWwh4Gr13lUHYxwUK1VrzRwyQEFYvZQ1MWYJCsZ5xf54Ymgt08QGWoA-1Gx3gkZp0So0xbKl7lKywCVdm-QCPc8tIWitvoC7Ex-cEHlSStNs-1Y8z2dL8mfoCy-dmYqwkbCDs4M_JdHoT3Lz0_j0c2Zv0Hq7IY=w209-h118" width="209" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6zLawI83kMcdgBtXTf_KcD0QbaR6H85UPHWKMuTWdDgfWm7VF9G2oJuXIig4YGJpe8VX3pWkg_L3OvfnMZJ97Da2LqX9yU9S8RrxDkYw2glnj15REb1quWuGm8mMubpj_E__V7cyaj64KTPs3EWcizG0jWgg2rMXA8u7KHzmskLXFfUnqnTU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="512" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6zLawI83kMcdgBtXTf_KcD0QbaR6H85UPHWKMuTWdDgfWm7VF9G2oJuXIig4YGJpe8VX3pWkg_L3OvfnMZJ97Da2LqX9yU9S8RrxDkYw2glnj15REb1quWuGm8mMubpj_E__V7cyaj64KTPs3EWcizG0jWgg2rMXA8u7KHzmskLXFfUnqnTU=w180-h117" width="180" /></a><br /><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feast of the Body and
Blood of Christ</span></b></div><p></p><p>
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June 6, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along with
Pentecost and the Feast of the Holy Trinity, this focus on the Eucharist
plunges us into the central mystery of our faith: <b><span style="color: red;">Our
God is an incarnate God, a God with and for us.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Jesus, God takes on human flesh, human
reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our God is as real as the heart
pumping in each of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our God is as
real as the food we eat every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
God feeds us as the Israelites were fed with manna in the desert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In our
celebration of the Eucharist, the Mass, Jesus is really, substantially, present
in four ways.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the community gathered, in the Word proclaimed, in
the person of the priest, and in the consecrated bread and wine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this work of the people, the liturgy, the
sacrifice of Jesus on the cross continues to save and transform us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">One person, bemoaning
the fact that so many take the Eucharist for granted and show little response
to this great gift and mystery, challengingly asks, “What if the bread and wine
change, but we don’t?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grace of
Eucharist transforms us in Christ to become his body in the world today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In John’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><a name="51006048"></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">“<span style="color: red;">I am
the bread of life.<a name="51006049"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a name="51006051"></a>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am the living
bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a name="51006052"></a>The Jews quarreled among
themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?”<a name="51006053"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus said to them,
“Amen, amen, I say to you, <span style="color: red;">unless you eat the flesh of
the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.<a name="51006054"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoever eats my flesh
and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.<a name="51006055"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For my flesh is true
food, and my blood is true drink.<a name="51006056"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
remains in me and I in him.</span><a name="51006057"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… <a name="51006060"></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then many of his disciples who were listening said, <span style="color: red;">“This saying is hard; who can accept it?”<a name="51006061"></a>
</span>Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said
to them, “Does this shock you?<a name="51006062"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if you were to see the Son of Man
ascending to where he was before?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a name="51006063"></a>It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no
avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.<a name="51006064"></a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there are some of you who do not
believe.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a name="51006066"></a><span style="color: red;">As a result
of this, many [of] his disciples returned to their former way of life and no
longer accompanied him.<a name="51006067"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”<a name="51006068"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon Peter answered
him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.<a name="51006069"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have come to
believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God</span>.”</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (John 6)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our praying the
Eucharist sends us forth to transform our world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many find it difficult to accept the
challenge of this teaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was in
Jesus’ time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is in ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s ask God to help us receive the
Eucharist in ways that truly transform us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Eucharist makes us disciples who are Happy and Healthy and Holy and
Free.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6 de Junio, 2023</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos
y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Este domingo celebramos la
Fiesta del Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junto con Pentecostés y la fiesta de la
Santísima Trinidad, esta concentración en la Eucaristía nos sumerge en el
misterio central de nuestra fe: </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nuestro Dios es un Dios
encarnado, un Dios con y para nosotros.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En Jesús, Dios toma carne humana, realidad
humana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nuestro Dios es tan real como el
corazón que late en cada uno de nosotros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nuestro Dios es tan real como los alimentos que comemos cada día.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nuestro Dios nos alimenta como los israelitas
fueron alimentados con el maná en el desierto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En nuestra celebración de
la Eucaristía, la Misa, Jesús está real, sustancialmente, presente de cuatro
maneras.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En la comunidad reunida,
en la Palabra proclamada, en la persona del sacerdote y en el pan y el vino
consagrados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En esta obra del pueblo, la
liturgia, el sacrificio de Jesús en la cruz sigue salvándonos y
transformándonos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Una persona,
lamentando el hecho de que tantos den por sentada la Eucaristía y muestren poca
respuesta a este gran don y misterio, pregunta desafiante: "¿Y si el pan y
el vino cambian, pero nosotros no?".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>La gracia de la Eucaristía nos transforma en Cristo para convertirnos en
su cuerpo en el mundo de hoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En el
Evangelio de Juan, Jesús proclama:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yo soy el pan de vida</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>... Yo soy el pan vivo bajado del cielo; el
que coma de este pan vivirá para siempre; y el pan que yo daré es mi carne para
la vida del mundo".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los judíos
discutían entre sí, diciendo: "¿Cómo puede éste darnos [su] carne a
comer?".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesús les dijo: "</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En verdad, en verdad los
digo: si no comen la carne del Hijo del hombre y no beben <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>su sangre, no tendrán vida en vosotros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El que come mi carne y bebe mi sangre tiene
vida eterna, y yo lo resucitaré en el último día.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Porque mi carne es verdadera comida y mi
sangre es verdadera bebida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El que come
mi carne y bebe mi sangre permanece en mí y yo en él.</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Entonces muchos de sus discípulos que estaban
escuchando dijeron: "</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Esta palabra es dura; ¿quién puede aceptarla</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">?". Como Jesús
sabía que sus discípulos murmuraban de esto, les dijo: "¿Los escandaliza
esto?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Y si vieran al Hijo del hombre
subir a donde estaba antes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es el
espíritu el que da vida, mientras que la carne no sirve para nada. Las palabras
que los he hablado son espíritu y vida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pero hay algunos de Uds. que no creen".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>... <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A raíz de esto, muchos de
sus discípulos volvieron a su antiguo estilo de vida y dejaron de
acompañarle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesús dijo entonces a los
Doce: "¿También Uds. quieren marcharse?".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simón Pedro le respondió: "Maestro, ¿a
quién vamos a ir? Tú tienes palabras de vida eterna.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hemos llegado a creer y estamos convencidos
de que tú eres el Santo de Dios</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">". (Juan 6)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rezar la Eucaristía
nos envía a transformar nuestro mundo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
muchos les cuesta aceptar el desafío de esta enseñanza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así fue en tiempos de Jesús.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>También en la nuestra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pidamos a Dios que nos ayude a recibir la
Eucaristía de manera que realmente nos transforme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La Eucaristía nos hace discípulos felices,
sanos, santos y libres.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La
Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P.
Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-16190803696118723122023-05-31T10:05:00.002-04:002023-05-31T10:05:49.863-04:00<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLdD54UpSqViplt4Ec1v0mb8wwSr2YzG78dfZW4KFot5R1Va-oOU_vJ9HoV353x5kOBQn-tBxoe756EwM478J7UlnONFJC6VxE0Ek1Gc7JsU5_ACzqmGkanUwsDX4d2CFZ6523Rq4g6_Rf4hVBXofZHd95ChsKAQilUYcixKTqKF_Lqc8R0DM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="235" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLdD54UpSqViplt4Ec1v0mb8wwSr2YzG78dfZW4KFot5R1Va-oOU_vJ9HoV353x5kOBQn-tBxoe756EwM478J7UlnONFJC6VxE0Ek1Gc7JsU5_ACzqmGkanUwsDX4d2CFZ6523Rq4g6_Rf4hVBXofZHd95ChsKAQilUYcixKTqKF_Lqc8R0DM" width="158" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwYaN3e53yHdxAyVvAm40wDU4TdiOeVAbuTBdcFjJ28eA5Q7StU05J-8-0ojcDJlgVPbGqwo_KRdnMdzoKpJnGYBkjUPRWpQCqYB2_Xj8VFDXJTHyVkMjHd3HzeR5PufeVeSYhrkkcd8p6Erv8g7hbBQ_G2TkDwwt-ymu9m_c1LVExRBocOd4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="643" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwYaN3e53yHdxAyVvAm40wDU4TdiOeVAbuTBdcFjJ28eA5Q7StU05J-8-0ojcDJlgVPbGqwo_KRdnMdzoKpJnGYBkjUPRWpQCqYB2_Xj8VFDXJTHyVkMjHd3HzeR5PufeVeSYhrkkcd8p6Erv8g7hbBQ_G2TkDwwt-ymu9m_c1LVExRBocOd4" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Become Poverty Abolitionists <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message. May 31, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Today
is the Feast of the Visitation. We
remember that immediately after the angel tells Mary she will be the mother of
the savior, Mary goes in haste to visit Elizabeth. Mary soon bursts into the Magnificat, the
canticle in which she proclaims, <b><span style="color: red;">“God has cast down
the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things and
the rich he has sent away empty” </span></b>(Luke 1:52-53). When Jesus comes among us, everything gets
shaken up and transformed, including our political economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Too
many accept without critique the ideals of neoliberal economic thought: Government should leave markets alone to make
the world in which we live; profits for shareholders are primary while the
needs of workers and the community matter less and less; corporations are not
to be held accountable for the costs of pollution to the planet. In contradiction to </span><a href="https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/seven-themes-of-catholic-social-teaching"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catholic Social Teaching</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, neoliberal economics holds that human
persons are greedy and self-interested, and everyone fighting in a dog eat dog
world is the best we can do <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Matthew
Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, in his new book <i>Poverty by America</i>,
challenges the assumptions surrounding much of our thinking about poverty, the
poor, and the ways we structure our political economy. He argues we have so many poor people in the
United States because we allow it and want this situation to continue. Many of
us benefit off of low wages and subsidies that help the rich, while failing to
demand public policies that would eliminate poverty among us. <b><span style="color: red;">He prophetically
and provocatively calls for us to become Poverty Abolitionists.</span></b> Here
are some excerpts from a NY Times article Desmond published March 9, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Excerpts
from Matthew Desmond “Why Poverty Persists in America”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.1in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(NYTimes. March 9, 2023)</span> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/magazine/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond.html"><span style="color: blue;">Why Poverty Persists in America - The New York Times
(nytimes.com)</span></a> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; letter-spacing: .2pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We’ve approached the poverty question by pointing to poor
people themselves, when we should have been focusing on exploitation.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“12.6
percent of the U.S. population was poor in 1970; two decades later, it was 13.5
percent; in 2010, it was 15.1 percent; and in 2019, it was 10.5 percent.” [<i>In 2021 it was 11.6% (source </i></span><a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-month.html"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-month.html</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">). That’s some 39 million people. That’s equal to the population of California
- addition by Malloy</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“…
[LBJ’s] first five years in office, a breathtaking level of activity. And the
result? Ten years after the first of these programs were rolled out in 1964,
the share of Americans living in poverty was half what it was in 1960.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“…
cellphones have become more affordable over the past few decades, and now most
Americans have one, including many poor people. This has led … senior fellows
at the Brookings Institution, to assert that “access to certain consumer
goods,” like TVs, microwave ovens and cellphones, shows that “the poor are not
quite so poor after all.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> No, it doesn’t. <b><span style="color: red;">You can’t eat a cellphone</span></b>. A cellphone doesn’t
grant you stable housing, affordable medical and dental care or adequate child
care. In fact, <b>as things like cellphones have become cheaper, the cost of
the most necessary of life’s necessities, like health care and rent, has
increased. </b>From 2000 to 2022 in the average American city, the cost of fuel
and utilities increased by 115 percent. The American poor, living as they do in
the center of global capitalism, have access to cheap, mass-produced goods, as
every American does. But that doesn’t mean they can access what matters most.
As Michael Harrington put it 60 years ago: <b>“It is much easier in the United
States to be decently dressed than it is to be decently housed, fed or
doctored.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reagan
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">expanded corporate power, deeply cut taxes on the rich and rolled
back spending on some antipoverty initiatives, especially in housing. But he <b>was
unable to make large-scale, long-term cuts to many of the programs that make up
the American welfare state.</b> … There is no evidence that the United States
has become stingier over time. The opposite is true. <b><span style="color: red;">This makes the
country’s stalled progress on poverty even more baffling</span></b>. Decade
after decade, the poverty rate has remained flat even as federal relief has
surged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
we have more than doubled government spending on poverty and achieved so
little, one reason is that the American welfare state is a leaky bucket</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
Take welfare, for example: … [With
the1996 reform] Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), [President
Clinton] transformed the program into a block grant that gives states
considerable leeway in deciding how to distribute the money. As a result,
states have come up with rather creative ways to spend TANF dollars. Arizona
has used welfare money to pay for abstinence-only sex education. Pennsylvania diverted
TANF funds to anti-abortion crisis-pregnancy centers. Maine used the money to
support a Christian summer camp. <b><span style="color: red;">Nationwide, for </span></b></span><a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/family-income-support/to-promote-equity-states-should-invest-more-tanf-dollars-in-basic-0" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">every dollar budgeted for TANF in 2020,</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<b><span style="color: red;">poor families directly received just 22 cents.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“There
are, it would seem, deeper structural forces at play, ones that have to do with
the way the American poor are routinely taken advantage of. The primary reason
for our stalled progress on poverty reduction has to do with the fact that we
have not confronted the unrelenting exploitation of the poor in the labor,
housing and financial markets.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“…long
history of slum exploitation in America. Money made slums because slums made
money. </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110362/witnesses/HHRG-116-BA00-Wstate-DesmondM-20200114.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Rent has more than doubled over the past two decades,</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
rising much faster than renters’ incomes. Median rent rose from $483 in 2000 to
$1,216 in 2021.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“According
to the F.D.I.C., </span><a href="https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/2019/index.html#:~:text=and%20Financial%20Services-,2019%20FDIC%20Survey,union%20(i.e.,%20bank)" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">one in 19 U.S. households had no bank account in 2019,</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> amounting
to more than seven million families. Compared with white families, Black and
Hispanic families were nearly five times as likely to lack a bank account.
Where there is exclusion, there is exploitation. Unbanked Americans have
created a market, and thousands of check-cashing outlets now serve that market.
Check-cashing stores generally charge from 1 to 10 percent of the total,
depending on the type of check.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">“[A
novel] </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">describe[s] the problem of suicides on Native American
reservations says: <b><span style="color: red;">“Kids are jumping out the windows
of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that
they’re jumping.”</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>The poverty debate
has suffered from a similar kind of myopia. For the past half-century, we’ve
approached the poverty question by pointing to poor people themselves — posing
questions about their work ethic, say, or their welfare benefits — when we
should have been focusing on the fire<span style="color: red;">. <b>The question
that should serve as a looping incantation, the one we should ask every time we
drive past a tent encampment, those tarped American slums smelling of asphalt
and bodies, or every time we see someone asleep on the bus, slumped over in
work clothes, is simply: <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Who benefits?</span></i> </b></span>Not:
<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Why don’t you find a better job?</span></i> Or: <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Why don’t you move?</span></i> Or: <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Why don’t you stop taking out
payday loans?</span></i><b><span style="color: red;"> But: <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Who is feeding off this?”</span></i></span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus
said “The poor you will always have with you” to Judas (John 12:4-5). People like Judas keep people in
poverty. Jesus wants us to free everyone
from all the enslaves and diminishes our flourishing as human beings and
community. Let’s read Desmond’s book and
let’s join together to eradicate poverty in our world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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Safe. Keep Sane. Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Convertirse
en abolicionistas de la pobreza <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.
31 de Mayo, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hoy es la fiesta de la Visitación. Recordamos que, inmediatamente después de que
el ángel le dijera a María que sería la madre del Salvador, María se apresuró a
visitar a Isabel. Pronto prorrumpe en el
Magnificat, cántico en el que proclama: </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Dios
ha derribado del trono a los poderosos y ha enaltecido a los humildes. A los hambrientos los sació de bienes y a los
ricos los despidió vacíos"</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Lucas 1,
52-53). Cuando Jesús viene entre
nosotros, todo se sacude y se transforma, incluida nuestra economía política.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Demasiados aceptan sin crítica los ideales del pensamiento
económico neoliberal: El gobierno debe
dejar que los mercados hagan solos el mundo en que vivimos; los beneficios para
los accionistas son primordiales, mientras que las necesidades de los
trabajadores y de la comunidad importan cada vez menos; las empresas no deben
responder de los costes de la contaminación del planeta. En contradicción con </span><a href="https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/seven-themes-of-catholic-social-teaching"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">la
doctrina social católica</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, la economía
neoliberal sostiene que los seres humanos son codiciosos y egoístas, y que lo
mejor que podemos hacer es luchar todos contra todos en un mundo donde el perro
se come al perro. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew Desmond, sociólogo de Princeton, en su nuevo libro
Poverty by America, cuestiona los supuestos que rodean gran parte de nuestro
pensamiento sobre la pobreza, los pobres y las formas en que estructuramos
nuestra economía política. Sostiene que
tenemos tantos pobres en Estados Unidos porque lo permitimos y queremos que
esta situación continúe. Muchos de nosotros nos beneficiamos de los bajos
salarios y de las subvenciones que ayudan a los ricos, mientras que no exigimos
políticas públicas que eliminen la pobreza entre nosotros. </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">De manera profética y
provocadora, nos llama a convertirnos en Abolicionistas de la Pobreza.</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> He aquí algunos extractos de un artículo del NY Times que
Desmond publicó el 9 de marzo de 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Extractos de Matthew Desmond "Por qué
persiste la pobreza en América"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(NYTimes. 9 de marzo de 2023) </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/magazine/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond.html"><span style="color: blue;">Why Poverty Persists in America - The New York Times
(nytimes.com)</span></a> <span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Hemos abordado la cuestión de la pobreza señalando a los
propios pobres, cuando deberíamos habernos centrado en la explotación".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"El 12,6 por ciento de la población estadounidense era
pobre en 1970; dos décadas después, era el 13,5 por ciento; en 2010, era el
15,1 por ciento; y en 2019, era el 10,5 por ciento." [En 2021 era del 11,6% (Fuente </span><a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-month.html"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-month.html</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)</span></i><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Eso supone unos 39
millones de personas. Eso es igual a la
población de California -adición de Malloy].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"... Los primeros cinco años [de LBJ] en el cargo, un nivel
de actividad impresionante. ¿Y el resultado? Diez años después de la puesta en
marcha del primero de estos programas en 1964, la proporción de estadounidenses
que vivían en la pobreza era la mitad que en 1960."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"... los teléfonos móviles se han hecho más asequibles en
las últimas décadas, y ahora la mayoría de los estadounidenses tienen uno,
incluidos muchos pobres. Esto ha llevado ... a altos cargos de la Brookings
Institution, a afirmar que "el acceso a ciertos bienes de consumo",
como televisores, hornos microondas y teléfonos móviles, demuestra que
"los pobres no son tan pobres después de todo". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> No, no es así. </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No se puede comer un teléfono móvil.</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Un teléfono móvil no te garantiza una vivienda
estable, una atención médica y dental asequible o un cuidado infantil adecuado.
De hecho, a medida que cosas como los teléfonos móviles se han abaratado, el
coste de las necesidades vitales más necesarias, como la atención sanitaria y
el alquiler, ha aumentado. De 2000 a 2022, en una ciudad estadounidense media,
el coste del combustible y los servicios públicos aumentó un 115%. Los pobres
estadounidenses, que viven en el centro del capitalismo mundial, tienen acceso
a bienes baratos producidos en masa, como todos los estadounidenses. Pero eso
no significa que puedan acceder a lo que más importa. Como dijo Michael
Harrington hace 60 años: "En Estados Unidos es mucho más fácil estar
decentemente vestido que estar decentemente alojado, alimentado o aseado".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reagan </span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">amplió el poder de las
empresas, recortó profundamente los impuestos a los ricos y redujo el gasto en
algunas iniciativas contra la pobreza, especialmente en vivienda. Pero fue
incapaz de hacer recortes a gran escala y a largo plazo en muchos de los
programas que conforman el Estado del bienestar estadounidense. ... No hay pruebas de que Estados Unidos se
haya vuelto más tacaño con el paso del tiempo. Todo lo contrario. </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Esto hace aún más
desconcertante el estancado progreso del país en materia de pobreza. Década
tras década, la tasa de pobreza se ha mantenido estable a pesar del aumento de
las ayudas federales.</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Si hemos duplicado con creces el gasto público en pobreza y
hemos conseguido tan poco, una de las razones es que el Estado del bienestar
estadounidense es un cubo agujereado. Con la reforma de 1996 de la Asistencia
Temporal para Familias Necesitadas (TANF, por sus siglas en inglés), el
presidente Clinton transformó el programa en una subvención en bloque que da a
los estados un margen considerable para decidir cómo distribuir el dinero. Como
resultado, los estados han ideado formas bastante creativas de gastar el dinero
del TANF. Arizona ha utilizado el dinero de la ayuda social para pagar la
educación sexual basada únicamente en la abstinencia. Pensilvania desvió fondos
del TANF a centros antiaborto para mujeres embarazadas en crisis. Maine utilizó
el dinero para financiar un campamento de verano cristiano. </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En todo el país,</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/income-security/to-strengthen-economic-security-and-advance-equity-states-should-invest"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">por
cada dólar presupuestado para el TANF en 2020</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">las familias pobres recibieron directamente sólo
22 céntimos.</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Hay, al parecer, fuerzas estructurales más profundas en
juego, que tienen que ver con la forma en que se aprovechan rutinariamente de
los pobres estadounidenses. La razón principal de nuestro estancado progreso en
la reducción de la pobreza tiene que ver con el hecho de que no nos hemos
enfrentado a la implacable explotación de los pobres en los mercados laboral,
inmobiliario y financiero."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"...larga historia de explotación de los barrios marginales
en Estados Unidos. El dinero hizo los barrios marginales porque los barrios
marginales hicieron dinero. </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El alquiler se ha más que
duplicado en las últimas dos décadas, aumentando mucho más rápido que los
ingresos de los inquilinos.</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> El alquiler medio
pasó de 483 dólares en 2000 a 1.216 dólares en 2021". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Según el F.D.I.C., uno de cada 19 hogares estadounidenses
no tenía cuenta bancaria en 2019, lo que supone más de siete millones de
familias. En comparación con las familias blancas, las familias negras e
hispanas tenían casi cinco veces más probabilidades de carecer de una cuenta
bancaria. Donde hay exclusión, hay explotación. Los estadounidenses sin cuenta
bancaria han creado un mercado, y miles de establecimientos de cambio de
cheques sirven ahora a ese mercado. Los establecimientos de cambio de cheques
suelen cobrar entre el 1% y el 10% del total, según el tipo de cheque".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"[Una novela] describe el problema de los suicidios en las
reservas de nativos americanos dice: </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Los niños saltan por
las ventanas de edificios en llamas, caen al vacío y mueren. Y creemos que el
problema es que están saltando"</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. El debate sobre la
pobreza ha sufrido un tipo similar de miopía. Durante el último medio siglo,
hemos abordado la cuestión de la pobreza señalando a los propios pobres
-planteando preguntas sobre su ética laboral, digamos, o sus prestaciones
sociales- cuando deberíamos habernos centrado en el fuego. </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La pregunta que debería servir como encantamiento en bucle, la que
deberíamos hacernos cada vez que pasamos en coche por delante de un campamento
de tiendas de campaña, esos tugurios estadounidenses alquitranados que huelen a
asfalto y cadáveres, o cada vez que vemos a alguien dormido en el autobús,
desplomado en ropa de trabajo, es simplemente: ¿A quién beneficia?</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> No: ¿Por qué no encuentras un trabajo mejor? O: ¿Por qué no te
mudas? O: ¿Por qué no dejas de pedir préstamos? </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sino: ¿Quién se está alimentando de esto?"</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesús le dijo a Judas: "A los pobres los tendréis siempre
con vosotros" (Juan 12:4-5). La
gente como Judas mantiene a la gente en la pobreza. Jesús quiere que liberemos a todo el mundo de
todas las esclavitudes y diminishe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro. Sigamos Sano. Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></p></div>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-48737973981538409842023-05-25T12:54:00.008-04:002023-05-25T13:02:30.173-04:00The Right To Life. Everyone has a right to their body. That includes unborn children.<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWeVGOXfd2Qm9icGfHey-mwwyuvZjnDh1PPmTazkR6YHD9zF7ggZepskzmioz0mf3X8Dt2tHfBHbv4XE6N0fb4bvG8Hnfc7UWcu59niL9uukduJiG-yGjNGZWhTHJv9uZrW3SeLFSfwyv6b8YURdjojq-Nu-uLsmnZ2ARxMFueA1Zaqaf4v3Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="143" data-original-width="254" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWeVGOXfd2Qm9icGfHey-mwwyuvZjnDh1PPmTazkR6YHD9zF7ggZepskzmioz0mf3X8Dt2tHfBHbv4XE6N0fb4bvG8Hnfc7UWcu59niL9uukduJiG-yGjNGZWhTHJv9uZrW3SeLFSfwyv6b8YURdjojq-Nu-uLsmnZ2ARxMFueA1Zaqaf4v3Q=w257-h144" width="257" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGEJy1EXNbqGKJjMnWQmAhJt_84JpI2TeydgdLwCkUN5B3POE_Xaxxe8My5Kj7yONvKp7UvAF4VbO1C-X-2R4BXx2Wkr2ruXX0Lz9_lS3-KTave1m75USPAeZVSDC3NArkcfW8e07UnpX5TimLVMo6UAfa8W1dXrQgFsPGoDrtgjkApvJkaNM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="189" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGEJy1EXNbqGKJjMnWQmAhJt_84JpI2TeydgdLwCkUN5B3POE_Xaxxe8My5Kj7yONvKp7UvAF4VbO1C-X-2R4BXx2Wkr2ruXX0Lz9_lS3-KTave1m75USPAeZVSDC3NArkcfW8e07UnpX5TimLVMo6UAfa8W1dXrQgFsPGoDrtgjkApvJkaNM=w207-h156" width="207" /></a><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 36pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Right to Life<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 1.0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 1in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Everyone
has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” (Article 3 of the
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, 1948) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May 24, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Catholic
Church teaches that all human life is sacred and must be protected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Keystone of Catholic Social Teaching is
the Dignity of the Human Person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
persons have the right to be respected by all, especially by the laws of the
state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This teaching about the dignity
of the human person enlightens moral choices concerning issues such as the
death penalty, euthanasia, abortion, a living wage, war, and a whole number of
matters pertaining to biochemical manipulation of human life from stem cell research
to cloning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Catholic Bishops state: </span><a href="https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/seven-themes-of-catholic-social-teaching"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We believe that every person is precious, that people are
more important than things, and that the measure of every institution is
whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person</span></b></a><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Following
the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, much is being debated about the issues
concerning abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a Catholic and
Jesuit school, it is good to know the Catholic church’s teaching on the dignity
of human life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone has a right to
their body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That includes unborn
children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One has a right to one’s body
while in the womb of their mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><a href="https://www.jesuits.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Protecting_the_Least_ENGLISH-FINAL-1-18-2018.pdf"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, teach that we must defend
the most vulnerable among us</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">As we Jesuits survey our culture, we
cannot help but see abortion as part of the massive injustices in our society.
A spirit of callous disregard for life shows itself in direct assaults on human
life such as abortion and capital punishment. There are less direct but equally
senseless ways we undermine life, through violence, racism, xenophobia, and the
growing inequality of wealth and education. We also seek justice in ensuring
that pregnant women and mothers have the resources they need to care for their children
and live full lives. These realities compel us to speak out in defense of life
and human flourishing.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On April 26, 2023, a panel of five women testified before congress
on the issues surrounding abortion</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both pro-choice and pro-life views where
shared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Dr.
Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst. (pictured in the upper left photo</span></b><span style="color: red;">)</span> an OB GYN doctor, eloquently and forcefully spoke in
defense of unborn children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
testimony begins at minute 35.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?527656-1/senate-judiciary-hearing-texas-abortion-pill-ruling"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;">https://www.c-span.org/video/?527656-1/senate-judiciary-hearing-texas-abortion-pill-ruling</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;"> . She notes the racial disparities among “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">abortion rates, abortion mortality, and non-abortion related
maternal mortality, between black and white women.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, here too, systemic racism threatens
lives.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;">Dr.
Wubbenhorst testified (her remarks are edited here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See the video above for her full discourse)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0.3in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Abortion
not only poses risks to the mother; it is also by definition always lethal to
an embryo or fetus, an unborn child, a human being, a member of the human
family, not a clump of cells or potential child, but a child assuming the human
form. Abortion’s goal is to kill that human being. It neither treats nor
prevents any disease and is therefore not health care. This is reinforced by
the fact that the majority of OB GYN 's do not perform abortions. Studies show
that the percentage that do is declining and has been for decades, from a high
of 40% in 1985 to between 7% and 24% at present. …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Since Roe v Wade an estimated 17 million
unborn African Americans have been aborted in the United States, which is more
than the populations of the countries of Senegal and Cambodia respectfully, and
slightly less than the entire population of the Netherlands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means the deaths of not only the 17
million black people who were aborted, but all their descendants, their
families hopes and dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Annually,
approximately 300,000 black women undergo abortion every year, while in 2021
there were approximately 518,000 births to black women. A number that continues
to decline. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There are substantial racial disparities in
abortion rates, abortion mortality, and non-abortion related maternal
mortality, between black and white women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>38% of abortions occur in black women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A rate which is 2 to 3 times higher than that of white women, even
though we compromise only 12% to 14% of the total US population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An estimated 684 black children are aborted
every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>African American women also
have a two to three times higher mortality rate from abortion compared with
white women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, black women have
the highest rates of abortion and the highest rates of maternal mortality. Both
of these facts cannot be true if abortion reduces maternal mortality.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Choices
surrounding these matters are often difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As Pope Francis says, we must do much more to accompany and help women
and men who, in distress, see abortion as their only alternative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must remember that the one who teaches
“Thou shall not kill” (Matthew 19:18) also counsels “Thou shall not judge (Matthew
7:1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we continue to investigate and
learn about the issues of life, may God guide us to all truth and loving
choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May we always protect the
vulnerable among us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep
Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<div style="border: 2.5pt double windowtext; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0.7in; mso-border-alt: triple windowtext 2.5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: triple windowtext 2.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt;">“We have done
little to adequately accompany women in very difficult situations, where
abortion appears as a quick solution to their profound anguish.” – Pope Francis</span></b></p></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8FbAqhXkAbyplhiiYq0d2TaJB9mkNVW4k9v459MkZWCJULHIMYginZvm_R_ClCPeJ4LYNXmG2UP-Mv7vUoFA0_fWove321Gk-xLLfT62zFX5hxMNOSHx1eVSBc43W62H_l0LLa7Al33MEYptEwPefJCi-JBNkreIdxafzjlfFaXTCzM_ifWM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="143" data-original-width="254" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8FbAqhXkAbyplhiiYq0d2TaJB9mkNVW4k9v459MkZWCJULHIMYginZvm_R_ClCPeJ4LYNXmG2UP-Mv7vUoFA0_fWove321Gk-xLLfT62zFX5hxMNOSHx1eVSBc43W62H_l0LLa7Al33MEYptEwPefJCi-JBNkreIdxafzjlfFaXTCzM_ifWM=w236-h132" width="236" /> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJfnxgVB2utCAnI9FgGJKdhYEtlBuSVCeIoouD-kzn-d7L98kQ0gPWQgw2R5rRRd8w5LrncrMIZUINwSvdMwufETE615M_q4B488048K2EU7DB6NQQp9fjp8n16OetPW84BPUMImiAElhKiZL6wmGUueSgmdkW_5vv0tVrJNuqTcqz3EJQ1GA" style="font-size: 16pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="139" data-original-width="207" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJfnxgVB2utCAnI9FgGJKdhYEtlBuSVCeIoouD-kzn-d7L98kQ0gPWQgw2R5rRRd8w5LrncrMIZUINwSvdMwufETE615M_q4B488048K2EU7DB6NQQp9fjp8n16OetPW84BPUMImiAElhKiZL6wmGUueSgmdkW_5vv0tVrJNuqTcqz3EJQ1GA=w192-h128" width="192" /></a><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></b></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Derecho a La Vida<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Todo
individuo tiene derecho a la vida, a la libertad y a la seguridad de su persona.”
(Artículo 3 de la Declaración de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, 1948<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>24 de Mayo, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y
Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Iglesia Católica enseña que toda vida
humana es sagrada y debe ser protegida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>La piedra angular de la doctrina social católica es la dignidad de la
persona humana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todas las personas
tienen derecho a ser respetadas por todos, especialmente por las leyes del
Estado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esta enseñanza sobre la dignidad
de la persona humana ilumina las opciones morales relativas a cuestiones como
la pena de muerte, la eutanasia, el aborto, el salario digno, la guerra y toda
una serie de asuntos relacionados con la manipulación bioquímica de la vida
humana, desde la investigación con células madre hasta la clonación.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los obispos católicos afirman: </span><a href="https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/seven-themes-of-catholic-social-teaching"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Creemos que cada persona es preciosa, que las personas
son más importantes que las cosas, y que la medida de cada institución es si
amenaza o mejora la vida y la dignidad de la persona humana</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tras la decisión de Dobbs del Tribunal Supremo,
se está debatiendo mucho sobre las cuestiones relativas al aborto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Como colegio católico y jesuita, es bueno
conocer la enseñanza de la Iglesia católica sobre la dignidad de la vida
humana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Toda persona tiene derecho a su
cuerpo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eso incluye a los niños no
nacidos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uno tiene derecho a su cuerpo
mientras está en el vientre de su madre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><a href="https://www.jesuits.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Protecting_the_Least_ENGLISH-FINAL-1-18-2018.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Compañía de Jesús enseña que debemos defender a los más
vulnerables entre nosotros.</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
"Cuando los jesuitas examinamos nuestra cultura, no podemos evitar ver el
aborto como parte de las injusticias masivas de nuestra sociedad. Un espíritu
de cruel desprecio por la vida se manifiesta en ataques directos a la vida
humana como el aborto y la pena capital. Hay formas menos directas pero
igualmente insensatas de socavar la vida, a través de la violencia, el racismo,
la xenofobia y la creciente desigualdad de riqueza y educación. También
buscamos la justicia garantizando que las mujeres embarazadas y las madres
dispongan de los recursos necesarios para cuidar de sus hijos y vivir una vida
plena. Estas realidades nos obligan a pronunciarnos en defensa de la vida y el
florecimiento humano."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El 26 de abril de 2023, un grupo de cinco
mujeres testificó ante el Congreso sobre cuestiones relacionadas con el
aborto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Se compartieron puntos de vista
tanto a favor del aborto como a favor de la vida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Dra. Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst. (en la foto superior izquierda)</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, ginecóloga y obstetra, habló con elocuencia
y contundencia en defensa de los niños no nacidos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Su testimonio comienza en el minuto 35.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?527656-1/senate-judiciary-hearing-texas-abortion-pill-ruling"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.c-span.org/video/?527656-1/senate-judiciary-hearing-texas-abortion-pill-ruling</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Señala las disparidades raciales entre "tasas de aborto, mortalidad
por aborto y mortalidad materna no relacionada con el aborto, entre mujeres blancas
y negras".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lamentablemente, también
en este caso el racismo sistémico amenaza vidas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Dra. Wubbenhorst testificó (sus comentarios
están editados aquí. Ver el vídeo de arriba para su discurso completo)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0.3in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"El
aborto no sólo supone riesgos para la madre; también es, por definición,
siempre letal para un embrión o feto, un niño no nacido, un ser humano, un
miembro de la familia humana, no un grupo de células o un niño en potencia,
sino un niño que asume la forma humana. El objetivo del aborto es matar a ese
ser humano. No trata ni previene ninguna enfermedad y, por tanto, no es
asistencia sanitaria. Esto se ve reforzado por el hecho de que la mayoría de
los ginecólogos obstetras no practican abortos. Los estudios muestran que el
porcentaje que lo hace está disminuyendo y así ha sido durante décadas, desde
un máximo del 40% en 1985 a entre el 7% y el 24% en la actualidad. ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0.3in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Desde
el caso Roe contra Wade, se calcula que 17 millones de afroamericanos no
nacidos han sido abortados en Estados Unidos, lo que supone más que la
población de los países de Senegal y Camboya, respectivamente, y algo menos que
toda la población de los Países Bajos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Esto significa la muerte no sólo de los 17 millones de personas negras
que fueron abortadas, sino de todos sus descendientes, las esperanzas y los
sueños de sus familias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anualmente,
aproximadamente 300.000 mujeres negras se someten a abortos cada año, mientras
que en 2021 hubo aproximadamente 518.000 nacimientos de mujeres negras. Una
cifra que sigue disminuyendo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0.3in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Existen
disparidades raciales sustanciales en las tasas de aborto, mortalidad por
aborto y mortalidad materna no relacionada con el aborto, entre mujeres negras
y blancas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El 38% de los abortos se
producen en mujeres negras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Una tasa que
es de 2 a 3 veces superior a la de las mujeres blancas, a pesar de que sólo
comprometemos entre el 12% y el 14% de la población total de Estados
Unidos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Se calcula que cada día se
abortan 684 niños negros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Las mujeres
afroamericanas también tienen una tasa de mortalidad por aborto de dos a tres
veces superior a la de las mujeres blancas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Por lo tanto, las mujeres negras tienen las tasas más altas de aborto y
las tasas más altas de mortalidad materna. Ambos hechos no pueden ser ciertos
si el aborto reduce la mortalidad materna".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Las decisiones en torno a estas cuestiones
suelen ser difíciles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Como dice el Papa
Francisco, debemos hacer mucho más para acompañar y ayudar a las mujeres y
hombres que, angustiados, ven en el aborto su única alternativa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Debemos recordar que el que enseña "No
matarás" (Mateo 19:18) también aconseja "No juzgarás" (Mateo
7:1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mientras seguimos investigando y
aprendiendo sobre las cuestiones de la vida, que Dios nos guíe hacia la verdad
y hacia opciones amorosas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Que
protejamos siempre a los más vulnerables.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<div style="border: 2.5pt double windowtext; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-right: 0.3in; mso-border-alt: triple windowtext 2.5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-alt: triple windowtext 2.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hemos hecho poco para acompañar
adecuadamente a las mujeres en situaciones muy difíciles, en las que el aborto
aparece como una solución rápida a su profunda angustia.” - Papa Francisco<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</div><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-11669014268918124262023-04-11T09:56:00.002-04:002023-04-11T09:56:44.610-04:00He is Risen! He is Truly Risen!<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4Nl3krlDpjlIz4nsfWLNhstKTAcc7GQAKWKIw8obSYTrGJo7zTE_-sOWBByhTiU3mRJpCR1ggvPUQHVYmuoDjP92MgbXguQl0HVS6p59Fpns6VTmSz56_t09RsDmAJY1ro_D54VXc-ElrFagM9I2v1oagOh9IgOZKJWzeLJ__50QLH53xKEU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="378" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4Nl3krlDpjlIz4nsfWLNhstKTAcc7GQAKWKIw8obSYTrGJo7zTE_-sOWBByhTiU3mRJpCR1ggvPUQHVYmuoDjP92MgbXguQl0HVS6p59Fpns6VTmSz56_t09RsDmAJY1ro_D54VXc-ElrFagM9I2v1oagOh9IgOZKJWzeLJ__50QLH53xKEU=w355-h199" width="355" /></a> </p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
is Risen! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is Truly Risen!</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April 12, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">This week we celebrate the event
that changes all of human history, the event that gives meaning and hope to our
world, a world so mired in despair, destruction and death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Resurrection means
the triumph of good over evil, the truth that in the end, love wins: love
always wins. </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the
resurrection, all of human history is bathed in the new light of peace, the new
trust in our God who saves us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bishop N. T. Wright, the world’s
leading scripture scholar, was interviewed by <i>The New York Times</i> about
the reality of the resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
enthusiastically and cogently teaches that the resurrection is a real
event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/opinion/jesus-rise-from-the-dead-easter.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/opinion/jesus-rise-from-the-dead-easter.html</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">N.T. Wright: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m well
aware that many people — including some in churches — have treated the
resurrection and Easter as a general way of talking about the rebirth of hope
or a spiritual metaphor. Indeed, in the New Testament, the idea of resurrection
is sometimes used metaphorically to talk about a new moral life, a life where
everything is going to be different. But in the New Testament, that’s always
rooted in the claim that when they’re talking about resurrection, they’re
talking about something that <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">actually</span></i> happened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the first century, the word for resurrection, the Greek
word “anastasis,” was never about a vague sense of possibility or the rebirth
of hope or anything like that. It was always about people who had been bodily
dead now discovered to be bodily alive. I’ve shown in great detail in the book
that all the early Christians for whom we have any evidence, right through
until around 150 years after the time of Jesus, when they’re talking about
resurrection, <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">that’s </span></i>what they’re talking
about.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s beyond question that when the first followers of Jesus
used that language about him, they intended to say something definite about his
being bodily alive, albeit in a whole new way. He seemed to have gone through
death and out the other side, but into a new world in which he was emphatically
embodied. Unless we are prepared to acknowledge that, we’re simply not taking
their words seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, as now, claiming that somebody was alive again —
particularly somebody who made the sort of claims that Jesus made or were made
about him — was revolutionary. It was dangerous talk. So if people don’t like
dangerous talk, then stay away from Easter is my advice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">These days let’s get close to this
“dangerous talk” of resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s
realize how revolutionary the proclamation of the resurrection was, and still
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus risen means we have to get
busy building a world of peace and justice for all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must, as followers of the risen Christ,
live the way he told us to live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need
to forgive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must serve the poor and
work to eradicate poverty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be
filled with peace and joy as we carry on the mission Jesus began, the mission
God radically blessed through the Holy Spirit given at Pentecost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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resucitado!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ha resucitado de verdad!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>12 de Abril, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Amigos y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Esta semana celebramos el
acontecimiento que cambia toda la historia de la humanidad, el acontecimiento
que da sentido y esperanza a nuestro mundo, un mundo tan sumido en la
desesperación, la destrucción y la muerte.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b><span style="color: red;">La resurrección significa el triunfo del bien
sobre el mal, la verdad de que, al final, vence el amor: el amor siempre vence.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tras la resurrección, toda la historia humana
se baña en la nueva luz de la paz, la nueva confianza en nuestro Dios que nos
salva.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El obispo N. T. Wright, el principal
biblista del mundo, fue entrevistado por <i>el New York Times</i> sobre la
realidad de la resurrección.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Con
entusiasmo y contundencia enseña que la resurrección es un acontecimiento real.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/opinion/jesus-rise-from-the-dead-easter.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/opinion/jesus-rise-from-the-dead-easter.html</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">N.T.
Wright</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">: Soy muy consciente de que mucha
gente -incluidos algunos en las iglesias- ha tratado la resurrección y la
Pascua como una forma general de hablar del renacimiento de la esperanza o una
metáfora espiritual. De hecho, en el Nuevo Testamento, la idea de resurrección
se utiliza a veces metafóricamente para hablar de una nueva vida moral, una
vida en la que todo va a ser diferente. Pero en el Nuevo Testamento, eso
siempre se basa en la afirmación de que cuando se habla de resurrección, se
está hablando de algo que sucedió realmente.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">En
el siglo I, la palabra resurrección, la palabra griega "anastasis",
nunca se refería a una vaga sensación de posibilidad o al renacimiento de la
esperanza ni nada por el estilo. Siempre se refería a personas que habían
estado muertas corporalmente y ahora se descubría que estaban vivas
corporalmente. He demostrado con gran detalle en el libro que todos los
primeros cristianos de los que tenemos alguna evidencia, hasta alrededor de 150
años después de la época de Jesús, cuando hablan de resurrección, eso es de lo
que están hablando.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Es
incuestionable que cuando los primeros seguidores de Jesús utilizaron ese
lenguaje sobre él, tenían la intención de decir algo definitivo sobre su vida
corporal, aunque de una manera totalmente nueva. Parecía haber pasado por la
muerte y haber salido por el otro lado, pero a un mundo nuevo en el que se
había encarnado. A menos que estemos dispuestos a reconocerlo, sencillamente no
estaremos tomando en serio sus palabras.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Entonces,
como ahora, afirmar que alguien estaba vivo de nuevo -especialmente alguien que
hacía el tipo de afirmaciones que Jesús hizo o se hicieron sobre él- era
revolucionario. Era un discurso peligroso. Así que si a la gente no le gustan
las palabras peligrosas, mi consejo es que se mantenga alejada de la Pascua.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Acerquémonos estos días a esta
"charla peligrosa" de la resurrección.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Démonos cuenta de lo revolucionaria que fue,
y sigue siendo, la proclamación de la resurrección.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesús resucitado significa que tenemos que
ponernos manos a la obra para construir un mundo de paz y justicia para todos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Debemos, como seguidores de Cristo
resucitado, vivir como él nos dijo que viviéramos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Debemos perdonar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Debemos servir a los pobres y trabajar para
erradicar la pobreza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nos llenaremos de
paz y alegría al continuar la misión que Jesús comenzó, la misión que Dios
bendijo radicalmente mediante el Espíritu Santo dado en Pentecostés.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">¡Aleluya!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Aleluya! ¡¡¡Aleluya!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Canta Alabaré<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIn-_lkccpG4cYb1mgg9Gizd5alw5ZabSrHcFyaW_HwBKkLOkYOOVo_MGosDpzNBvtTP8x9o7W_88j2hksiF9_GDI3YVM7FtkZ8ofwx4kFFgYQnfmXz0xVRoLrLKgjd2Lkygm7gGgAVqfMI10IWRPFrJk6s1YWHg4NVUAkaSsZg5wNK7jzRRI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="136" data-original-width="242" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIn-_lkccpG4cYb1mgg9Gizd5alw5ZabSrHcFyaW_HwBKkLOkYOOVo_MGosDpzNBvtTP8x9o7W_88j2hksiF9_GDI3YVM7FtkZ8ofwx4kFFgYQnfmXz0xVRoLrLKgjd2Lkygm7gGgAVqfMI10IWRPFrJk6s1YWHg4NVUAkaSsZg5wNK7jzRRI" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-82721823756594978712023-04-08T08:48:00.002-04:002023-04-08T08:48:47.437-04:00Holy Saturday: Be Amazed and Amazing<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_rIxc5J54G4UjIOLIN4XDxv5Z9srBD8iCbnjSOAX7-swTU1iBrp0HDjvKoLt0xRWuzdheEi5K7urBsCdT1WbrokatSp3YNYgAl6pDATlntwz3JUa2OFloofDdmcoN48wefO5A0xUZh-ZyREMzACAqkWUgWPnkF5Udh0HNPzbK63zLUsZuPeA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_rIxc5J54G4UjIOLIN4XDxv5Z9srBD8iCbnjSOAX7-swTU1iBrp0HDjvKoLt0xRWuzdheEi5K7urBsCdT1WbrokatSp3YNYgAl6pDATlntwz3JUa2OFloofDdmcoN48wefO5A0xUZh-ZyREMzACAqkWUgWPnkF5Udh0HNPzbK63zLUsZuPeA" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holy
Saturday<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“… And They Were Utterly Amazed”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s an old joke about a guy
walking in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he passes a
manhole cover, all of a sudden there’s a massive explosion underground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The earth trembles and the manhole cover
flies straight up, flipping over and over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The New Yorker, not fazed in the least, looks up and observes the
spinning 150 pound disc as it reaches its apex and starts flipping downward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks intently and, without missing a beat,
pronounces, “Heads.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing amazes a
real New Yorker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve seen it all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Too many of us today find it hard to
be amazed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life becomes routine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marriage feels like a comfortable old
coat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing our spouses say can
surprise us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some feel they can predict
what their better half will say before they say it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice I didn’t take sides one which is the
better half, the husband or the wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
a few years in a Jesuit community, it’s even worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least you only have to listen to your
spouse tell the same old stories over and over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I live with twenty Jesuits who keep telling the same old stories over
and over and over and over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they can
probably predict what I will say on most topics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And certainly nothing I say will amaze them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This evening we heard Matthew’s
Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But take a look at Mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark has a telling detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark’s Gospel tells us, “They were amazed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This resurrection is a new story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This hasn’t been told before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing, I mean nothing, like this has ever
happened before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It begins to dawn on
the disciples that the crucified one has risen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The women are the first witnesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They proclaim: The Lord Jesus lives!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hopes, dashed and broken, reignite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can we allow ourselves to be amazed?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Can we open our minds and hearts and let in the joyous news that what
happens to Jesus happens to us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can we
believe it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will we live it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the angel immediately tells
them, “Don’t be amazed!” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The risen Jesus is heading to Galilee, the region where God among us
began his annunciation of the new dawn, the reign of God’s breaking through
into our time and space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s time to begin to live the way of life he
articulated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Don’t be amazed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be amazing</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start forming the Body of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be the Jesus who conquers death and gives us
life and life eternal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be the Jesus who
calls us to love everyone, even our enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Get going and build with God the Kingdom of truth and trust, justice and
joy, peace and prosperity, hope and healing, faith and freedom, love and life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All the readings tonight speak the
story of our God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the opening words
of Genesis to the call of Abraham, to the freedom song of Exodus through the
consoling words of the prophets Isaiah, Baruch and Ezekiel, we have a “Top Ten”
of scripture readings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Psalms are
the actual greatest hits of Israel, King David having been the world’s first
Rock Star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. Paul reminds us we have
died with Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Mark takes us back
to the earliest accounts of the moment that changed all of human history, the
resurrection of Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s allow ourselves to be amazed
by all this.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And let’s get moving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s be amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s live as disciples of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we see the equivalent of manhole covers
flipping in the air like coins tossed by schoolchildren, let’s realize that
something awesome and magnificent is happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we see water poured on heads and lives transformed for eternity,
let’s be stunned and astonished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
then, let’s get moving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s allow the
Holy Spirit to invigorate our lives and get us doing the deeds God needs done
to make the reign of God real in our lives and in the lives of our contemporaries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By responding to those hurt, suffering, and crucified in our days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sr. Linda Stilling, SSND, a great apostle to
the people of Camden, NJ, for over twenty five years used to say, “You have to stay
with people in their pain, until you begin to feel the joy of resurrection.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holy Saturday is the time between
the cross and the resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wait
for God’s response to the crucifixion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mary Magdalene, Mary and Salome are responding to the horror of his
murder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They want to prayerfully anoint
the body of the one they listened to and came to love, the one they had hoped
would be the Messiah of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
find an empty tomb and it begins to dawn on them; <b>the Lord of Life has risen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord of Life has risen</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Wait, really, the Lord of Life has risen.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Jesus, their Rabbi and Lord, has
overcome death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They begin to hear again
the words of the beatitudes and the parables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The teachings of the Beatitudes and Matthew 25, feed the hungry, visit
those in prison, begin to amaze them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
they realize it’s time to get moving, to tell the world we are to pray the Our
Father, reconcile with those from whom we are estranged, and take up our cross
and follow Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
great Jesuit preacher John Kavanaugh, S.J., writes of Holy Saturday: “Jesus
entered the deeps of death, a plunge he need not have made, had he not loved us
in our sorry state. But he went to death with a “yes,” with the utter trust of
Abraham, the constancy of Moses, the bright reliance of Isaiah. In Easter’s
vigil, we plunge with him: “Are you not aware that we who were baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Being like him through likeness to
his death, so shall we be through a like resurrection” (<i>THE WORD ENGAGED:
Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures, </i>Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York
(1997), pp. 53-55.)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chicago’s former Cardinal George tells
a story of being in Africa visiting missionary priests of his order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several African tribesmen came into the
parish center to learn of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One man
refused to enter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cardinal George
engaged him in conversation and gently asked him why he did not want to listen
to the lessons about Jesus the others wanted to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man replied, “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I’ve
decided that it makes no sense when I look at my life - that God would love us,
that God would sacrifice himself for us, that God is stronger than the spirits
who harm us. <b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t believe it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s too good to be true” </b>(Francis
Cardinal George.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The Difference God Makes</i>. New York,
NY: Crossroads. Pp. 259-260)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That guy is unable to be
amazed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For him, the world is what it’s
always been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For us who have been given the gift
of faith and have opened our minds and hearts to the radical realities of our Triune
God, the world changes again this night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dawn brings the power of the love of God, the God we experience in
the community of the church, the God we receive in the Eucharist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s allow ourselves to be amazed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s get going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Let us pray.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_rIxc5J54G4UjIOLIN4XDxv5Z9srBD8iCbnjSOAX7-swTU1iBrp0HDjvKoLt0xRWuzdheEi5K7urBsCdT1WbrokatSp3YNYgAl6pDATlntwz3JUa2OFloofDdmcoN48wefO5A0xUZh-ZyREMzACAqkWUgWPnkF5Udh0HNPzbK63zLUsZuPeA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_rIxc5J54G4UjIOLIN4XDxv5Z9srBD8iCbnjSOAX7-swTU1iBrp0HDjvKoLt0xRWuzdheEi5K7urBsCdT1WbrokatSp3YNYgAl6pDATlntwz3JUa2OFloofDdmcoN48wefO5A0xUZh-ZyREMzACAqkWUgWPnkF5Udh0HNPzbK63zLUsZuPeA" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sábado Santo "... Y Quedaron
Totalmente Asombrados"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hay un viejo chiste sobre un tipo
que pasea por Nueva York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al pasar junto
a una tapa de alcantarilla, de repente se produce una gran explosión bajo
tierra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La tierra tiembla y la tapa de
alcantarilla sale volando por los aires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>El neoyorquino, sin inmutarse lo más mínimo, levanta la vista y observa
el disco de 150 libras que gira, llega a su cúspide y empieza a voltear hacia
abajo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mira atentamente y, sin perder un
instante, pronuncia: "Cara".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nada sorprende a un auténtico neoyorquino.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lo han visto todo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A demasiados de nosotros hoy nos
cuesta asombrarnos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La vida se convierte
en rutina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El matrimonio se siente como
un viejo y cómodo abrigo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nada de lo que
digan nuestros cónyuges puede sorprendernos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Algunos creen que pueden predecir lo que dirá su media naranja antes de
que lo diga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fíjense que no he tomado
partido por cuál es la media naranja, si el marido o la mujer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Después de unos años en una comunidad
jesuita, es aún peor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al menos sólo
tienes que escuchar a tu cónyuge contar las mismas viejas historias una y otra
vez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo vivo con veinte jesuitas que no
paran de contar las mismas viejas historias una y otra vez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y probablemente pueden predecir lo que voy a
decir sobre la mayoría de los temas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y
ciertamente nada de lo que diga les sorprenderá.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Esta tarde hemos escuchado el
Evangelio de Mateo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero echemos un
vistazo a Marcos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marcos tiene un
detalle revelador.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El Evangelio de Marcos
nos dice: "Estaban asombrados".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Esta resurrección es una historia nueva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No se había contado antes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nada,
quiero decir nada, como esto ha sucedido antes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Los discípulos empiezan a darse cuenta de que el crucificado ha
resucitado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Las mujeres son los primeros
testigos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proclaman: ¡El Señor Jesús
vive!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Las esperanzas, defraudadas y
rotas, vuelven a encenderse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Podemos dejarnos sorprender?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Podemos abrir nuestras mentes y nuestros
corazones y dejar entrar la alegre noticia de que lo que le sucede a Jesús nos
sucede a nosotros?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Podemos
creerlo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Lo viviremos?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pero el ángel les dice
inmediatamente: "¡No los asombreen!".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ponganse en marcha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesús
resucitado se dirige a Galilea, la región donde Dios entre nosotros comenzó su
anuncio del nuevo amanecer, el reino de Dios que irrumpe en nuestro tiempo y
espacio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En marcha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es hora de empezar a vivir la forma de vida
que él articuló.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No te asombres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sé asombroso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Empieza a formar el Cuerpo de Cristo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sé el Jesús que vence a la muerte y nos da vida y vida eterna.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sé el Jesús que nos llama a amar a todos,
incluso a nuestros enemigos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ponte en
marcha y construye con Dios el Reino de la verdad y la confianza, la justicia y
la alegría, la paz y la prosperidad, la esperanza y la curación, la fe y la
libertad, el amor y la vida.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Todas las lecturas de esta noche
hablan de la historia de nuestro Dios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Desde las palabras iniciales del Génesis hasta la llamada de Abraham,
pasando por el canto de libertad del Éxodo y las palabras consoladoras de los
profetas Isaías, Baruc y Ezequiel, tenemos un "Top Ten" de lecturas
bíblicas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los Salmos son los grandes
éxitos de Israel, ya que el rey David fue la primera estrella de rock del
mundo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>San Pablo nos recuerda que hemos
muerto con Cristo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y Marcos nos remonta
a los primeros relatos del momento que cambió toda la historia de la humanidad,
la resurrección de Jesús.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dejémonos asombrar por todo
esto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y pongámonos en marcha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seamos asombrosos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vivamos como discípulos de Jesús.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuando veamos el equivalente de tapas de
alcantarilla volteando en el aire como monedas lanzadas por escolares, démonos
cuenta de que algo asombroso y magnífico está sucediendo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuando veamos agua derramada sobre las
cabezas y vidas transformadas para la eternidad, quedémonos atónitos y
asombrados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y entonces, pongámonos en
marcha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dejemos que el Espíritu Santo
vigorice nuestras vidas y nos ponga a hacer las cosas que Dios necesita que
hagamos para que el reino de Dios sea real en nuestras vidas y en las vidas de
nuestros contemporáneos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Cómo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Respondiendo a los heridos, a los que sufren
y a los crucificados en nuestros días.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>La Hna. Linda Stilling, SSND, gran apóstol de la gente de Camden, NJ,
durante más de veinticinco años solía decir: "Tienes que quedarte con la
gente en su dolor, hasta que empieces a sentir la alegría de la
resurrección".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Sábado Santo es el tiempo entre
la cruz y la resurrección.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esperamos la
respuesta de Dios a la crucifixión.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>María Magdalena, María y Salomé responden al horror de su
asesinato.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quieren ungir en oración el
cuerpo de aquel a quien escucharon y llegaron a amar, aquel que esperaban que
fuera el Mesías de Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Encuentran
una tumba vacía y empiezan a darse cuenta de que el Señor de la Vida ha
resucitado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El Señor de la Vida ha
resucitado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Espera, de verdad, el Señor
de la Vida ha resucitado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Este Jesús, su
Rabí y Señor, ha vencido a la muerte.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Empiezan a oír de nuevo las palabras de las bienaventuranzas y las
parábolas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Las enseñanzas de las
bienaventuranzas y de Mateo 25, dar de comer al hambriento, visitar a los
encarcelados, empiezan a sorprenderles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Y se dan cuenta de que es hora de ponerse en marcha, de decirle al mundo
que debemos rezar el Padrenuestro, reconciliarnos con aquellos de los que
estamos distanciados, y tomar nuestra cruz y seguir a Cristo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El gran predicador jesuita John
Kavanaugh, S.J., escribe sobre el Sábado Santo: "Jesús entró en las
profundidades de la muerte, una zambullida que no habría tenido que hacer si no
nos hubiera amado en nuestro lamentable estado. Pero fue a la muerte con un
"sí", con la confianza absoluta de Abraham, la constancia de Moisés,
la brillante confianza de Isaías". En la vigilia pascual, nos sumergimos
con él: "¿No sabéis que los que fuimos bautizados en Cristo Jesús, fuimos
bautizados en su muerte? Siendo semejantes a él por la semejanza a su muerte,
lo seremos también por la semejanza a su resurrección" </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(LA PALABRA COMPROMETIDA:
Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, Nueva York
(1997), pp. 53-55.)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El antiguo cardenal George de
Chicago cuenta una anécdota de cuando estaba en África visitando a sacerdotes
misioneros de su orden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Varios miembros
de tribus africanas entraron en el centro parroquial para conocer a Jesús.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un hombre se negó a entrar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El cardenal George entabló conversación con
él y le preguntó amablemente por qué no quería escuchar las lecciones sobre
Jesús que los demás querían oír.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El
hombre respondió: "He decidido que no tiene sentido cuando miro mi vida:
que Dios nos ame, que Dios se sacrifique por nosotros, que Dios sea más fuerte
que los espíritus que nos hacen daño.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
me lo creo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es demasiado bueno para ser
verdad" (Cardenal Francis George.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La diferencia que marca
Dios. Nueva York, NY: Crossroads. Pp. 259-260)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ese tipo es incapaz de
asombrarse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Para él, el mundo es lo que
siempre ha sido.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Para nosotros, que hemos recibido el
don de la fe y hemos abierto nuestras mentes y nuestros corazones a las
realidades radicales de nuestro Dios Trino, el mundo vuelve a cambiar esta
noche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El amanecer trae el poder del
amor de Dios, el Dios que experimentamos en la comunidad de la Iglesia, el Dios
que recibimos en la Eucaristía.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dejémonos asombrar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pongámonos en
marcha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y recemos.</span></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-42194425213511139892023-04-04T10:45:00.002-04:002023-04-04T10:45:22.911-04:00Holy Week / Semana Santa. We follow a Crucified God<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tYiQGti7QOaywEbMcMUSlqop9pVbY0EOwMyvKV7xrh_8ly9OolHEAFPdNwsktg1WGac0BxgO3gXh4LnLHVNjj32jnZsjQjmplBjIKt49biLkdo1PLWskG_Rdh0qSRlmKitQ9Kv4-jYkO7KgPk2UFU-IiguV_reLPreF35Ub-reFfq2kqx8o/s393/Agony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="393" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tYiQGti7QOaywEbMcMUSlqop9pVbY0EOwMyvKV7xrh_8ly9OolHEAFPdNwsktg1WGac0BxgO3gXh4LnLHVNjj32jnZsjQjmplBjIKt49biLkdo1PLWskG_Rdh0qSRlmKitQ9Kv4-jYkO7KgPk2UFU-IiguV_reLPreF35Ub-reFfq2kqx8o/w278-h183/Agony.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOdYhvL54_HIPexQx0mrtpVQd9OSL3R9v2pvz8bJPnJT2bWTqbWMSu-3W6gAvbUtoPwrW0P4qlbBKHLBC6wQergBOsSqba-5jdJI9QdfXhtkSuamFYJ7AfTGd87S5R3iOhq0N-Sqwg9A0TNl3Qv8PP_WUYsmovgnX-077pyoQR65ZqvOL_G0/s375/Holy%20week.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="375" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOdYhvL54_HIPexQx0mrtpVQd9OSL3R9v2pvz8bJPnJT2bWTqbWMSu-3W6gAvbUtoPwrW0P4qlbBKHLBC6wQergBOsSqba-5jdJI9QdfXhtkSuamFYJ7AfTGd87S5R3iOhq0N-Sqwg9A0TNl3Qv8PP_WUYsmovgnX-077pyoQR65ZqvOL_G0/w169-h116/Holy%20week.jpg" width="169" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF58yPIltukUnWVLvi2BSansJZYwp3WMBsYCoK3nHsNwpV5cGGWw7C6tKIwsaf24awx354gRawPphwuxm17RgU_5nBceHFcgKg81xCE3mJWnoWHTzC19RfTZEpdKyubWnlRcjfSKAGWQNLeAGI3NKzrSKboqj6uiPY4BQ2dobXV3njkXxBcmk/s513/Crosses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="513" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF58yPIltukUnWVLvi2BSansJZYwp3WMBsYCoK3nHsNwpV5cGGWw7C6tKIwsaf24awx354gRawPphwuxm17RgU_5nBceHFcgKg81xCE3mJWnoWHTzC19RfTZEpdKyubWnlRcjfSKAGWQNLeAGI3NKzrSKboqj6uiPY4BQ2dobXV3njkXxBcmk/w219-h114/Crosses.jpg" width="219" /></a><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuRtFgaxoeas7b_jrqptRk_Y_uwL_TTmUiYCdnPm6dnWAgZJHSk8BWBRF4DusTCx_7SYprHzITLABGbQxlPNpAFieHNg47gXL9riZkxoOct3Iajk_219-Q7W7i8EakUjTQeEDE8esqlf9xUSR9YRwDlFnpYyhI843a6eX0QjxV740XaOeSuY/s393/Agony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holy
Week. </span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuRtFgaxoeas7b_jrqptRk_Y_uwL_TTmUiYCdnPm6dnWAgZJHSk8BWBRF4DusTCx_7SYprHzITLABGbQxlPNpAFieHNg47gXL9riZkxoOct3Iajk_219-Q7W7i8EakUjTQeEDE8esqlf9xUSR9YRwDlFnpYyhI843a6eX0QjxV740XaOeSuY/s393/Agony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Jesus: Crucified for All”</span></b></a></div></div><p>
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April 5, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A few years
ago, my sister was surprised to hear me say that <b><span style="color: red;">I
don’t think Jesus knew before his death that he would be resurrected.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hoped he would be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some sense, he trusted totally in God the
Father, that God would love him and care for him no matter what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it wasn’t like Jesus had some
supernatural awareness, some inside information, of what would come from the
cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He went to the cross as a human
being, as a Dead Man Walking, like anyone given a death penalty by the
state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He went to
the cross filled with fear and trembling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He didn’t have some kind of divine guarantee that he’d put in a few
horrific hours on the shameful instrument of Roman terror and torture, and then
be known forever as the savior of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He went to the cross as any of us would, afraid, trembling, worried that
this was all a terrible mistake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The agony in
the garden of Gethsemani reveals a Jesus deeply troubled. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 1.0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He
was I such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of
blood falling on the ground” (Luke 22).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Then he said to them, ‘My soul is sorrowful even to death’ ….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He advanced a little and fell prostrate in
prayer, saying ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me…’ ”
(Matt 26).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are
not the words of a guy who is at peace with what is to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes to the cross out of the conviction
that his prophetically confronting the powers in Jerusalem will in some way
further the reality of God’s kingdom, God’s rule, becoming operative and real
in this world as it is in heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
goes to the cross dimly aware of the power of the sacrifice he is about to become,
the sacrifice he spoke of at the Last Supper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he also has to wrestle with the idea that he may be wrong, or worse,
totally deluded (cf., N.T. Wright, <i>Jesus: The Victory of God</i>, 1996, p.
606). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the third week of the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius has us
contemplate the final days of Jesus</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
hour by hour, moment by moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With our
graced imaginations we are there as Jesus raises bread and wine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see the lashes tear into his flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hear the hammer smash the nails into his
hands and feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hear his final words
as he cries out the first words of Psalm 22, “My God, My God, Why have you
forsaken me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We realize he forgives
those who did this to him, for “they do not know what they do.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gives up his spirit and dies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s not
rush too fast to the resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is no resurrection without the cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
follow a crucified God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should pause
and realize the tremendous, awesome, strangeness of this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our God was murdered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was tortured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His cross becomes the source of our hope, our
salvation, our way to life and life eternal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b><span style="color: red;">We adore you O Christ and we bless you; Because
by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep
Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Semana
Santa. </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Jesús: Crucificado por todos”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>5 de Abril, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hace unos años, mi hermana se
sorprendió al oírme decir que <b><span style="color: red;">no creo que Jesús
supiera antes de su muerte que resucitaría.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Él esperaba que así fuera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En cierto sentido, confiaba plenamente en
Dios Padre, en que Dios le amaría y cuidaría de él pasara lo que pasara.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero no era como si Jesús tuviera una
conciencia sobrenatural, alguna información interna, de lo que vendría de la
cruz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fue a la cruz como un ser humano,
como un muerto viviente, como cualquier persona a la que el Estado impone la
pena de muerte.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fue a la cruz lleno de miedo y
temblor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No tenía ningún tipo de
garantía divina de que pasaría unas horas horribles en el vergonzoso instrumento
del terror y la tortura romanos, y luego sería conocido para siempre como el
salvador del mundo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fue a la cruz como
cualquiera de nosotros, temeroso, tembloroso, preocupado de que todo aquello
fuera un terrible error.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La agonía en el huerto de Getsemaní
revela a un Jesús profundamente turbado. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .7in; margin-right: .7in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Estaba en tal agonía y oraba
con tanto fervor que su sudor era como gotas de sangre que caían al suelo"
(Lucas 22).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Entonces les dijo: 'Mi
alma está triste hasta la muerte' ....<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Avanzó un poco y se postró en oración, diciendo: 'Padre mío, si es
posible, pase de mí este cáliz...' " (Mt 26).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Estas no son las palabras de un
hombre que está en paz con lo que está por venir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Va a la cruz convencido de que su
enfrentamiento profético con los poderes de Jerusalén contribuirá de algún modo
a que el reino de Dios, su gobierno, sea operativo y real en este mundo, como
lo es en el cielo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Va a la cruz
vagamente consciente del poder del sacrificio en el que está a punto de
convertirse, el sacrificio del que habló en la Última Cena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero también tiene que luchar con la idea de
que puede estar equivocado o, peor aún, totalmente engañado (cf., N.T. Wright, <i>Jesus:
The Victory of God</i>, 1996, p. 606). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En la tercera semana de
los Ejercicios Espirituales, San Ignacio nos hace contemplar los últimos días
de Jesús</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, hora a hora, momento a momento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Con nuestra imaginación agraciada estamos
allí mientras Jesús levanta el pan y el vino.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vemos cómo los latigazos desgarran su carne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oímos cómo el martillo le clava los clavos en
las manos y los pies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oímos sus últimas
palabras mientras grita las primeras palabras del Salmo 22: "Dios mío,
Dios mío, ¿por qué me has abandonado?".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nos damos cuenta de que perdona a los que le hicieron esto, porque
"no saben lo que hacen".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Entrega su espíritu y muere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No nos precipitemos hacia la
resurrección.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No hay resurrección sin
cruz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seguimos a un Dios
crucificado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Debemos hacer una pausa y
darnos cuenta de lo tremendo, impresionante y extraño de esto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nuestro Dios fue asesinado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fue torturado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Su cruz se convierte en la fuente de nuestra
esperanza, nuestra salvación, nuestro camino hacia la vida y la vida
eterna.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Te
adoramos, oh Cristo, y te bendecimos; Porque por tu Santa Cruz has redimido al
mundo.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-19925779635529674382023-03-27T08:50:00.007-04:002023-03-27T08:52:15.138-04:00Fifth Sunday of Lent. Jesus raises Lazarus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCaFMIXkUfr-gZoHPuKIY0MLS9Plq025Zox67f9JHVI-IwJe5B7sFp0ddRd7Xu979QgBYL3Hk7dlCWaYf-jQklpYUxPMNlHQmsGameRc86wM55mfwN9GP0GryWaQO-59gu6MqNu35_MoiIAwqIVBPbpoUMXvbHDgQ2FRWnQ9yWuqJj4Ot36E/s458/Lazarus%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="334" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCaFMIXkUfr-gZoHPuKIY0MLS9Plq025Zox67f9JHVI-IwJe5B7sFp0ddRd7Xu979QgBYL3Hk7dlCWaYf-jQklpYUxPMNlHQmsGameRc86wM55mfwN9GP0GryWaQO-59gu6MqNu35_MoiIAwqIVBPbpoUMXvbHDgQ2FRWnQ9yWuqJj4Ot36E/w146-h200/Lazarus%201.jpg" width="146" /></a> <b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCdsRCmORCQj-97MQYbeyVILiSebF6tGItlBbbShXj3EXpAJUrPrCeRSOpG16XVzYF7pRf5hgCBdiaPLxi-h0qtqnzxjb82r5GYSIeka8hDXeE9UacnlS5rB_AOvkG_vvfPSOdu0e0secEq1yZZFULSdHY4lj3JCz8Ov3qOBXC83Pbi4Sw4SA/s322/Lazarus%202.jpg" style="font-size: 16pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="322" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCdsRCmORCQj-97MQYbeyVILiSebF6tGItlBbbShXj3EXpAJUrPrCeRSOpG16XVzYF7pRf5hgCBdiaPLxi-h0qtqnzxjb82r5GYSIeka8hDXeE9UacnlS5rB_AOvkG_vvfPSOdu0e0secEq1yZZFULSdHY4lj3JCz8Ov3qOBXC83Pbi4Sw4SA/w271-h203/Lazarus%202.jpg" width="271" /></a></b></div></b></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5<sup>th</sup>
Week of Lent. </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Lazarus, Come Out”</span></b><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message. March 29, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What do we think about death?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Do we believe that Jesus has power over
death? Do we know deep in our hearts
that Jesus saves us from death? Do we relish
and realize that Jesus will give us eternal life?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many years
ago, as an undergraduate at Lafayette College, in a philosophy course, it
dawned on me: <b><span style="color: red;">either I would someday cease to exist,
or I would continue to live forever.</span></b>
Either I would someday just go poof and not be anymore, or I would be
given the gift of existence forever. Those
are the only options. I choose to
believe the second alternative. It makes
no sense to me to think that whoever causes me to exist will cease keeping me
in existence when this body gives out.
My body replaces all its cells every seven years or so. But I continue to exist. I am not just my body. I am more than my physical existence. My soul perdures. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This question of death hit me hard recently</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. My college roommate
has been diagnosed with brain cancer. I
went up to Philly and visited him 10 days ago.
He’s had one operation and they are also treating the cancer with
radiation. He’s doing OK. His wife and children support him. But there is a very good chance he may not be
with us a year or two from now. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We can say
that of all of us. Who knows if we will
be alive next week, or next year, or ten years from now? The only thing that is certain is that no one
escapes death. We all will die.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That is why
on Ash Wednesday we hear proclaimed “You are dust and to dust you shall
return.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But we don’t
simply stay as dust. We will be given
resurrected bodies and live in “a new heavens and a new earth” in which “every
tear will be wiped away” (cf. Is 25; Rev 21).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the
great promise of our faith. This is the
great hope we have in Christ. This is
the consolation that counters all desolation in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the
memorial acclimation at Mass, we respond to the Real Presence of Jesus in the
Eucharist by saying, <b><span style="color: red;">“Save us savior of the world,
for by your cross and resurrection you have set us free.”</span></b> That is our hope. That is our prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These days
of Lent, let’s ponder the mystery and promise of Christ’s cross. We can go to confession and be forgiven our
sins. We can pray the stations of the
cross. We can meditate on the mysteries
of the Rosary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most of all,
we can be stunned and grateful for the miraculous gifts of life and life
eternal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep
Safe. Keep Sane. Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b><v:shape alt="Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead Painting by Ann Lukesh - Fine Art America" id="Picture_x0020_2410" o:spid="_x0000_i1027" style="height: 135pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 98.4pt;" type="#_x0000_t75">
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Semana de Cuaresma. </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lázaro, Sal Fuera!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.
29 de Marzo, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y
Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Qué pensamos de la muerte?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> ¿Creemos que Jesús tiene poder sobre la
muerte? ¿Sabemos en el fondo de nuestro
corazón que Jesús nos salva de la muerte?
¿Nos alegramos y nos damos cuenta de que Jesús nos dará la vida eterna?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hace muchos
años, cuando estudiaba en Lafayette College, en un curso de filosofía, <b><span style="color: red;">me di cuenta de que o bien algún día dejaba de existir, o
bien seguiría viviendo para siempre.</span></b>
O algún día desaparecería y dejaría de existir, o se me concedería el
don de existir para siempre. Ésas son
las únicas opciones. Elijo creer en la
segunda alternativa. Para mí no tiene
sentido pensar que quienquiera que sea la causa de mi existencia dejará de
mantenerme en ella cuando este cuerpo se agote.
Mi cuerpo reemplaza todas sus células cada siete años
aproximadamente. Pero yo sigo
existiendo. No soy sólo mi cuerpo. Soy más que mi existencia física. Mi alma perdura. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Esta cuestión de la muerte me afectó mucho hace poco.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> A mi compañero de
universidad le han diagnosticado cáncer cerebral. Fui a visitarle a Filadelfia hace 10
días. Le han operado una vez y también
están tratando el cáncer con radiación.
Está bien. Su mujer y sus hijos
le apoyan. Pero hay muchas posibilidades
de que no esté con nosotros dentro de uno o dos años. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Podemos
decir lo mismo de todos nosotros. ¿Quién
sabe si estaremos vivos la semana que viene, o el año que viene, o dentro de
diez años? Lo único cierto es que nadie
escapa a la muerte. Todos moriremos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Por eso el
Miércoles de Ceniza oímos proclamar: "Polvo eres y en polvo te
convertirás".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pero no nos
quedaremos simplemente como polvo.
Recibiremos cuerpos resucitados y viviremos en "un cielo nuevo y
una tierra nueva" en los que "se enjugará toda lágrima" (cf. Is
25; Ap 21).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Esta es la
gran promesa de nuestra fe. Esta es la
gran esperanza que tenemos en Cristo.
Este es el consuelo que contrarresta toda desolación en nuestras vidas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En la
aclamación memorial de la Misa, respondemos a la Presencia Real de Jesús en la
Eucaristía diciendo: <b><span style="color: red;">"Sálvanos salvador del
mundo, porque por tu cruz y resurrección nos has liberado".</span></b> Esa es nuestra esperanza. Esa es nuestra oración.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En estos
días de Cuaresma, reflexionemos sobre el misterio y la promesa de la cruz de
Cristo. Podemos confesarnos y recibir el
perdón de nuestros pecados. Podemos
rezar el Vía Crucis. Podemos meditar los
misterios del Rosario.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sobre todo,
podemos estar atónitos y agradecidos por los dones milagrosos de la vida y la
vida eterna.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro. Sigamos Sano. Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-48006195750873336612023-03-27T08:40:00.002-04:002023-03-27T08:40:51.411-04:004th Week of Lent. Jesus heals a Blind Man<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNsNi3ATgy1sJ_5t3u2sBqosMho7XAkj6A5EKZsy1eIhZBdwvu5BPIAeti0J2T0Wjc-NWwbJcQ1Xk0nXX_HzjFHaR8iJQtqoH39jHQ663URqwidjOqTg5AVzAYciLELpHcoynswm_ku0huZlTStA2tHe6fxFhdZeEH0Od_CZkS67T8X0BkfE/s320/Jesus%20heals%20blind%20man.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNsNi3ATgy1sJ_5t3u2sBqosMho7XAkj6A5EKZsy1eIhZBdwvu5BPIAeti0J2T0Wjc-NWwbJcQ1Xk0nXX_HzjFHaR8iJQtqoH39jHQ663URqwidjOqTg5AVzAYciLELpHcoynswm_ku0huZlTStA2tHe6fxFhdZeEH0Od_CZkS67T8X0BkfE/s1600/Jesus%20heals%20blind%20man.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4<sup>th</sup>
Week of Lent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Blind Man</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>March 22, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do we ever stop and pause and realize what a gift sight is?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just being able to
have eyes that function is miraculous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even the gift of eyeglasses to correct vision is such a marvel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would it be like to not see?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even more,
what is it like to be blind morally or spiritually?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Do we need our
eyes opened to see what God needs us to see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Am I willing to have God call my attention to what I don’t want to see?</span></b><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do I see
what is happening on our Southern border, the desperation of people fleeing
danger and death in Central America only to be met with rejection along the Rio
Grande?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I see the horror, devastation
and sheer insanity of the war Russia is waging against the Ukraine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I see the daily deaths on the streets of
our cities?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I see the death of young
people killed here in Baltimore?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Into all
this world gone mad, into this world of blindness and sin, Jesus bursts with
the message of hope and truth and love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus brings peace to our bruised and battered hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Jesus calls us to
mission, to take up the cross and move out into our world.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bearing our crosses brings resurrection and
transformation not only to us personally, but to the social structures and
political economic systems of our world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By bearing our crosses, we unite ourselves to Christ’s suffering on the
cross and cooperate with the salvation of the world and all her peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Gospel
for the 9<sup>th</sup> chapter of John’s gospel tells of Jesus making mud and
placing it on the blind man’s eyes (this is from where we get the expression,
“Here’s mud in your eye.”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Jesus heals our blindness. </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is also the source of the hymn Amazing
Grace with it’s line, “I was blind but now I see.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enjoy the
amazing Aretha Franklin singing <i>Amazing Grace<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cuarta
Semana de Cuaresma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> El Ciego</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">22</span> de Marzo, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y
Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Nos detenemos alguna vez y nos damos cuenta del don que es la
vista?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>El mero hecho de tener ojos que funcionan es un milagro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Incluso el don de las gafas para corregir la
visión es una maravilla.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Cómo sería no
ver?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Más aún,
¿cómo sería estar ciego moral o espiritualmente?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">¿Necesitamos que
nos abran los ojos para ver lo que Dios necesita que veamos?</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Estoy dispuesto a que Dios me llame la
atención sobre lo que no quiero ver?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Veo lo que
está sucediendo en nuestra frontera sur, la desesperación de la gente que huye
del peligro y la muerte en Centroamérica sólo para encontrarse con el rechazo a
lo largo del Río Grande?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Veo el horror,
la devastación y la pura locura de la guerra que Rusia está librando contra
Ucrania?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Veo las muertes diarias en las
calles de nuestras ciudades?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Veo la
muerte de jóvenes asesinados aquí en Baltimore?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En todo este
mundo enloquecido, en este mundo de ceguera y pecado, Jesús irrumpe con el
mensaje de esperanza, verdad y amor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesús trae paz a nuestros corazones magullados y maltratados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Jesús nos llama a
la misión, a tomar la cruz y salir a nuestro mundo.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Llevar nuestras cruces trae resurrección y
transformación no sólo a nosotros personalmente, sino también a las estructuras
sociales y a los sistemas políticos y económicos de nuestro mundo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al llevar nuestras cruces, nos unimos al
sufrimiento de Cristo en la cruz y cooperamos a la salvación del mundo y de
todos sus pueblos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En el
capítulo 9 del Evangelio de Juan se cuenta que Jesús hizo barro y se lo puso en
los ojos al ciego (de ahí viene la expresión "Aquí tienes barro en el
ojo").<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Jesús
cura nuestra ceguera.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esta es
también la fuente del himno Amazing Grace con su línea, "Estaba ciego pero
ahora veo".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Disfruta de
la increíble Aretha Franklin cantando <i>Amazing Grace</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-18143018602143551652023-03-14T09:36:00.005-04:002023-03-27T08:53:16.515-04:00<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4-9ALDaQTNkrcuy7nw2w9sY-_5-fuEphuOvcteiwaztjl_EhggbWVob6s_KmUPtyIBL_NzmGIFwaMoLBpJ-kHqB3-cPKqtL7d3bdV6bb63-G03sIowIvkYeN9TIhNlzdmKW8_AzIIn474Oz3SmPmUGP3Z1uoFkQccSD9uCx9ohxSYw4Ya3pI/s350/Sam%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="350" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4-9ALDaQTNkrcuy7nw2w9sY-_5-fuEphuOvcteiwaztjl_EhggbWVob6s_KmUPtyIBL_NzmGIFwaMoLBpJ-kHqB3-cPKqtL7d3bdV6bb63-G03sIowIvkYeN9TIhNlzdmKW8_AzIIn474Oz3SmPmUGP3Z1uoFkQccSD9uCx9ohxSYw4Ya3pI/w276-h184/Sam%201.jpg" width="276" /></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvLO_jFq-JYHvHRf5oCQqLcEuBR-gbFHQijt9_KIsfXHnf05mPJYfLREGWGHWPlaTRKxZc7r-VCjsxwrXcMuFVxdVVcxN-VMqbssj30arq3E3LRFmebdd-CxBDAC6jVtui0oJWj32luKfYpYchCETRm-FR5TBbTCXfEx3YiPj7EAToEP5-8o/s528/Sam%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="329" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvLO_jFq-JYHvHRf5oCQqLcEuBR-gbFHQijt9_KIsfXHnf05mPJYfLREGWGHWPlaTRKxZc7r-VCjsxwrXcMuFVxdVVcxN-VMqbssj30arq3E3LRFmebdd-CxBDAC6jVtui0oJWj32luKfYpYchCETRm-FR5TBbTCXfEx3YiPj7EAToEP5-8o/s320/Sam%202.jpg" width="199" /></a></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3<sup>rd</sup>
Week of Lent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Samaritan Woman</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>March 15, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can go
for a long time without food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
without water, we perish in less than 72 hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Water is life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In John’s
Gospel (John 4: 4-38) we hear of a meeting between Jesus and a Samaritan
woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is High Noon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus is tired and dusty from his journey through the hostile territory
of Samaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stops at Jacob’s well, a
place pregnant with meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A place of
contention and religious controversy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus speaks to a Samaritan woman and asks her for a drink of water</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is surprised,
maybe a little fearful, possibly insulted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jewish men did not speak with Samaritan women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Why are you asking me for a drink?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You’re a Jew and I’m a Samaritan.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Where’s your bucket?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus says
to her, “If you knew the gift of God…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God wants to give us gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
wants to give us grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. Thomas
Aquinas says, “Grace is the ability to do what we could not do before.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Samaritan woman is given the grace to
see her entire life in new ways, ways that lead us to freedom and life and life
eternal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus speaks to her of water that brings us new life</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old song <i>The
Lights of the City</i> sings of “A water that brings us new life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we drink, we shall not thirst for more.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Lent we
strip ourselves of all that keeps us from God, that keeps us from being in
communion with God and one another. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During Lent, through our prayer, fasting and
almsgiving, we can ask God for graces, the gifts of transformation and change
we need in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the Samaritan
woman, we will proclaim to others all that God does for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Lights of the City</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> sings of the transformation we so
deeply desire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg--MLCPIluTVQKjyWNvmKVTsA6Kf7aGy-ChsAmswbqpX2a8M-lHEOTl8Q57U8KMWZzyxc6qdfycY88G6R9w81UP42b0WeeREAEkm8VE0PWArU4gtEVOX3qvmYM_sMqp1HuRCAPXS1eKZXbBw3ftw1UZBSjjMgPDaqs7bMdY--upYwJFPqnwJI/s280/Lights%20of%20City.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="280" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg--MLCPIluTVQKjyWNvmKVTsA6Kf7aGy-ChsAmswbqpX2a8M-lHEOTl8Q57U8KMWZzyxc6qdfycY88G6R9w81UP42b0WeeREAEkm8VE0PWArU4gtEVOX3qvmYM_sMqp1HuRCAPXS1eKZXbBw3ftw1UZBSjjMgPDaqs7bMdY--upYwJFPqnwJI/s1600/Lights%20of%20City.png" width="280" /></a></div><p></p>
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Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBkQ_se4zXGuXtMDt_cv2Czn2IWqkGcFKp5Q4QAC7AZ3LlwzXDEndqCgpO1YIITSr_-UkreUnKNaNtI3CmAjKWwooUUUEKE7bF-qzlTSxeoOEQI4nnZnTI-cI0aSnyO5AT4tkER1Qw_vreIOdjbsSCPqbcwKZYehSyY2S-x17mqbI2sIHWbZk/s350/Sam%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="350" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBkQ_se4zXGuXtMDt_cv2Czn2IWqkGcFKp5Q4QAC7AZ3LlwzXDEndqCgpO1YIITSr_-UkreUnKNaNtI3CmAjKWwooUUUEKE7bF-qzlTSxeoOEQI4nnZnTI-cI0aSnyO5AT4tkER1Qw_vreIOdjbsSCPqbcwKZYehSyY2S-x17mqbI2sIHWbZk/s320/Sam%201.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-lE8EkG5qiS16tBBKkEbmJUc4CgCE71j7z7_ZBEchjF5obgVbKpW6hu1NFXUna2rCrzBJqcl5qe5V283vswcrA3pk1KLbSTK1rSs9IRD4T3bBXKYm5HAqKYfHY7RivCnJhL2iBnqg4px6d-jh2NJlYkracERnyd_SYOSQx1DXhQNt2NkTJj0/s528/Sam%202.jpg" style="font-size: 16pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="329" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-lE8EkG5qiS16tBBKkEbmJUc4CgCE71j7z7_ZBEchjF5obgVbKpW6hu1NFXUna2rCrzBJqcl5qe5V283vswcrA3pk1KLbSTK1rSs9IRD4T3bBXKYm5HAqKYfHY7RivCnJhL2iBnqg4px6d-jh2NJlYkracERnyd_SYOSQx1DXhQNt2NkTJj0/w153-h246/Sam%202.jpg" width="153" /></a> <v:shape alt="Samaritan woman well hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy" id="Picture_x0020_2404" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" style="height: 156pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 97.2pt;" type="#_x0000_t75">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tercera
Semana de Cuaresma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>La Mujer Samaritana<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">15 de Marzo, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y
Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Se puede
estar mucho tiempo sin comer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero sin
agua, perecemos en menos de 72 horas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El
agua es vida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En el
Evangelio de Juan (Juan 4: 4-38) se nos habla de un encuentro entre Jesús y una
mujer samaritana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es mediodía.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hace calor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesús está cansado y polvoriento de su viaje por el territorio hostil de
Samaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Se detiene en el pozo de Jacob,
un lugar cargado de significado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un
lugar de disputa y controversia religiosa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesús habla con una mujer samaritana y le pide un vaso de agua</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ella se sorprende,
tal vez un poco asustada, posiblemente insultada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los hombres judíos no hablaban con mujeres
samaritanas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ella tiene preguntas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"¿Por qué me pides de beber?".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Tú eres judío y yo
samaritana".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"¿Dónde está tu
cubo?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesús le
dice: "Si conocieras el don de Dios...".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dios quiere darnos dones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dios quiere darnos gracia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Santo Tomás de Aquino dice: "La gracia
es la capacidad de hacer lo que antes no podíamos".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A esta samaritana se le da la gracia de ver
toda su vida de formas nuevas, formas que nos llevan a la libertad y a la vida
y a la vida eterna.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesús le habla del agua que nos trae nueva vida.</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La vieja canción <i>Las luces de la ciudad</i> canta:
"Un agua que nos trae nueva vida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cuando bebamos, no tendremos más sed".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En esta
Cuaresma nos despojamos de todo lo que nos aleja de Dios, lo que nos impide
estar en comunión con Dios y con los demás.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Durante la Cuaresma, a través de nuestra oración, ayuno y limosna,
podemos pedir a Dios gracias, los dones de transformación y cambio que
necesitamos en nuestras vidas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Como la
samaritana, proclamaremos a los demás todo lo que Dios hace por nosotros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Las
Luces de la Ciudad</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> canta a la transformación que tan
profundamente deseamos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg--MLCPIluTVQKjyWNvmKVTsA6Kf7aGy-ChsAmswbqpX2a8M-lHEOTl8Q57U8KMWZzyxc6qdfycY88G6R9w81UP42b0WeeREAEkm8VE0PWArU4gtEVOX3qvmYM_sMqp1HuRCAPXS1eKZXbBw3ftw1UZBSjjMgPDaqs7bMdY--upYwJFPqnwJI/s280/Lights%20of%20City.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="280" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg--MLCPIluTVQKjyWNvmKVTsA6Kf7aGy-ChsAmswbqpX2a8M-lHEOTl8Q57U8KMWZzyxc6qdfycY88G6R9w81UP42b0WeeREAEkm8VE0PWArU4gtEVOX3qvmYM_sMqp1HuRCAPXS1eKZXbBw3ftw1UZBSjjMgPDaqs7bMdY--upYwJFPqnwJI/s1600/Lights%20of%20City.png" width="280" /></a></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><v:shape alt="A person playing a guitar on a stage
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfNWTmxQRg"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfNWTmxQRg</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-34430630675979229502023-03-14T09:26:00.002-04:002023-03-14T09:27:35.938-04:00Second Week of Lent<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg33zs_zwsArjs6i1oLaC0o1Vf7FD7JmukrYUCPK-fHYXAURc0Np-0BvfzY3FUNbhVIcm7YTVTJOgecFi1TCy6vQfu1jhJiXJUQ3R-UXizt6eHiKjq7Wk3lcp6W4ZFWGjJneOMHCcEFS5AwDAnWDlGrcBFbTCjR7GgkOmUUjr3Q5ZDLr4BLIqw/s827/Transfig%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="827" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg33zs_zwsArjs6i1oLaC0o1Vf7FD7JmukrYUCPK-fHYXAURc0Np-0BvfzY3FUNbhVIcm7YTVTJOgecFi1TCy6vQfu1jhJiXJUQ3R-UXizt6eHiKjq7Wk3lcp6W4ZFWGjJneOMHCcEFS5AwDAnWDlGrcBFbTCjR7GgkOmUUjr3Q5ZDLr4BLIqw/w248-h165/Transfig%201.jpg" width="248" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgimuUzlguEYjdFq5XwkA3xrDGMFmPEuJSzuFX10Yka8LT0OZ8BVx13VP9-hU5zMNTHKPYgL7R9HLIA3AkBQ_A1eVU7OiVMnutV92xvQYe1jobb_v33EPuVY6YqZ_P2hAqfR4jONL4nz_838DtYt0damGD0WZcGbhTcIku7_cy4dZlEqDtzRgs/s551/Be%20Change.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="551" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgimuUzlguEYjdFq5XwkA3xrDGMFmPEuJSzuFX10Yka8LT0OZ8BVx13VP9-hU5zMNTHKPYgL7R9HLIA3AkBQ_A1eVU7OiVMnutV92xvQYe1jobb_v33EPuVY6YqZ_P2hAqfR4jONL4nz_838DtYt0damGD0WZcGbhTcIku7_cy4dZlEqDtzRgs/w169-h169/Be%20Change.jpg" width="169" /></a><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2<sup>nd</sup>
Week of Lent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transfiguration</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>March 8, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Could you
imagine a political candidate being visited by George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln and being told he or she is the chosen one?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or Martin Luther King, Jr., having Harriet
Tubman and Frederick Douglas communicate God’s pleasure with his work on behalf
of Civil Rights?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or maybe just an
experience of an ancestor who communicates to us that we are on the right track
in discipling a recalcitrant teenager?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is
something like what happened to Jesus on the mountain when Moses and Elijah
appeared to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were giving
confirmation about what Jesus was doing in his ministry of preaching and
healing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus knew now that this all
was heading toward confrontation with the religious and political authorities
of his day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew the cross was
coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he warned his disciples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter, James
and John were confirmed and strengthened in their commitment to Jesus and one
another as they heard the voice from the cloud proclaim, <b><span style="color: red;">This is my Beloved Son with whom I am well pleased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to him!</span></b> (Matthew 17:5).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The transfiguration lets us know that we too are beloved daughters
and sons of God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We, like Peter and James and John are called to follow Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are called to carry the crosses of our
days and trust in resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are
called to listen to Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is Jesus
saying to us these days of Lent?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
is inviting us to pray</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To cry out to God for those suffering in the
Ukraine war; for those suffering on our southern border, La Frontera; for those
suffering in the aftermath of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria; for those
suffering in places in the USA that are recovering from the drastic effects of
climate change’s destructive weather; for those suffering violence in our
cities and streets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
is inviting us to give alms</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, to send
assistance to those in dire straits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
is inviting us to fast,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to refrain
from what fills us with inconsequential thoughts and feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We fast in order to make space in our minds
and hearts and souls for the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, leading us to
carry the cross like Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our bearing
the cross cooperates with Jesus in his saving our world from all despair,
destruction, and death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Lent we
once again prepare for Holy Week and Easter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let us listen to Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep
Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjp1URlAK-bAWG0VxoNhZm0gkYA09gP2D647C1iaf1rDxGadfDvvzHJgt0Kofcu6SXLUZu8hC3W8KX6T24n2ZF1seRe8kTL2h2u_cb61-r8gW7rHdip_u5xUMccsy_ozF7iGkzZbGtqb0yW4Bt48pYkKn4cUgW9CAnSt_tYpH807OKSGoXb68/s827/Transfig%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="827" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjp1URlAK-bAWG0VxoNhZm0gkYA09gP2D647C1iaf1rDxGadfDvvzHJgt0Kofcu6SXLUZu8hC3W8KX6T24n2ZF1seRe8kTL2h2u_cb61-r8gW7rHdip_u5xUMccsy_ozF7iGkzZbGtqb0yW4Bt48pYkKn4cUgW9CAnSt_tYpH807OKSGoXb68/w402-h266/Transfig%201.jpg" width="402" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Segunda
Semana de Cuaresma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transfiguración<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8 de Marzo, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y
Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Se imagina que un candidato político
recibiera la visita de George Washington y Abraham Lincoln y le dijeran que es
el elegido?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿O que a Martin Luther King,
Jr. Harriet Tubman y Frederick Douglas le comunicasen el agrado de Dios por su
labor en favor de los derechos civiles?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>¿O tal vez la experiencia de un antepasado que nos comunica que vamos
por buen camino al discipular a un adolescente recalcitrante?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Es algo parecido a lo que le ocurrió a Jesús
en la montaña cuando se le aparecieron Moisés y Elías.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Estaban confirmando lo que Jesús estaba
haciendo en su ministerio de predicación y curación.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesús sabía ahora que todo esto se encaminaba
hacia la confrontación con las autoridades religiosas y políticas de su
tiempo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sabía que se acercaba la
cruz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y advirtió a sus discípulos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pedro, Santiago y Juan fueron confirmados y
fortalecidos en su compromiso con Jesús y entre ellos cuando oyeron la voz de
la nube que proclamaba: </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Este
es mi Hijo, el Amado; este es mi Elijido.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>¡Escuchenleo!</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Mateo 17:5).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La transfiguración nos hace saber que también
nosotros somos hijas e hijos amados de Dios</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nosotros, como Pedro,
Santiago y Juan, estamos llamados a seguir a Jesús.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Estamos llamados a cargar con las cruces de
nuestros días y a confiar en la resurrección.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Estamos llamados a escuchar a Jesús.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Qué nos está diciendo Jesús estos días de
cuaresma?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nos invita a rezar.</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
clamar a Dios por los que sufren en la guerra de Ucrania; por los que sufren en
nuestra frontera sur, La Frontera; por los que sufren tras los terremotos de
Turquía y Siria; por los que sufren en lugares de Estados Unidos que se
recuperan de los drásticos efectos destructivos del cambio climático; por los
que sufren la violencia en nuestras ciudades y calles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nos invita a dar limosna</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, a enviar ayuda a quienes se encuentran en
una situación desesperada.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nos invita a ayunar</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, a abstenernos de lo que nos llena de
pensamientos y sentimientos intrascendentes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ayunamos para dejar espacio en nuestras mentes, corazones y almas a la
inspiración del Espíritu Santo, que nos lleva a llevar la cruz como Jesús.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nuestro llevar la cruz coopera con Jesús en
su salvación de nuestro mundo de toda desesperación, destrucción, y
muerte.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En esta Cuaresma nos preparamos de nuevo para
la Semana Santa y la Pascua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Escuchemos
a Jesús.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-49315987898161018222023-02-27T09:08:00.003-05:002023-02-27T09:11:56.973-05:00First Week of Lent: Temptations<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3y93sjhnYcOYOjLCuLc2daH9PY2ZRxRU-K9uFkqoOwR-n998fbxQgFVQzkrPGSChOAfZfYi3YJC1mdo2ZDIwyDH8_K9rLkqh-bJqGjnnvFoTgXKMiJcYQnxtiQkEpSZhe_GCQ143x7qZJ_l1eSJZD5bdupAnP7mYfQhmR9dyZM47flWod7zc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="618" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3y93sjhnYcOYOjLCuLc2daH9PY2ZRxRU-K9uFkqoOwR-n998fbxQgFVQzkrPGSChOAfZfYi3YJC1mdo2ZDIwyDH8_K9rLkqh-bJqGjnnvFoTgXKMiJcYQnxtiQkEpSZhe_GCQ143x7qZJ_l1eSJZD5bdupAnP7mYfQhmR9dyZM47flWod7zc=w232-h100" width="232" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHZ52Ne3zwZgtC_X6mzT_S5N08gjCFNixWrc19UUUCSRvgcudzAaB0FtiU3zAsZ0VdGCIHbWWvpAFts9VI19MY5t6rNjg3U7VDteCEumAMewxilXkJNV5nSC6Qluvt65SWDLV5FhAMI2k8rxWGRXpaWsYfFNKw2UIEG8kx0NqS620Bm098Cbg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="394" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHZ52Ne3zwZgtC_X6mzT_S5N08gjCFNixWrc19UUUCSRvgcudzAaB0FtiU3zAsZ0VdGCIHbWWvpAFts9VI19MY5t6rNjg3U7VDteCEumAMewxilXkJNV5nSC6Qluvt65SWDLV5FhAMI2k8rxWGRXpaWsYfFNKw2UIEG8kx0NqS620Bm098Cbg=w151-h101" width="151" /></a><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1<sup>st</sup>
Week of Lent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Temptations</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>March 1, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The First
Sunday of Lent we heard of Jesus being tempted by the devil (Matt 4:11).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IF, if, if… If you are the Son of God…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You’re hungry! Turn these stone into
bread!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Throw yourself down. The angels
will save you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Worship me and I’ll
give you all the power in the world!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The temptations are to pleasure, possessions, and power</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same
temptations that can bedevil us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want
to eat too much, to smoke and drink too much, to gamble too much, to do things
we know are bad for us and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
are tempted to think that our happiness consists in getting a new set of
clothes, or a car, or a better house, or … on and on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can think things, not people, will help us
be content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We think that if someone
else would do this or that we would be happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If our boss, or spouse, or someone else would just stop doing that or
would begin doing something… Then we would be at peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the fact is that nothing outside us can
make us happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to find courage
and peace and contentment in our hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the deep
worry and fear… If, if if…. if we are beloved daughters and sons of God…. Do we
really believe it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do we really trust
that God loves us, that God sees us through the trials and tribulations of
life?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ways to know God, ways to peace and contentment, are in the practices
of Lent.</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
prayer</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, we realize again that God loves
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>In fasting</b>, we realize we
don’t need what was superficially think we want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>In almsgiving</b>, we realize that there
are so many who need our help, in ways large and small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of us can do everything, but all of us
can do something to help those in need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And the difference between doing something and nothing is monumental
indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pope Francis provides 10 tips for Lent.</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well worth taking a look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><a href="https://aleteia.org/2023/02/22/pope-francis-10-suggestions-for-lent/"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://aleteia.org/2023/02/22/pope-francis-10-suggestions-for-lent/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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blessed, prayerful and transformative Lenten season as we prepare for the
Triduum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep
Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3y93sjhnYcOYOjLCuLc2daH9PY2ZRxRU-K9uFkqoOwR-n998fbxQgFVQzkrPGSChOAfZfYi3YJC1mdo2ZDIwyDH8_K9rLkqh-bJqGjnnvFoTgXKMiJcYQnxtiQkEpSZhe_GCQ143x7qZJ_l1eSJZD5bdupAnP7mYfQhmR9dyZM47flWod7zc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="618" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3y93sjhnYcOYOjLCuLc2daH9PY2ZRxRU-K9uFkqoOwR-n998fbxQgFVQzkrPGSChOAfZfYi3YJC1mdo2ZDIwyDH8_K9rLkqh-bJqGjnnvFoTgXKMiJcYQnxtiQkEpSZhe_GCQ143x7qZJ_l1eSJZD5bdupAnP7mYfQhmR9dyZM47flWod7zc=w315-h135" width="315" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><v:shape alt="40: The Temptation of Christ (2020) - IMDb" id="Picture_x0020_2395" o:spid="_x0000_i1027" style="height: 111.5pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 261.5pt;" type="#_x0000_t75">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Primer
Semana de Cuaresma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tentaciones<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1 de Marzo, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y
Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El primer domingo de Cuaresma oímos hablar de
Jesús tentado por el diablo (Mt 4,11).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>SI, si, si... Si eres el Hijo de Dios... "¡Tienes hambre! Convierte
esta piedra en pan!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Tírate
al suelo. Los ángeles te salvarán".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"¡Adorame y te daré todo el poder del mundo!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Las tentaciones son el placer, las posesiones y el
poder. </span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Las mismas tentaciones que pueden
atormentarnos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Queremos comer demasiado,
fumar y beber demasiado, apostar demasiado, hacer cosas que sabemos que son
malas para nosotros y para los demás.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tenemos la tentación de pensar que nuestra felicidad consiste en
conseguir un nuevo conjunto de ropa, o un coche, o una casa mejor, o ... y así
sucesivamente.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Podemos pensar que las
cosas, y no las personas, nos ayudarán a estar contentos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pensamos que si otra persona hiciera esto o
aquello seríamos felices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Si nuestro
jefe, o nuestro cónyuge, o cualquier otra persona dejara de hacer eso o
empezara a hacer algo... Entonces estaríamos en paz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero lo cierto es que nada fuera de nosotros
puede hacernos felices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Necesitamos
encontrar valor, paz y satisfacción en nuestros corazones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Cómo?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Y la profunda preocupación y el miedo... Si,
si.... si somos hijas e hijos amados de Dios.... ¿Realmente lo creemos?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Confiamos realmente en que Dios nos ama, en
que Dios nos ve a través de las pruebas y tribulaciones de la vida?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Los caminos para conocer a Dios, los caminos hacia
la paz y la satisfacción, están en las prácticas de la Cuaresma</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>En
la oración</b>, volvemos a darnos cuenta de que Dios nos ama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>En el ayuno</b>, nos damos cuenta de que
no necesitamos lo que superficialmente pensamos que queremos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>En la limosna</b>, nos damos cuenta de que
hay tantos que necesitan nuestra ayuda, en formas grandes y pequeñas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ninguno de nosotros puede hacerlo todo, pero
todos podemos hacer algo para ayudar a los necesitados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y la diferencia entre hacer algo y no hacer
nada es realmente monumental.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Papa Francisco ofrece 10 consejos para la
Cuaresma.</span></b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Merece la pena echarle un vistazo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://aleteia.org/2023/02/22/pope-francis-10-suggestions-for-lent/"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://aleteia.org/2023/02/22/pope-francis-10-suggestions-for-lent/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="color: #202124;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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lleno de oración y transformador mientras nos preparamos para el Triduo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></p><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-79479825136094706952023-02-22T13:49:00.006-05:002023-02-22T13:49:32.995-05:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUp8aAVjTOXh8Nt_hfTG2_UNfeak-4DsHQmJex1UtjkRdKEvLZHJ5kpgBt9kbSFjc5cTYSa6qoaJTxdReqJAjWSYop9rJIB_AuGG37SJSn0nVN3gjaMIdj0SgJY3vwi8joyJ5irZRTLM2-u5YaCPcfaTUj4kwEhCz9M8xRYIl83d2mss7VZ9E/s266/Lent%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="266" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUp8aAVjTOXh8Nt_hfTG2_UNfeak-4DsHQmJex1UtjkRdKEvLZHJ5kpgBt9kbSFjc5cTYSa6qoaJTxdReqJAjWSYop9rJIB_AuGG37SJSn0nVN3gjaMIdj0SgJY3vwi8joyJ5irZRTLM2-u5YaCPcfaTUj4kwEhCz9M8xRYIl83d2mss7VZ9E/w215-h150/Lent%201.jpg" width="215" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivSwjZD7ioj3ljAevRQtgPZ2xpxrtw3nET8k9GxEOchKmpb_tS3H68-4UBrc0gxG4RSitulFMywZhPqFI4zSg__H-1GaC2kvw9XhdVGKW56rNHnWdjwpX7ghuqFdolQysp_otabmJ9FZ244bffrGScskFwn_zSnEiSfIuxxnKhGJieDl-4_kk/s285/Lent%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="285" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivSwjZD7ioj3ljAevRQtgPZ2xpxrtw3nET8k9GxEOchKmpb_tS3H68-4UBrc0gxG4RSitulFMywZhPqFI4zSg__H-1GaC2kvw9XhdVGKW56rNHnWdjwpX7ghuqFdolQysp_otabmJ9FZ244bffrGScskFwn_zSnEiSfIuxxnKhGJieDl-4_kk/w231-h154/Lent%202.jpg" width="231" /></a><br /><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ash Wednesday </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feb 22, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today we once again enter into the season of Lent, a time of
spiritual renewal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through prayer,
fasting and alms giving, we open ourselves up to transformation in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This year, we begin with heavy hearts</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The unending stream of incidents of police
brutality ending in the deaths of young black men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The war of Russian aggression against
Ukraine, which is costing the world so much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Billions upon billions are wasted on war as people across the globe lack
food, housing, education, and medical care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The immigration policies on the southern border of the USA leave
thousands of refugees from terror in Central America stranded with nothing but
the clothes on their backs and nowhere to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And over 50,000 killed by earthquakes in Turkey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A never-ending litany of devastation, destruction,
and death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We desperately need a savior these days</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who will see us through these difficult
times?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can provide the consolation
and courage we need to survive difficult days and meet the challenges of our
times?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus comes to save us.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he saves
us by setting his face to go to Jerusalem (Luke 9:51) to confront the political
and religious powers of oppression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He saves
us by accepting death on a cross (Philippians 2:8).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus enters into the suffering and sin of
the world to overcome death with the reality of the resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must know there is no resurrection without the
cross, which means there is no cross that does not contain within it the seeds
of resurrection</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As we enter into these days of prayer and reflection, let’s
ask God to help us bear the crosses laid upon us in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let our prayer provide strength.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our fasting, wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And our almsgiving help and hope to those in
need. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Listen to the beautiful song, Ashes.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We rise again from Ashes, from the good we’ve
failed to do; We rise again from ashes, to create ourselves anew.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Then rise again from ashes, let healing come
to pain.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM183WLwkUNT3dbjKqxDF7YSDAj4VOe7Eo5Pd5G9lHuBzrx1NVXmgkJhl_OLDA8rJOijqtt7Q30ixfHs2H0lK2Mj_hQQ1D4jLiT4ykaEgFuss8SU4ugXWozC40KSiPnByWtO7DlkA7djOwXPfKVnasX1LwWHo7vfCwQpDje8ABZ6SI3hBe9uU/s125/Ashes%20song.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="125" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM183WLwkUNT3dbjKqxDF7YSDAj4VOe7Eo5Pd5G9lHuBzrx1NVXmgkJhl_OLDA8rJOijqtt7Q30ixfHs2H0lK2Mj_hQQ1D4jLiT4ykaEgFuss8SU4ugXWozC40KSiPnByWtO7DlkA7djOwXPfKVnasX1LwWHo7vfCwQpDje8ABZ6SI3hBe9uU/w173-h97/Ashes%20song.png" width="173" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJvOejpJltA"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: blue;">Ashes by Tom Conry | Hymn for Ash
Wednesday & Lent | Choir with Lyrics | Sunday 7pm Choir - YouTube</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Miércoles de Ceniza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.22
de Febrero, 2023</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hoy entramos de nuevo en el tiempo de Cuaresma, un tiempo de
renovación espiritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mediante la
oración, el ayuno y la limosna, nos abrimos a la transformación en Cristo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Este año, comenzamos con el corazón encogido</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El incesante flujo de incidentes de
brutalidad policial que acaban con la muerte de jóvenes negros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La guerra de agresión rusa contra Ucrania,
que tanto está costando al mundo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miles
y miles de millones se malgastan en la guerra mientras la gente en todo el
mundo carece de alimentos, vivienda, educación y atención médica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Las políticas de inmigración en la frontera
sur de los EE.UU. dejan a miles de refugiados del terror en América Central
varados sin nada más que la ropa que llevan puesta y sin ningún lugar adonde
ir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y más de 50.000 muertos por los
terremotos en Turquía.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Una letanía
interminable de devastación, destrucción y muerte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Estos días necesitamos desesperadamente un
salvador</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Quién nos
acompañará en estos tiempos difíciles?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>¿Qué puede proporcionarnos el consuelo y el valor que necesitamos para
sobrevivir a los días difíciles y afrontar los retos de nuestro tiempo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesús viene a salvarnos</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y nos salva poniendo su rostro para ir a
Jerusalén (Lucas 9:51) a enfrentarse a los poderes políticos y religiosos de la
opresión.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nos salva aceptando la muerte
de cruz (Filipenses 2:8).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesús entra en
el sufrimiento y el pecado del mundo para vencer a la muerte con la realidad de
la resurrección.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Debemos saber que no hay resurrección sin cruz, lo
que significa que no hay cruz que no contenga en su interior las semillas de la
resurrección.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Al adentrarnos en estos días de oración y reflexión, pidamos
a Dios que nos ayude a soportar las cruces que nos impone la vida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Que nuestra oración nos dé fuerza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nuestro ayuno, sabiduría.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y nuestra limosna, ayuda y esperanza a los
necesitados. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Escuchen la hermosa canción "Cenizas".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"<i>Resurgimos de las cenizas, del bien
que hemos dejado de hacer; Resurgimos de las cenizas, para crearnos de
nuevo".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Entonces resurge de
las cenizas, que la curación llegue al dolor".</i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM183WLwkUNT3dbjKqxDF7YSDAj4VOe7Eo5Pd5G9lHuBzrx1NVXmgkJhl_OLDA8rJOijqtt7Q30ixfHs2H0lK2Mj_hQQ1D4jLiT4ykaEgFuss8SU4ugXWozC40KSiPnByWtO7DlkA7djOwXPfKVnasX1LwWHo7vfCwQpDje8ABZ6SI3hBe9uU/s125/Ashes%20song.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="125" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM183WLwkUNT3dbjKqxDF7YSDAj4VOe7Eo5Pd5G9lHuBzrx1NVXmgkJhl_OLDA8rJOijqtt7Q30ixfHs2H0lK2Mj_hQQ1D4jLiT4ykaEgFuss8SU4ugXWozC40KSiPnByWtO7DlkA7djOwXPfKVnasX1LwWHo7vfCwQpDje8ABZ6SI3hBe9uU/w173-h97/Ashes%20song.png" width="173" /></a></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJvOejpJltA"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: blue;">Ashes by Tom Conry | Hymn for Ash
Wednesday & Lent | Choir with Lyrics | Sunday 7pm Choir - YouTube</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La
Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P.
Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-9086459822711600782023-02-14T09:59:00.005-05:002023-02-14T09:59:42.182-05:00<p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjytD7uEX5affTuXpGc29QFaqQNz4vN2LDUZSm9HJ_HYjvvZgWawIyxKMPxixekK3brtctATkNMaDZjzH6G1pOHOEttHQWldy6k_LvFeDyqq0Zc8-iGOKeC1_Yv7nrRmDKoilt2vgdoBviYUBTbUyqat0-2RYwFZtxRZJGFDMlzHNRCCyOgqRU/s347/BHM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="135" data-original-width="347" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjytD7uEX5affTuXpGc29QFaqQNz4vN2LDUZSm9HJ_HYjvvZgWawIyxKMPxixekK3brtctATkNMaDZjzH6G1pOHOEttHQWldy6k_LvFeDyqq0Zc8-iGOKeC1_Yv7nrRmDKoilt2vgdoBviYUBTbUyqat0-2RYwFZtxRZJGFDMlzHNRCCyOgqRU/w268-h104/BHM.jpg" width="268" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0ypoa0q_wUD2Z01QsvbaS_IU0Vl5gOR9LMslqcLGhn3qfADl9qQWTCP3AyBU5Wq2X75rnh8Aacu6etfPNbzLpPnYh7kvM0arh3fu0gX-nYA1xXGX9F6tO6p5CQI-dDegDe_z1-KorP3NDFYeJAlZTpnmYc7QtMn7tHxdZyHRZS0h1Is_5PM/s284/MLK%20card.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="284" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0ypoa0q_wUD2Z01QsvbaS_IU0Vl5gOR9LMslqcLGhn3qfADl9qQWTCP3AyBU5Wq2X75rnh8Aacu6etfPNbzLpPnYh7kvM0arh3fu0gX-nYA1xXGX9F6tO6p5CQI-dDegDe_z1-KorP3NDFYeJAlZTpnmYc7QtMn7tHxdZyHRZS0h1Is_5PM/w178-h100/MLK%20card.jpg" width="178" /></a></div></div>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Love
is the greatest force in the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. He who loves is a participant
in the being of God”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feb 15, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here we are mid-February.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We continue to celebrate Black History Month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also enjoy Valentine’s Day (or feel
pressed upon by Hallmark’s marketing of the day…).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we continue to hear Jesus’ Sermon on the
Mount at Mass these Sundays.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> had much in
common, most importantly their challenge to us all to love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to <span style="color: red;">love even our
enemies</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Love is the heartbeat
of the moral cosmos,” said King, and Jesus says, “</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You have heard that it
was said, <em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. </span></em>But
I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you
may be children of your heavenly Father” (Matthew 5:44)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Love of those we love is challenging enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Love our enemies?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Is this realistic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very realistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is as real as the
Civil Rights Movement whose nonviolent, active resistance of racism did so much
to transform the United States of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is as real as the movement Gandhi led in India that so changed that
nation and liberated millions from colonial oppression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Love of enemies is a real as a woman I knew in Camden, NJ.</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her 13-year daughter Shaline was brutally
murdered one hot, August day by a stranger who had no motive for killing the
child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such murders are hard to solve,
but Camden police never let it go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Several years after the killing, the murderer was brought to
Justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lourdes, Shaline’s mother, let
it be known that she did not want the death penalty for the murderer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It won’t bring my baby girl back,” she said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wanted him put away for life so that he
could not harm any other people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she
forgave him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her forgiveness helped heal
a bit of the pain and agony that threatened Lourdes’s own spiritual and mental well-being.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Love of enemies is a real as those who forgave the sick,
warped, hate filled, white supremacist who killed nine beautiful people at a
Bible study in Charleston, SC, June 2015.</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day the killer was brought before the
court, CNN broadcast live the words of forgiveness offered by family members of
the victims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/19/i-forgive-you-relatives-of-charleston-church-victims-address-dylann-roof/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Washington Post reported</span></b></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">
the extraordinarily poignant and powerful expression of Christian
forgiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The relatives of people slain inside the historic African
American church in Charleston, S.C., earlier this week were able to speak
directly to the accused gunman Friday at his first court appearance. One by
one, those who chose to speak at a bond hearing did not turn to anger. Instead,
while he remained impassive, they offered him forgiveness and said they were
praying for his soul, even as they described the pain of their losses. “I
forgive you,” Nadine Collier, the daughter of 70-year-old Ethel Lance, said at
the hearing, her voice breaking with emotion. “You took something very precious
from me. I will never talk to her again. I will never, ever hold her again. But
I forgive you. And have mercy on your soul.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Valentine’s Day</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, let’s
practice transformative love, love even for those who do us wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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el latido del cosmos moral. Quien ama participa del ser de Dios" - Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy,
S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 de Febrero, 2023</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ya estamos a mediados de febrero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seguimos celebrando el Mes de la Historia
Negra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>También disfrutamos del Día de
San Valentín (o nos sentimos presionados por el marketing de Hallmark de este día...).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y seguimos escuchando el Sermón de la Montaña
de Jesús en la Misa de estos domingos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El reverendo Martin Luther King, Jr. y Jesús </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tenían mucho
en común, sobre todo su desafío a todos nosotros de amar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Y a amar incluso a
nuestros enemigos.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"El amor
es el latido del cosmos moral", dijo King, y Jesús dice: "Habéis oído
que se dijo: Amarás a tu prójimo y odiarás a tu enemigo. Pero yo os digo: Amad
a vuestros enemigos y orad por los que os persiguen, para que seáis hijos de
vuestro Padre celestial" (Mateo 5:44).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amar a los que amamos ya es un reto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;">¿Amar a nuestros
enemigos?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vamos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Es realista?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yo digo que sí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muy realista</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es tan real como el Movimiento por los
Derechos Civiles, cuya resistencia activa y no violenta al racismo contribuyó
tanto a transformar los Estados Unidos de América.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es tan real como el movimiento que Gandhi
lideró en la India y que tanto cambió esa nación y liberó a millones de
personas de la opresión colonial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El amor a los enemigos es tan real como el de una
mujer que conocí en Camden, Nueva Jersey</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Su hija Shaline, de 13 años, fue brutalmente
asesinada un caluroso día de agosto por un desconocido que no tenía ningún
motivo para matar a la niña.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Este tipo
de asesinatos son difíciles de resolver, pero la policía de Camden nunca lo
dejó pasar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Varios años después del
asesinato, el asesino fue llevado ante la Justicia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lourdes, la madre de Shaline, hizo saber que
no quería la pena de muerte para el asesino.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"No me devolverá a mi niña", dijo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quería que le encerraran de por vida para que
no pudiera hacer daño a otras personas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pero le perdonó.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Su perdón ayudó
a curar un poco el dolor y la agonía que amenazaban el bienestar espiritual y
mental de Lourdes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El amor a los enemigos es tan real como los que
perdonaron al supremacista blanco, enfermo, deformado y lleno de odio que mató
a nueve personas hermosas en un estudio bíblico en Charleston, SC, en junio de
2015</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El día que el
asesino compareció ante el tribunal, la CNN retransmitió en directo las palabras
de perdón ofrecidas por familiares de las víctimas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/19/i-forgive-you-relatives-of-charleston-church-victims-address-dylann-roof/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Washington Post informó</span></b></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> de la
expresión extraordinariamente conmovedora y poderosa del perdón cristiano</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Los
familiares de las personas asesinadas en el interior de la histórica iglesia
afroamericana de Charleston, Carolina del Sur, a principios de esta semana pudieron
hablar directamente con el pistolero acusado el viernes en su primera
comparecencia ante el tribunal. Uno a uno, los que decidieron hablar en la
vista sobre la fianza no se mostraron airados. Por el contrario, mientras él
permanecía impasible, le ofrecieron perdón y dijeron que rezaban por su alma,
incluso mientras describían el dolor de sus pérdidas. "Te perdono",
dijo en la vista Nadine Collier, hija de Ethel Lance, de 70 años, con la voz
quebrada por la emoción. "Me habéis quitado algo muy valioso. Nunca
volveré a hablar con ella. Nunca volveré a abrazarla. Pero te perdono. Y ten
piedad de tu alma".<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Este San Valentín, </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">practiquemos
el amor transformador, el amor incluso por quienes nos hacen mal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La
Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P.
Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-90356440268943961942023-02-10T08:26:00.005-05:002023-02-10T08:26:50.057-05:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW02cezR1bzIvOBaFwiXzueqA9MMYaspdZWJz80DK6ioCykit9aihveb_drjXWLapXcVlwhZkUhZjn6t-ata197wejkOUiBg5Cm_kdkGNAcJpRj3SCZTKPC6SXggkNNrlg1ZF_HtFCdIaC0_JAXh9HtGK_bUS1YkxePkDT3S4YUgv869nub5U/s777/mandela%20%231.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="777" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW02cezR1bzIvOBaFwiXzueqA9MMYaspdZWJz80DK6ioCykit9aihveb_drjXWLapXcVlwhZkUhZjn6t-ata197wejkOUiBg5Cm_kdkGNAcJpRj3SCZTKPC6SXggkNNrlg1ZF_HtFCdIaC0_JAXh9HtGK_bUS1YkxePkDT3S4YUgv869nub5U/w379-h212/mandela%20%231.jpg" width="379" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbf8Da0QVFH2rwWF8UfgTBiXwbP6ZLlybakCCVIhX8BbSEv3cDl4odJgQXEvmiJgqK8D4rqlB7TWoHUJSAPJQcTFmpHUSaqgsUza1zcfva_kbafilFEBvG7MBCI_-5oPMxmcFYUqelQhDUK2ZEnc3XWjHIGhELPVUE7eA3s9P9FU6M2qmM44/s272/Mandela%20%232.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 21.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="272" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbf8Da0QVFH2rwWF8UfgTBiXwbP6ZLlybakCCVIhX8BbSEv3cDl4odJgQXEvmiJgqK8D4rqlB7TWoHUJSAPJQcTFmpHUSaqgsUza1zcfva_kbafilFEBvG7MBCI_-5oPMxmcFYUqelQhDUK2ZEnc3XWjHIGhELPVUE7eA3s9P9FU6M2qmM44/w326-h228/Mandela%20%232.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk102395319"></a><a name="_Hlk101856627"></a><a name="_Hlk94526547"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"></span></span></a><a href="https://cdn.britannica.com/93/173193-131-3EE3B458/Nelson-Mandela-South-African.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f">
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is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson
Mandela</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feb 8, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Sunday, Feb 12, the sixth Sunday in Ordinary time, we
will hear the words of St. Paul to the Christians in Corinth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">We speak a wisdom…, not a wisdom of this age, nor of the
rulers of this age who are passing away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rather, we speak God's wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God
predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rulers of
this age knew; for, if they had known it, they would not have crucified the
Lord of glory. But as it is written: <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">What eye has not seen, and ear
has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared
for those who love him, </span></em>this God has revealed to us through the
Spirit (I Cor 2:6-9)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">As we continue to celebrate Black History Month,</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">St. Paul’s words remind
us of the incredible achievements of </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nelson Mandela and his 27
years in prison</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He suffered so that
apartheid would be eradicated in South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All those years in prison…. How did he keep hope alive?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did he trust that the wisdom and truth
and sheer sanity of his position would prevail? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">He lived to see “what eye had not seen, nor ear heard” in
South Africa. He lived to see freedom, and became the President of his country,
ushering his fellow South Africans into a new era, with new political and
social structures rooted in equality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the 1990s, he worked a peaceful transition to majority rule, and served as
President from 1994-1999.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">President Mandela was a champion of education.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cristo Rey Jesuit in Baltimore works each day
to provide our teens with the education they need and desire so they can become
their deepest, truest selves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will
change our world for the better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“La
educación es el arma más poderosa que se puede utilizar para cambiar el mundo”.
- Nelson Mandela</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy,
S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 de Febrero, 2023</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos
y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Este
domingo 12 de febrero, sexto domingo del tiempo ordinario, escucharemos las
palabras de San Pablo a los cristianos de Corinto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hablamos
de una sabiduría..., no de una sabiduría de este siglo, ni de los gobernantes
de este siglo que van pasando.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hablamos
más bien de la sabiduría de Dios, misteriosa, oculta, que Dios predeterminó
antes de los siglos para nuestra gloria, y que ninguno de los gobernantes de
este siglo conoció; pues, si la hubieran conocido, no habrían crucificado al
Señor de la gloria. Pero como está escrito: Lo que ojo no vio, ni oído oyó, ni
ha entrado en corazón humano, lo que Dios ha preparado para los que le aman,
esto nos lo ha revelado Dios por el Espíritu” (I Cor 2:6-9)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mientras seguimos celebrando el Mes de la Historia Negra,</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> las palabras de San Pablo nos
recuerdan los increíbles logros de <b><span style="color: red;">Nelson Mandela y
sus 27 años de prisión.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sufrió para que se erradicara el apartheid en Sudáfrica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todos esos años en prisión.... ¿Cómo mantuvo
viva la esperanza?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Cómo confió en que
la sabiduría, la verdad y la pura cordura de su posición prevalecerían? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vivió
para ver "lo que el ojo no había visto, ni el oído oído oído" en
Sudáfrica. Vivió para ver la libertad y se convirtió en Presidente de su país,
llevando a sus compatriotas sudafricanos a una nueva era, con nuevas
estructuras políticas y sociales basadas en la igualdad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En la década de 1990, trabajó por una
transición pacífica al gobierno de la mayoría, y fue Presidente de 1994 a 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Presidente Mandela fue un defensor de la educación. </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cristo Rey Jesuit en Baltimore trabaja cada
día para proporcionar a nuestros adolescentes la educación que necesitan y
desean para que puedan llegar a ser lo más profundo y verdadero de sí
mismos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ellos cambiarán nuestro mundo
para mejor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy,
S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-45198048049317920992023-02-02T13:24:00.003-05:002023-02-02T13:24:50.891-05:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-xlvr0UjjnGfEyzNucgTHu8RGYzgWPgR6RRcr90VBJHR99j6XvTMjDjsYlmV0Y6Y_dksepEMBQz0QgZxd-DMWiSmMFLPOP_3cOVEyo-XYNfDsq9yRLRtxSAWAylBbYA-1uQ4_TB3OidmIo6cEC8eX1I5bqQ8NafWlksxoJEpW-JiFRvTCao/s725/BHM%20Feb%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="725" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-xlvr0UjjnGfEyzNucgTHu8RGYzgWPgR6RRcr90VBJHR99j6XvTMjDjsYlmV0Y6Y_dksepEMBQz0QgZxd-DMWiSmMFLPOP_3cOVEyo-XYNfDsq9yRLRtxSAWAylBbYA-1uQ4_TB3OidmIo6cEC8eX1I5bqQ8NafWlksxoJEpW-JiFRvTCao/w320-h192/BHM%20Feb%202023.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3q2iTsY-_hbaCnw702PfV-VYeKLh2G3LS0ZCzEMesS9kJz4hfJnv-SN4lahNGbwrUZatjNLJ0HRjdONG3QWaXOTv228VtqUByB_M3f3B3byifV_5Mu4IsLCokrCiZTGXRXBNaUA1bfvGZKqt3J7pHx3-9mCN7rm1t9JzJJc6LJkBOepwZMI/s431/Pope%20Sudan%20leaders.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="287" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3q2iTsY-_hbaCnw702PfV-VYeKLh2G3LS0ZCzEMesS9kJz4hfJnv-SN4lahNGbwrUZatjNLJ0HRjdONG3QWaXOTv228VtqUByB_M3f3B3byifV_5Mu4IsLCokrCiZTGXRXBNaUA1bfvGZKqt3J7pHx3-9mCN7rm1t9JzJJc6LJkBOepwZMI/w179-h269/Pope%20Sudan%20leaders.jpg" width="179" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-xlvr0UjjnGfEyzNucgTHu8RGYzgWPgR6RRcr90VBJHR99j6XvTMjDjsYlmV0Y6Y_dksepEMBQz0QgZxd-DMWiSmMFLPOP_3cOVEyo-XYNfDsq9yRLRtxSAWAylBbYA-1uQ4_TB3OidmIo6cEC8eX1I5bqQ8NafWlksxoJEpW-JiFRvTCao/s725/BHM%20Feb%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-xlvr0UjjnGfEyzNucgTHu8RGYzgWPgR6RRcr90VBJHR99j6XvTMjDjsYlmV0Y6Y_dksepEMBQz0QgZxd-DMWiSmMFLPOP_3cOVEyo-XYNfDsq9yRLRtxSAWAylBbYA-1uQ4_TB3OidmIo6cEC8eX1I5bqQ8NafWlksxoJEpW-JiFRvTCao/s725/BHM%20Feb%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Light from Light,
True God from True God <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feb 1, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today we begin Black History Month</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> a time to realize, recognize, and relish
the struggles and contributions of black women and men to our country and to
our world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">We also hear, in the readings for the 4<sup>th</sup> Sunday in
Ordinary Time, Jesus telling his disciples that we are to be the salt of the
earth and <b><span style="color: red;">light for the world</span></b> (Matt 5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Prophet Isaiah proclaims: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #363936; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Thus says
the LORD: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the
homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your
own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall
quickly be healed.” (Isaiah 58)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And <b><span style="color: red;">85 year old Pope Francis is
preparing to journey to South Sudan.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once again, he will call for peace in that land so torn by violence and
pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over 400,000 have died in recent
decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Animosity is fueled by
religious and ethnic conflicts; but the deep causes of the killings are rooted
in the injustice and corruption surrounding the distribution of wealth in the
oil rich Sudan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a meeting in Rome in
2019, <b><span style="color: red;">the Pope lowered himself to the ground and
kissed the feet of the Sudanese political leaders</span></b>, begging them to
make peace in their country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">., arguably the greatest American
who ever lived, once said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .7in; margin-right: .7in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“I refuse to accept the view that
mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that
the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I
believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">After making great gains in desegregating the South and changing
the ways of thinking of million of his fellow citizens through the practice of
loving and active non-violence, <b><span style="color: red;">King began to speak
out against the insanity and injustice of the Vietnam war.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to
mankind.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His opposition to war was
rooted in his following of Jesus, who call us to be light for the world.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .7in; margin-right: .7in; margin-top: 6.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot
drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only
love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and
toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aor6-DkzBJ0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“We shall overcome” by the Morehouse choir</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep
Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luz
de luz, Dios Verdadero de Dios Verdadero<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1 de Febrero, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hoy comenzamos el Mes de
la Historia Negra,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> un tiempo para darnos cuenta,
reconocer y saborear las luchas y contribuciones de las mujeres y hombres
negros a nuestro país y a nuestro mundo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">También escuchamos, en las lecturas
del cuarto domingo del tiempo ordinario, a Jesús decir a sus discípulos que
debemos ser la sal de la tierra y <b><span style="color: red;">la luz del mundo</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>(Mt 5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El
profeta Isaías proclama: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Así dice Yahveh: Comparte tu
pan con el hambriento, acoge al oprimido y al sin techo; viste al desnudo
cuando lo veas, y no vuelvas la espalda a los tuyos. Entonces brotará tu luz
como el alba, y tu herida sanará pronto". (Isaías 58)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Y el Papa Francisco, de 85
años, se prepara para viajar a Sudán del Sur.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Una vez más, pedirá la paz en esa tierra tan
desgarrada por la violencia y el dolor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Más de 400.000 personas han muerto en las últimas décadas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La animadversión está alimentada por
conflictos religiosos y étnicos; pero la causa profunda de las matanzas hunde sus
raíces en la injusticia y la corrupción que rodean la distribución de la riqueza
en el Sudán rico en petróleo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En una
reunión celebrada en Roma en 2019, <b><span style="color: red;">el Papa se postró
en el suelo y besó los pies de los líderes políticos sudaneses,</span></b>
rogándoles que lograran la paz en su país.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El reverendo Martin Luther
King Jr,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> posiblemente el mayor estadounidense que haya existido,
dijo una vez:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Me niego a aceptar la opinión
de que la humanidad está tan trágicamente atada a la medianoche sin estrellas
del racismo y la guerra que el brillante amanecer de la paz y la fraternidad
nunca podrá hacerse realidad... Creo que la verdad sin armas y el amor
incondicional tendrán la última palabra".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tras conseguir grandes logros en la
eliminación de la segregación racial en el Sur y cambiar la forma de pensar de
millones de sus conciudadanos mediante la práctica de la no violencia amorosa y
activa, <b><span style="color: red;">King empezó a pronunciarse contra la locura
y la injusticia de la guerra de Vietnam.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dijo: "La humanidad debe poner fin a la
guerra o la guerra pondrá fin a la humanidad".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Su oposición a la guerra estaba arraigada en
su seguimiento de Jesús, que nos llama a ser luz para el mundo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Devolver odio por odio
multiplica el odio, añadiendo más oscuridad a una noche ya desprovista de
estrellas. La oscuridad no puede expulsar a la oscuridad; sólo la luz puede
hacerlo. El odio no puede expulsar al odio; sólo el amor puede hacerlo. El odio
multiplica el odio, la violencia multiplica la violencia y la dureza multiplica
la dureza en una espiral descendente de destrucción."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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himno del movimiento por los derechos civiles, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aor6-DkzBJ0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“We shall overcome” by the Morehouse choir</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br />A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-44362345001947815332023-01-24T09:48:00.003-05:002023-01-24T09:48:41.855-05:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrbC3yv6ueS82HW97k_dQAScdUOZP6a-Z__hxmEh0yu57XWHoFlOqDygtzNVYj6QmjFWWgMiRXiEyT74LlPjpxt0ZNT90QZBd694PSwBgwiY37JA29g-yuPmjjVFS8hs0kUTcUgsZA75HaZT6rhPGgPDq8PqgeaMjJ6g77vpIcmzxmaHY9Rkk/s748/Poverty%20word%20cloud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="748" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrbC3yv6ueS82HW97k_dQAScdUOZP6a-Z__hxmEh0yu57XWHoFlOqDygtzNVYj6QmjFWWgMiRXiEyT74LlPjpxt0ZNT90QZBd694PSwBgwiY37JA29g-yuPmjjVFS8hs0kUTcUgsZA75HaZT6rhPGgPDq8PqgeaMjJ6g77vpIcmzxmaHY9Rkk/w256-h140/Poverty%20word%20cloud.png" width="256" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTq1zDRBB3Ui7dMa0rBmsbGGsYB40WhCyXhXXxK-Dmv10MkvrDmjueFm-hivcMIfLkOzG_9Py3KfGJoD3aVYLHlDK-KjcV-HO2goQ0L_7x7vHGJC8ZlZiXVNzAbGEebCNqrDzzsMKKP8rBsgt4l6D2mDMPJAVv26PC6_sfkVZs1_M3kiFkTg/s273/Poverty%20please%20help.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="273" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTq1zDRBB3Ui7dMa0rBmsbGGsYB40WhCyXhXXxK-Dmv10MkvrDmjueFm-hivcMIfLkOzG_9Py3KfGJoD3aVYLHlDK-KjcV-HO2goQ0L_7x7vHGJC8ZlZiXVNzAbGEebCNqrDzzsMKKP8rBsgt4l6D2mDMPJAVv26PC6_sfkVZs1_M3kiFkTg/w223-h148/Poverty%20please%20help.jpg" width="223" /></a></div></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">January: Poverty
Awareness Month<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><a href="https://www.povertyusa.org/facts"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.povertyusa.org/facts</span></b></a><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr.
Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>January 25, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Does it make
any sense to claim there is something good about poverty?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does Jesus mean when he talks about “the
poor”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why does he proclaim the poor
“Blessed”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Jesus’
time, the Roman overlords were taxing the people into destitution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The despised tax collectors got in on the
game by fleecing their fellow Jewish brothers and sisters, extorting even more
than the Romans demanded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing all
this, <b><span style="color: red;">Jesus called for a revolution of love, based
on the reversal of values.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The rich were not to be extolled and emulated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The poor were to be prized and
cherished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Kingdom of God, we are
to love our enemies, not retaliate against them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Practicing such non-violence, Gandhi and
Martin Luther King, Jr. changed the world!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Jan 29<sup>th</sup>,
The Gospel for the 4<sup>th</sup> Sunday in ordinary time announces the
Beatitudes, the preamble to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters
5-7).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">In the
first beatitude, Jesus says, “Blessed are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is the
Kingdom of heaven.”</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Luke’s
Gospel, the truth is stated even more starkly: Blessed are you who are poor….
Woe to you who are rich (Luke 6: 20, 24).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The whole Sermon on the Mount is a way of living that makes us happy</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “Blessed”
is a translation of the Greek word <i>Makarios</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be translated, “happy,” “fortunate,”
“blessed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus and many of his
followers have noted that often those who live on slender means are more
content and peaceful than those who are always scheming to make a buck off
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who practice forgiveness
are more content and consoled than those who harbor hate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who thirst for Justice and Truth make a
better world than those who hoard wealth and destroy the common good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the
Kingdom of God all will share equitably in the goods of creation and the joys and
benefits of community. transformed in Christ we will be blessed, happy,
fortunate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to bring to bear on
our present existence the realities of the promise Reign of God, we must work
to eradicate destitution that plagues the desperately poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We also need
to know our own spiritual poverty and our need for God to be God in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Repetition
is the mother of all learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
listen again this week to “The Cry of The Poor.”</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8J358Tz1-Kmx6JyM_EzPiBZER3mxfjBr-fb4bKro7CBlXUWxkMzOvrqYK1sM1mhBSMVLsFGuub6LpO5i52FTD7__jwey5fl5BTpzUolD9HO08ZbeghIzSLgsaacE5JrLDq25rH9X_VZ5pBOPBCnUT7BAfiWxc3no_GEpi4S2ctQlln76FZkc/s204/Cry%20of%20Poor%20Foley.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="115" data-original-width="204" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8J358Tz1-Kmx6JyM_EzPiBZER3mxfjBr-fb4bKro7CBlXUWxkMzOvrqYK1sM1mhBSMVLsFGuub6LpO5i52FTD7__jwey5fl5BTpzUolD9HO08ZbeghIzSLgsaacE5JrLDq25rH9X_VZ5pBOPBCnUT7BAfiWxc3no_GEpi4S2ctQlln76FZkc/s1600/Cry%20of%20Poor%20Foley.png" width="204" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://www.povertyusa.org/facts"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.povertyusa.org/facts</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Q0FjuAUZY"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Listen to Jesuit Fr. John Foley’s beautiful song, <i>The Cry of
the Poor</i></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick
Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enero:
Mes de Concienciación Sobre La Pobreza </span></b><a href="https://www.povertyusa.org/facts"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.povertyusa.org/facts</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El
Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy, S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>25 de Enero, 2023</span></b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Tiene algún sentido afirmar que la
pobreza tiene algo de bueno?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Qué quiere
decir Jesús cuando habla de "los pobres"?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Por qué proclama a los pobres
"bienaventurados"?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En tiempos de Jesús, los señores
romanos cobraban impuestos a la gente hasta llevarla a la indigencia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los despreciados recaudadores de impuestos
entraron en el juego desplumando a sus hermanos y hermanas judíos,
extorsionando incluso más de lo que exigían los romanos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al ver todo esto, <b><span style="color: red;">Jesús
llamó a una revolución del amor, basada en la inversión de los valores</span></b><span style="color: red;">.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los ricos no
debían ser ensalzados ni emulados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los
pobres debían ser valorados y apreciados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>En el Reino de Dios, debemos amar a nuestros enemigos, no tomar
represalias contra ellos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Practicando la
no violencia, Gandhi y Martin Luther King Jr. cambiaron el mundo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El 29 de enero, el Evangelio del 4º
domingo del tiempo ordinario anuncia las Bienaventuranzas, preámbulo del Sermón
de la Montaña (capítulos 5-7 de Mateo).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">En la primera bienaventuranza, Jesús dice:
"Bienaventurados los pobres de espíritu, porque de ellos es el Reino de
los cielos"</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En el
Evangelio de Lucas, la verdad se expone de forma aún más cruda: Bienaventurados
los pobres.... Ay de vosotros los ricos (Lucas 6: 20, 24).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Todo el Sermón de la
Montaña es una forma de vivir que nos hace felices</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La palabra "Bienaventurados" es una
traducción de la palabra griega Makarios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Puede traducirse por "feliz", "afortunado",
"dichoso".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesús y muchos de
sus seguidores han observado que, a menudo, los que viven con pocos medios
están más contentos y en paz que los que siempre están maquinando para ganar
dinero a costa de los demás.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los que
practican el perdón están más contentos y consolados que los que albergan
odio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los que tienen sed de Justicia y
Verdad hacen un mundo mejor que los que acaparan riquezas y destruyen el bien
común.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En el Reino de Dios todos
compartirán equitativamente los bienes de la creación y las alegrías y
beneficios de la comunidad. transformados en Cristo seremos bienaventurados,
felices, afortunados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Para que en
nuestra existencia actual se hagan realidad las promesas del Reino de Dios,
debemos trabajar para erradicar la miseria que asola a los desesperadamente
pobres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">También necesitamos conocer nuestra
propia pobreza espiritual y nuestra necesidad de que Dios sea Dios en nuestras
vidas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La repetición es la madre de todo
aprendizaje.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Escuchemos de nuevo esta
semana "El Grito de los Pobres".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Q0FjuAUZY"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eschuca La Canción del Padre Jesuita John Foley <i>El Grito de Los
Pobres</i></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos
Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-75618611827260044122023-01-23T08:10:00.002-05:002023-01-23T08:16:20.624-05:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR_eQe-9xQl3lKzXX5MkaXjvMK_SUvSe4fAVSilT10Sbql7Tyvouh_LCNApBe7j2DuVs__iDT2bY_l2ogUC2hmLQN9AnKM5n2A-lM_SCMFRrNqMi-TXzD0JGGNGHKZERGSBVtANBa37KRmDNxSwCwhCw4-AfpJUlHOE2gEDXGT52TNmadcPpA/s600/Camden%20NJ%20poverty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="600" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR_eQe-9xQl3lKzXX5MkaXjvMK_SUvSe4fAVSilT10Sbql7Tyvouh_LCNApBe7j2DuVs__iDT2bY_l2ogUC2hmLQN9AnKM5n2A-lM_SCMFRrNqMi-TXzD0JGGNGHKZERGSBVtANBa37KRmDNxSwCwhCw4-AfpJUlHOE2gEDXGT52TNmadcPpA/w240-h146/Camden%20NJ%20poverty.jpg" width="240" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XUw8Bqj2GZxLb5sD-_GRKS-THGs4-mN1U24BB-evgAUzLzjm3caNL4jJG-vv28iOF41PDn-TUrixq0xl3rmZX4icSvk08GogRYqfkcsFwXITjy1aTya_NJpsu4OvPNI5_lF2VU4ceVZ64yJGyXQIEoyolLddeT69xNGmcL8opOeF-d0Mgck/s490/poverty%20%232.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="490" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XUw8Bqj2GZxLb5sD-_GRKS-THGs4-mN1U24BB-evgAUzLzjm3caNL4jJG-vv28iOF41PDn-TUrixq0xl3rmZX4icSvk08GogRYqfkcsFwXITjy1aTya_NJpsu4OvPNI5_lF2VU4ceVZ64yJGyXQIEoyolLddeT69xNGmcL8opOeF-d0Mgck/w215-h145/poverty%20%232.png" width="215" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">January is Poverty Awareness Month</span></b></div>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>January 18, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">January is Poverty Awareness Month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.usccb.org/committees/catholic-campaign-human-development/poverty-awareness-month"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Catholic
Bishops of the USA Campaign for Human Development provides a great deal of
information on their website</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We all need to hear the cry of the poor (Psalm 34) and
respond to the needs of those suffering in poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"></span></span></span><a href="http://www.povertyusa.org/facts"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Poverty Facts: </span></b></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>37 million live in Poverty
in the USA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In 2020, 11.4% (37 million persons) of the USA lived in poverty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.povertyusa.org/data"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #00b0ff; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Use our interactive map</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
to take a closer look at poverty statistics in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the US Government, a family of
three with $19,985 a year is poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
four people, the poverty line is set at $25,701.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with those low thresholds, </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.3%
of the population—or 17.3 million people—live in deep poverty</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
with incomes below 50% of their poverty thresholds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">29.9%
of the population—or 93.6 million—live close to poverty</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
with incomes less than two times that of their poverty thresholds. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Median family income in the USA is $65,712 (half
are above that, half below that).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Median
rent is $1,062 a month. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who Lives in Poverty?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span></span></span><a href="http://www.povertyusa.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">http://www.povertyusa.org/</span></b></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; 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Jesuit Fr. John Foley’s beautiful song, <i>The Cry of the Poor</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enero es Mes de Concienciación Sobre La Pobreza<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy,
S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>18 de Enero, 2023</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos
y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enero
es el mes de la concienciación sobre la pobreza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.usccb.org/committees/catholic-campaign-human-development/poverty-awareness-month"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Campaña de los Obispos Católicos
de EE.UU. para el Desarrollo Humano ofrece mucha información en su sitio web</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Todos
debemos escuchar el clamor de los pobres (Salmo 34) y responder a las
necesidades de quienes sufren la pobreza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"></span></span></span><a href="http://www.povertyusa.org/facts"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Datos
sobre la pobreza</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>37 millones de personas viven en la pobreza
en Estados Unidos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En 2020, el 11,4% (37
millones de personas) de EE.UU. vivía en la pobreza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Utilice nuestro mapa interactivo para echar
un vistazo más de cerca a las estadísticas de pobreza en Estados Unidos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Según
el Gobierno de EE.UU., una familia de tres personas con 19.985 dólares al año
es pobre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Para cuatro personas, el
umbral de pobreza está fijado en 25.701 dólares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Incluso con esos umbrales tan bajos, <span style="color: red;">el 5,3% de la población -o 17,3 millones de personas- vive en
la pobreza extrema, </span>con ingresos inferiores al 50% de los umbrales de
pobreza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y el 29,9% de la población
(93,6 millones) vive cerca de la pobreza, con ingresos inferiores al doble del
umbral de pobreza. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La
renta familiar media en Estados Unidos es de 65.712 dólares (la mitad está por
encima y la otra mitad por debajo).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El
alquiler medio es de 1.062 dólares al mes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¿Quién vive en la pobreza?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.povertyusa.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.povertyusa.org/</span></span></span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><v:shape alt="A screenshot of a video game
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Q0FjuAUZY"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eschuca La
Canción del Padre Jesuita John Foley <i>El Grito de Los Pobres</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy,
S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-31022240198414623962023-01-10T13:29:00.004-05:002023-01-12T08:22:05.166-05:00Quotes from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. <p> </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Brilliant thoughts from </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a Prophet for Our and All Times</span></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Quotes
from </b></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13Wo9dqxQt7i_Z2kdGqpmVuzHLMPbh92ZiLCLeVcs1mwl65mtLfrEi9ZkB4xWiqcPaoPm4b_pF1O60ZFGlBgermlpQEIqAj1itJ-JE3gHO0_CHX-kC8UqcFXZj7Gx4jx3z5KHy9OVHXDdNS8Bx-xuc-FngRrA9FTAOHvT4GLW6RRj9UJmZ8Y/s1000/King%20Education.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="1000" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13Wo9dqxQt7i_Z2kdGqpmVuzHLMPbh92ZiLCLeVcs1mwl65mtLfrEi9ZkB4xWiqcPaoPm4b_pF1O60ZFGlBgermlpQEIqAj1itJ-JE3gHO0_CHX-kC8UqcFXZj7Gx4jx3z5KHy9OVHXDdNS8Bx-xuc-FngRrA9FTAOHvT4GLW6RRj9UJmZ8Y/w458-h229/King%20Education.webp" width="458" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Every man must decide
whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of
destructive selfishness. ”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“The function of
education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“An individual has not
started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his
individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Rarely do we find men
who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal
quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more
than having to think.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“The past is prophetic
in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful
tomorrows”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“He who is devoid of
the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“If you can’t fly then
run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you
do you have to keep moving forward.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Only in the darkness
can you see the stars.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Let no man pull you so
low as to hate him.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Never succumb to the
temptation of bitterness.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Forgiveness is not an
occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Those who are not
looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are
searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for
others.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Whatever affects one
directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you
are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“I refuse to accept the
view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and
war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a
reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the
final word.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual
power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“We must come to see
that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live
with its conscience.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“History will have to
record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not
the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good
people.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“A nation or
civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own
spiritual death on the installment plan.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“No, no, we are not
satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters
and righteousness like a mighty stream.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“The hope of a secure
and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to
justice, peace and brotherhood.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“It may be true that the law cannot make a man
love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty
important.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Of all the forms of
inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Never forget that
everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Nonviolence means
avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of
spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“At the center of
non-violence stands the principle of love.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Violence as a way of
achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of
the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have
frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary
victories, violence never brings permanent peace.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Returning hate for
hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of
stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence
multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral
of destruction.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mankind must put and
end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“I have the audacity to
believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies,
education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for
their spirits.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“By opening our lives
to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke
of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists …
Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight
vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Now there is a final
reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has
within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually
transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep
loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in
the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a
little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the
power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see.
It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love
that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down
and is destructive. So love your enemies.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The God whom we
worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic
waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing
testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“The first question
which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what
will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not
stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’</span></p><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-76135847890677314822023-01-06T14:59:00.007-05:002023-01-06T15:08:58.489-05:00<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk102395319"></a><a name="_Hlk101856627"></a><a name="_Hlk94526547"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b></span></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwRgp3oNGry5ED3SP8z-Kfqt1y9RDJUjUrqad8QpgrcP4oR2eF-zZp41pHs2X-4dUE8v5r4ZHqZsjX9TvULQQn9CmSOOzYBOwD-B93702hCpU56KQl1PIpZeRsuj-GD2e1A06vS5HGYIIKd3MK1UfbSkIFt93dOvrPFOJK5xypTFzyep6Jqig/s510/three%20kings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: 16pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="510" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwRgp3oNGry5ED3SP8z-Kfqt1y9RDJUjUrqad8QpgrcP4oR2eF-zZp41pHs2X-4dUE8v5r4ZHqZsjX9TvULQQn9CmSOOzYBOwD-B93702hCpU56KQl1PIpZeRsuj-GD2e1A06vS5HGYIIKd3MK1UfbSkIFt93dOvrPFOJK5xypTFzyep6Jqig/w194-h129/three%20kings.jpg" width="194" /></a> </b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ4NjUc1o4WteXY6_ee0YYVwTRTl-YbU7_rouGv5JPQmcbdtXgp_bskw8WE8U0JIp_YW8dzCni66fkrRJq9HFSQCenIB0uUSUwR6K9GhdSY17kEgkqgvjpXDreG4s8e9Dbr3rbMlk0AnRIjvZBqoy3b8omJ7B1yP4lLnB2_W1-wN1xnyrwqT8/s1200/Bethlehem%20%232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ4NjUc1o4WteXY6_ee0YYVwTRTl-YbU7_rouGv5JPQmcbdtXgp_bskw8WE8U0JIp_YW8dzCni66fkrRJq9HFSQCenIB0uUSUwR6K9GhdSY17kEgkqgvjpXDreG4s8e9Dbr3rbMlk0AnRIjvZBqoy3b8omJ7B1yP4lLnB2_W1-wN1xnyrwqT8/w253-h132/Bethlehem%20%232.jpg" width="253" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a name="_Hlk94526547"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></b></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Epiphany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Wise Ones Still Follow the Star</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Malloy’s Midweek Message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>January 4, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A few years ago, Mr. Walter Reap, our Vice President for
Academic Affairs, challenged our students to refer to one another as
scholars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has been quite a gift to
the children served here at CRJ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last
year, at an awards ceremony, one young woman voiced her appreciation for how
deeply the naming of her and her colleagues as “scholars” changes a young
person’s sense of self and self-worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To be named scholars is a gift.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Magi, the Three Kings, travel far and come to realize
who Jesus is: God with us, Emmanuel, a gift that brings salvation, i.e., health
and wholeness to all. The foreigners, those outside the halls of Herod’s
tyrannical power, know what is really going on and going forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shepherds, the lowly animal keepers, not
the celebrities of the day, are the first to hear the angels and see the child
is swaddling clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are now called to return to our everyday lives after the
celebrations of Hannukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The freezing polar vortex of the last days of
December have given way to remarkably warm days as we begin January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our New Year’s Resolutions hopefully have
made it through the first days of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now begins the work of Christmas, the making real of God’s
presence among us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Howard Thurman</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(1899-1981), theologian, pastor, educator, author, and civil rights leader,
grew as a boy in segregated Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
grandmother, Nancy Ambrose, who had been enslaved, instilled in him a sense of
self-worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From her he caught the
“contagion of religion.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Valedictorian at
Morehouse in 1923, he went on to found the first interracial and
interdenominational church in the USA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He became the Dean of the Chapels at Howard and Boston
Universities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a mentor and friend
of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Work of Christmas”
by Howard Thurman.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the song of the
angels is stilled,<br />
when the star in the sky is gone,<br />
when the kings and princes are home,<br />
when the shepherds are back with their flocks,<br />
the work of Christmas begins:</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to find the lost,<br />
to heal the broken,<br />
to feed the hungry,<br />
to release the prisoner,<br />
to rebuild the nations,<br />
to bring peace among the people,<br />
to make music in the heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Click
here to hear the </span></b></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANXV46f3jo0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel
City Chorale sing We Three Kings</span></b></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep Safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keep Sane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep Smiling<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCyTN1_fwwz9xbUVONMX0tziUSKUA8NL0zCjP8S5PGgS4fs1cokTsQzVlULptsgvxClq6Pu_u1MvI-5CTC2EkG8IiTFappLdaNr_R35wR9n5kPq8P0AAGlA-mdpwLlIhSYM0WMNxgUhPcb4TgdLnjGyWi9QGypUrJ1qwIuGblzc34wdBIJVBQ/s510/three%20kings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="510" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCyTN1_fwwz9xbUVONMX0tziUSKUA8NL0zCjP8S5PGgS4fs1cokTsQzVlULptsgvxClq6Pu_u1MvI-5CTC2EkG8IiTFappLdaNr_R35wR9n5kPq8P0AAGlA-mdpwLlIhSYM0WMNxgUhPcb4TgdLnjGyWi9QGypUrJ1qwIuGblzc34wdBIJVBQ/w210-h140/three%20kings.jpg" width="210" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinpI1DAB2cU10WOt32eitiQA-2Od34JKDeKN7lAFvoNF-QbKDdHS7cuUbpChNgNT2zkIsPLUkqkZR5a0gDOLvvUqoY0pqdGRXS7R1EIPZCZXqH5DLDSbu-BhJV1roLmkmKqMYRKemzvwG1bvpyWKRlfR6ypmGVJpL8cZTabiOinWKGZuoY0TM/s1200/Bethlehem%20%232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinpI1DAB2cU10WOt32eitiQA-2Od34JKDeKN7lAFvoNF-QbKDdHS7cuUbpChNgNT2zkIsPLUkqkZR5a0gDOLvvUqoY0pqdGRXS7R1EIPZCZXqH5DLDSbu-BhJV1roLmkmKqMYRKemzvwG1bvpyWKRlfR6ypmGVJpL8cZTabiOinWKGZuoY0TM/w267-h139/Bethlehem%20%232.jpg" width="267" /></a> </b></div></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 400; mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Epiphania.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #006600; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></b></span></span></span></b><div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 400; mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"> Los Sabios Todavia Siguen La Estrella</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></b></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Miercoles Mensaje del Padre Malloy,
S.J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4 de Enero, 2023</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amigos
y Amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hace
unos años, el Sr. Walter Reap, nuestro Vicepresidente de Asuntos Académicos,
retó a nuestros alumnos a que se refirieran a los demás como eruditos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esto ha sido todo un regalo para los niños a
los que atendemos en CRJ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El año pasado,
en una ceremonia de entrega de premios, una joven expresó su agradecimiento por
lo profundamente que el nombramiento de ella y sus compañeros como "becarios"
cambia el sentido de sí misma y su autoestima.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ser nombrado becario es un regalo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Los
Reyes Magos viajan lejos y se dan cuenta de quién es Jesús: Dios con nosotros,
Emmanuel, un regalo que trae la salvación, es decir, salud y plenitud para
todos. Los extranjeros, los que están fuera de los salones del poder tiránico
de Herodes, saben lo que realmente ocurre y avanzan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los pastores, los humildes cuidadores de
animales, no las celebridades del momento, son los primeros en oír a los
ángeles y ver al niño envuelto en pañales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahora
estamos llamados a volver a nuestra vida cotidiana después de las celebraciones
de Hannukah, Navidad y Kwanzaa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El
gélido vórtice polar de los últimos días de diciembre ha dado paso a días
notablemente cálidos al comenzar enero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Con suerte, nuestros propósitos de Año Nuevo han superado los primeros
días del año.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahora
comienza el trabajo de la Navidad, la realización de la presencia de Dios entre
nosotros.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Howard
Thurman (1899-1981), teólogo, pastor, educador, autor y líder de los derechos
civiles, creció de niño en la segregada Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Su abuela, Nancy Ambrose, que había sido
esclava, le inculcó el sentido de la autoestima.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De ella se contagió "la religión".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Estudió en Morehouse en 1923 y fundó la
primera iglesia interracial e interdenominacional de Estados Unidos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Llegó a ser decano de las capillas de las
universidades de Howard y Boston.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fue
mentor y amigo del reverendo Martin Luther King, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"El
trabajo de la Navidad" de Howard Thurman<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cuando
se calme el canto de los ángeles, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cuando
la estrella en el cielo se haya ido,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cuando
los reyes y príncipes estén en casa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cuando
vuelvan los pastores con sus rebaños, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">comienza
la obra de navidad: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">para
encontrar a los perdidos, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">para
curar a los quebrantados, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">para
alimentar a los hambrientos, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">liberar
al prisionero, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">para
reconstruir las naciones, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">para
llevar la paz al pueblo, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hacer
música en el corazón. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><v:shape alt="A picture containing person, concert band, crowd, group
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Click
here to hear </span></b></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANXV46f3jo0"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel
City Choir sing We Three Kings</span></b></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La Paz,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P. Ricardo Malloy,
S.J.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk94526547;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101856627;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102395319;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sigamos Seguro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sigamos Sano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigamos Sonriendo</span></b></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-53193961312448248932022-12-25T11:14:00.003-05:002022-12-25T11:14:36.691-05:00Christmas 2022: Homily offered by Rick Malloy, S.J.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5IhKKdIOCLoIkinzL5kdSphNSutpQ1EVY_MyoEDKX17cokJCN0Rn0UQpB1r1b8b8JcK2kHwCizJMbzcP2IYoHchm5JR77jYq7oeO-bExivgin9gwJKGZhPgoEQK4yrL_xbO7xVz8phhG0e_xnu3nfkBZ4Toi4ZXzKC0jNbKb2M5mKH8Zle4/s1200/Bethlehem%20%232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5IhKKdIOCLoIkinzL5kdSphNSutpQ1EVY_MyoEDKX17cokJCN0Rn0UQpB1r1b8b8JcK2kHwCizJMbzcP2IYoHchm5JR77jYq7oeO-bExivgin9gwJKGZhPgoEQK4yrL_xbO7xVz8phhG0e_xnu3nfkBZ4Toi4ZXzKC0jNbKb2M5mKH8Zle4/w464-h244/Bethlehem%20%232.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">Christmas Homily 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rick Malloy, S.J.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The Logos was God, and the Logos was in communication with God.”
-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Benedict XVI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Little kids’ Christmas play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cool 7-year-old Billy trumpets: “I bring
Gold.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bobby, six, yells: “I bring myrrh.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barney, five, and always a little discombobulated,
says “Frank sent this.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What is brought to us as Jesus is born again in our
lives and in our World?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What will we send
as a result of the Incarnation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To whom
shall we send it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">First, Let me say something about the
WORD, the LOGOS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second, Something about
a Christmas Song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Third, something
about The Letter, the documentary that aired on PBS the other night. It’s about
the encyclical letter, <i>Laudato Si</i>, on the climate crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope Francis sent <i>Laudato Si</i> in 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He addressed it to the whole world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all must find ways to respond to this
crisis. Finally, there will be a final suggestion….</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LOGOS.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Christmas, we need truth and hope more
than ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE WORD, THE LOGOS, is
truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE WORD is not just in touch
with reality, or just corresponding to reality. THE WORD creates and sustains
reality, permeates, and penetrates all the pulsating beauty and bodacious being
of existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Logos might better be
translated “the reason for existence.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
“Purpose of our lives.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “Why we are
here” is born in the baby in the manger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are born to praise reverence and serve God and be happy with God and
all our loved ones forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This life is
a prelude to life eternal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">THE WORD has become human,
and we see the glory, the glory of the Lord and the glory of “the human person
fully alive.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE WORD takes on our human
being and transforms us, giving us grace upon grace upon grace (John 1:16).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Greek, grace is <i>charis</i>, from which
we get the word charism, meaning a divine gift, a transcendent power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thomas Aquinas says grace is the ability to
do what we could not do before.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And in this grace, the gift
of God, we find hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We find purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We find love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And we and our worlds are transformed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>With this grace we are gifted with Peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to accept and actualize the gift of
grace, this ability to make Peace in our world, in our communities and families
and in our hearts.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2: Christmas Songs:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the Today show reported the other day
that the most played Christmas songs are: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">#5 It’s the Wonderful time of year<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>#4 Jingle bell Rock #3 Rudolph<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#2
Rock christmas tree<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#1 All I want is You.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But
the song we really need to hear is “<i>Do You Hear What I Hear</i>.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Do you hear What I hear”</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> was written in 1962 by a husband-and-wife
song writing team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wrote it in
response to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we watch the horrors and atrocities
happening right now in the Ukraine, we have to ask the first question of the
song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you see what I see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do we see what’s happening on our Southern
Border as Central American countries descend into chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do we hear what the lamb says to the shepherd boy,
that there is a song high above the trees with a voice as big as the sea?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That song sends the shepherd boy to the mighty
king.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boy tells the King of a child
who shivers in the cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He calls for
the king to bring silver an gold, the wealth of the kingdom to the aid of the
poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the King hears and calls the
people to pray for peace everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
the child bring us goodness and light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So much to hear in this song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Care for the poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen and pay
attention to the deeper meanings of the Christmas story, the gift and grace of
the LOGOS among us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The call to care for
everyone, and the images of nature in the song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Night wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The voice as big as
the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>THE LETTER</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to pray for peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to call those who control our
political economy to care for the poor and desperate among us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even more as we listen this Christmas, we need
to hear the cry of the earth. That cry is expressed in a documentary which
aired on PBS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Letter is a beautiful meditation on people from
all over the earth who Pope Francis invited to the Vatican for a conversation
about how climate change is impacting their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A woman from Ireland, a indigenous chief from
the Amazon, a kid from India, a man from Senegal who breaks down weeping when
telling about flood and rising tides destroying the village where he and his
family and friends live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Letter
brings home the impact of climate change on peoples lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What can we do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This year I suggest we all investigate the problems and challenges of
climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe think about changing
our diet and living a more planet friendly way of eating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe find small ways to lessen our global
footprint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buy stuff from eco friendly
corporations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dan Berrigan, S.J., the anti-war activist during the
Vietnam war and throughout his life once said: “No one can do everything, but everyone
can do something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the moral difference
between doing something and doing nothing is monumental indeed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally, one other suggestion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s Forgive. </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year, as Jesus comes to reconcile us to
one another, let’s forgive one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greg
Boyle is a well know Jesuit who runs Homeboys Industries in LA helping gang members
escape the gang life, and helping the incarcerated get reintegrated into
society after serving prison sentences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His new book is <i>Forgive Everybody</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Maybe get to the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">sacrament of reconciliation</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, confession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s good for the soul, and the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus told us to “do this in memory of me” and we
celebrate Eucharist daily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus also
taught us to pray and the only command in the prayer is to “forgive those who trespass
against us.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daughter, Katherine Schwarzenegger
Pratt (I think her husband is a movie star) has a wonderful book, <i>The Gift
of Forgiveness: Inspiring stories from those who have overcome the unforgivable</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells of people like Sara Klebold, the
mother of one of the Columbine Killers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imacullée
Ilibagiza here tells of how she overcame he hatred for those who killed her family
and millions of others with machetes in the Rwandan genocide of April 1994.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hate filled rhetoric built into a holocaust
with horrific consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to
tone down the truly alarming increase of hate speech in our society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to listen to Christ’s call, “that we
all be one.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Eucharist, the Mass, is the miracle and mystery
of our faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we take bread and
wine and pray, the awesome reality of the power of God in our lives, the power
to save us is present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The power to
rescue us from all sin and suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The power to open ourselves and our world to transformation in
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Frank” didn’t send this. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God sent this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God becomes one of us, baby bald and vulnerable in the manger where
animals munch their meals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Lord and
savior remains among us as Eucharist, love incarnate, Emmanuel, God with
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us realize and relish once again
this amazing and loving God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is
love. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s forgive and love one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Do
You Hear What I Hear?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Said the night wind to the little lamb,<br />
do you see what I see<br />
Way up in the sky, little lamb,<br />
do you see what I see<br />
A star, a star, dancing in the night<br />
With a tail as big as a kite<br />
With a tail as big as a kite<br />
<br />
Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy,<br />
do you hear what I hear<br />
Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy,<br />
do you hear what I hear<br />
A song, a song, high above the trees<br />
With a voice as big as the sea<br />
With a voice as big as the sea</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king,<br />
do you know what I know<br />
In your palace warm, mighty king,<br />
do you know what I know<br />
A Child, a Child shivers in the cold<br />
Let us bring Him silver and gold<br />
Let us bring Him silver and gold<br />
<br />
Said the king to the people everywhere,<br />
listen to what I say<br />
Pray for peace, people everywhere!<br />
listen to what I say<br />
The Child, the Child, sleeping in the night<br />
He will bring us goodness and light<br />
He will bring us goodness and light</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-84220853608556101232022-12-22T18:01:00.006-05:002022-12-30T09:02:43.942-05:00The Present of Presence: All is Gift<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><b><span style="color: #38761d;">The</span><span style="color: red;"> Present </span><span style="color: #38761d;">of </span><span style="color: red;">Presence: </span><span style="color: #38761d;">All Is Gift</span></b></span></p><p>(Here's an article I wrote for Christmas time years ago... Enjoy) </p><p></p><p class="Title1" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;">BustedHalo</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">.com<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an online magazine for spiritual seekers in
their 20s and 30s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Title1" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;">All
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<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">by Richard G. Malloy, S.J.</span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">December 1958</span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">When I was little, I was small. At
the age of four, my brother Timmy is a year older and can reach things I can’t. One
morning, he climbs up on a chair he’s put in the closet we’re not supposed to
open, and sees toys on the shelf, new toys, still in their packages.
Fun! He yanks down a set of blocks and a bunch of other stuff. Soon
I’m busy playing with a new set of beautiful, blond, wooden blocks, putting
them one on top of another, and then immediately knocking them down.
Fun! All of a sudden, our Mom, seeing that we’ve discovered the Christmas
stash early, pulls us into the kitchen. “Time for breakfast, boys.
I’m making chocolate chip pancakes and Maypo.” I love chocolate chip
pancakes and Maypo. Forget the blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHAZIYslrLsjIeK23y4HnRCci29mdP7jTFgGdr9Y2FvGQ4NPPOLqCw0jaxT2gBbAT34tJlO_ICWbrCu6M2Qn36Sx5fhcREClbRbrSGy5kvBatFzZ_i7za5g98wU76QePYzYRuI28lDYegfAIJH4Q5XxShV4dzwZ2SFen70le32444Kg1dKPRQ/s180/Christmas%20Havertown%201958.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="168" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHAZIYslrLsjIeK23y4HnRCci29mdP7jTFgGdr9Y2FvGQ4NPPOLqCw0jaxT2gBbAT34tJlO_ICWbrCu6M2Qn36Sx5fhcREClbRbrSGy5kvBatFzZ_i7za5g98wU76QePYzYRuI28lDYegfAIJH4Q5XxShV4dzwZ2SFen70le32444Kg1dKPRQ/s1600/Christmas%20Havertown%201958.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">A few days later, it’s Christmas morning. I rip the bright,
colored paper off a new set of beautiful, blond, wooden blocks.
Fun! I start stacking them and knocking them down. Fun! My
mother looks to see if I recognize the blocks. I’m clueless. The
blocks also come in pretty handy as objects to throw at my brother.
Fun! Mom stops that action. Not fun! Pretty soon, I’m
sleepy. Time for a nap. As I drift off, I hear my brother asking,
“Hey, aren’t these the toys we were playing with before?” “I don’t think
so, Timmy,” answers Mom. “Santa brought these in his sleigh last
night.” “Wow,” my brother replies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">PHILADELPHIA, PA</span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">December 2005</span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">When we are young, all is accepted as gift. We rarely
question why and how all the good things of life appear. We believe
whatever we are told. Santa comes down the chimney. Reindeer
fly. At the North Pole, elves make the toys. The magic of Christmas
is carried in the glow of the Christmas tree lights and the strong scent of
pine in the living room. Brightly wrapped packages appear during the
night. It’s all so miraculous when seen through the eyes of a little
child.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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and <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: right;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 11pt;">drink hot <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: right;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 11pt;">chocolate with
marshmallows... Sled...Sit late<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: right;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 11pt;">in the quiet<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: right;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 11pt;">glow of the <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: right;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 11pt;">tree's lights<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: right;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 11pt;">and let God <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: right;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 11pt;">be with you...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: right;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 11pt;">Most of all, pray.</span></b><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #d2430b; font-size: 6pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">As we mature, we come to realize that God gives even greater gifts
at Christmas. We discern and celebrate the reality and meaning of
Christ’s birth. His present to us is presence. In a stable is born
a baby, the savior of the world. God lies in a manger, is warmed by the
breath of oxen and ass, and makes his home among us. This Christmas, once
again, the miracle occurs. We are reminded that the life of grace--the
reality that God is present in the depths of our hearts and all that we
love--is the center of our lives. God becomes one of us, and we are God’s
family. God makes his home among us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">Christ’s birth reveals God’s love for us and promises that we will
“come to share in the divine nature” (II Peter 1:4). In the third
century, St. Athanasius proclaimed, “The Son of God became man, so that we might
become God.” We become human-unto-God, as was Jesus, and participate in
the mystery of creation’s transformation, “so that God may be all in all” (I
Cor 15:28).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">To Do…</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">This Christmas, be present to the reality and meanings of God’s
gifts to us. Eat hearty. Party wisely and well. Don't work
too hard. Read Charles Dickens' <i>A Christmas Carol</i> and Oscar
Hijuelos' <i>Mr. Ives' Christmas</i>, a short, remarkable novel of faith and
reconciliation. Watch <i>It’s a Wonderful Life</i> and “A Charlie Brown
Christmas.” Laugh and cry watching <i>While You Were Sleeping</i>, the story of
an achingly lonely young woman without family, who falls in love with a goofy
Irish clan in the week between Christmas and New Years. Listen to
"Christmas in the Trenches" by John McCutcheon, an amazing ballad
that poetically retells the historically true event when, for a few fleeting
hours, peace broke out in the frozen trenches of France, Christmas Eve
1914. The singing of Christmas carols on both sides of the lines gave the
men the inspiration and courage to lay down their guns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN6kdleBFkhrgCJOBn_B5ojC86UPkRTuAjtnxc-Fz-OpruiuG80mF7EfWoUsiUwmRlbaiAZ19Fd8fiE8MxUg1piCbnjRLXAMCu-jUngNbF3_7CxebswSrctLr5ocqP9RAspogngxBMR70Ig0tpgMG4d7EdZOORDzCLXrhWT7ZPETTzNDwosW8/s325/ChristmasTrenches-_John_McCutcheon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="325" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN6kdleBFkhrgCJOBn_B5ojC86UPkRTuAjtnxc-Fz-OpruiuG80mF7EfWoUsiUwmRlbaiAZ19Fd8fiE8MxUg1piCbnjRLXAMCu-jUngNbF3_7CxebswSrctLr5ocqP9RAspogngxBMR70Ig0tpgMG4d7EdZOORDzCLXrhWT7ZPETTzNDwosW8/s320/ChristmasTrenches-_John_McCutcheon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">Click Here <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXhZ4uR6rs">Christmas in the Trenches </a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">Take a child to see Santa. Give generously to the
poor. Sing Christmas Carols and drink hot chocolate with
marshmallows. Sled. Sit late in the quiet glow of the tree’s lights
and let God be with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">Most of all, pray. Walk outside at 2:00 AM on a freezing
cold, stunningly starlit night, and experience the awesomeness of the
universe. Go to Midnight Mass. Read the first chapters of Matthew
and Luke. Engage the beautiful rhythms of the Liturgy of the Hours.
Sit in still silence, breath and realize life is a miracle and mystery. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">Know that Christmas is the time of year when we remember and
ponder the birth of our God who loves us so much that he becomes one of
us. Vulnerable and wrapped in swaddling clothes, appears the one who
saves the world. Realize that Jesus is real and wants to be reborn again
in our hearts. The Lord has a mission for us. Worship him these
days and listen to that inner voice of your imagination where God
communicates. The presence of God confirms for us that St. Ignatius was
right: All is gift. Jesus again gifts us with his presence this
Christmas. O come, let us adore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Rev. Richard G. Malloy, S.J., Ph.D., was an Assistant
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Saint Joseph’s University in
Philadelphia, PA. From 2010-2019 he served as Vice President for Mission and University Chaplain at the University of Scranton. Since 2019 he has served as Director of Mission Integration at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore, MD.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The following reflection is part of our “Jesuit 101” series. This piece helps us to dive deeper into the Contemplation on the Incarnation from the Spiritual Exercises. To learn more about this contemplation, check out our explainer article: </i><a href="https://thejesuitpost.org/2021/12/jesuit-101-the-contemplation-on-the-incarnation-why-and-how-jesus-shows-up/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bf1e2d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“Jesuit 101: The Contemplation on the Incarnation: Why and How Jesus Shows Up”</i></a></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">St. Ignatius proposes the </span><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Contemplation of the Incarnation </i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">as a prayer during the </span><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Spiritual Exercises</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">. The person making the retreat imagines the love that the Holy Trinity has for the world in choosing to intervene on behalf of humans. I first encountered this prayer as a pre-novice, a stage of Jesuit formation before entering the novitiate. The group of pre-novices, men interested in discerning to enter the Society, gathered for a month of prayer before being sent off to work in parishes, universities, schools, and other apostolates. I was sent to the Sierra Tarahumara, a remote mountain range in Northern Mexico, to the parish of St. Michael of Guaguachique. I was unsure about being missioned to this location because it was often the scene of intense narco violence. But my desire to know and to serve God, in another culture, overcame my fear of the unknown. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon my arrival, my superior heard I was an artist and asked me to paint a postcard. The parish would send the image as a gift to thank benefactors and others who supported the mission. At first, I wasn’t sure what to paint, but God helped me. At that time, the teachers of the Rarámuri cultural centers, local indigenous schools, organized several traditional races, such as bola race and ariweta race, with the public school of the neighboring town. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Because I wanted to immerse myself in the Rarámuri culture, I did my best to dress myself like them, and pray like them. Inculturating myself, I decided to walk the over five-hour hike to watch the races wearing Rarámuri sandals, made from tire scraps. I was reminded throughout the walk, that I was not Rarámuri, as two large blisters developed, one on each foot. Arriving at dusk, I wanted nothing more than to sleep. Ramón, the father of a Rarámuri teacher, had prepared a small space for me to sleep at his home. But the blisters got worse, and after a bad night’s sleep, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to return on foot. Ramon invited me to stay with his family, so I could go back to Samachique with the school director the next day by car.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">In my infirmity, I continued to struggle with what I might paint for the Christmas card. I remember waking early, hoping for something to eat. There was Ramon, his wife, and his youngest son greeted me. Ramon’s wife was preparing a soup over a small firepit, and warming some tortillas. I sat on the floor, waiting to eat breakfast, and it struck me, that this was how Jesus must have lived. Jesus was born in a place like this: a very simple home between the mountains, with some improvised adobe walls and small rooms, a nice firepit in the middle of the patio as a kitchen, in the silence of a small town near the outskirts of the hills. Like the Holy Family, Ramon, his wife, and his small kid, had a surprising contagious happiness. This is where the Trinity decided to enter the world on a redemptive mission. As I ate my simple breakfast, I began to cry in silence at the scene I was contemplating. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">This moment inspired me to paint a Rarámuri nativity scene. It took me some time to create what I saw in the neighboring village. I painted Mary, holding Jesus in her arms, while Joseph was standing next to them, his eyes watching little baby Jesus. They were Rarámuri, in a cave, their traditional home. Considering how Christ entered the world, in this Rarámuri family, I was able to see how God desired to live among us, to show us God’s redemptive love, especially in the places it is most needed. By imagining where God chose to incarnate, we all can see where we are invited to make our home, with those discarded by society, to help make the Kingdom of God a reality. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">This article is dedicated to the memory of my Jesuit brothers Javier Campos, SJ and Joaquín Mora, SJ, whose lives were lost to the outrageous violence that affects Mexico. Their lives are a source of inspiration for those who have lived with the Rarámuri people.</i></p></div></div></div>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-21519441794953407862022-12-12T14:07:00.003-05:002022-12-24T07:38:52.013-05:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b>OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Advent III</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCL5r1VBsY2-21pJV-ORf1z3DGptxCEUbsvdjvboY1Eud9fi6MvKD-HRWEdNyoqpgbk1jF01zzw25GyE6TpObd9gpVgO4OaiJ0bWIP5n9OiF3gED3sZ5FEQLG7ZFjpWROeiKHb4PmD1fxDADR7I3fyrDlotN8matTRnHpVfzb5kDUMDvZPJE/s2560/guadalupe-prayer-scaled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1700" data-original-width="2560" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCL5r1VBsY2-21pJV-ORf1z3DGptxCEUbsvdjvboY1Eud9fi6MvKD-HRWEdNyoqpgbk1jF01zzw25GyE6TpObd9gpVgO4OaiJ0bWIP5n9OiF3gED3sZ5FEQLG7ZFjpWROeiKHb4PmD1fxDADR7I3fyrDlotN8matTRnHpVfzb5kDUMDvZPJE/w493-h328/guadalupe-prayer-scaled.jpg" width="493" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Monday Dec 12<sup>th</sup> we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with Mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Under the guidance of Ms. Rosalies Toledo, students reenact the events
of 1531 when Our Lady appeared, as brown skinned maiden, to a humble Juan
Diego.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The image of Guadalupe on Juan’s
tilma can is still on display in Mexico city.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sr. Mary McGlone, SSJ, writes of this feast:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .7in; margin-right: .7in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0.7in 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #414042; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">“
"<em>La Morenita</em>," as Guadalupe is called affectionately, is the
patron of the Americas and undoubtedly our hemisphere's most beloved
manifestation of Mary, the mother of God. The designation, <em>morenita</em>,
refers to the fact that the image of Guadalupe depicts Mary as a mestiza, a
person of both European and American ancestry, a divinely fashioned mixture of
cultures.</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .7in; margin-right: .7in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.7in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #414042; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Our Lady of Guadalupe
appeared just over a decade after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. In a time
marked by turmoil, abuse and prophecy, she epitomized the potential of the
Gospel to bring ancient traditions together to create something that neither
could imagine until they allowed grace to lead them into it. She embodied an
American expression of John the Baptist's voice crying in the wilderness.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .7in; margin-right: .7in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.7in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background: white; color: #414042; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Our Lady of Guadalupe
symbolizes divine love and God's desire that humanity create a community of
love and justice. <em>La Morenita</em> incarnates the intercultural
unity that is possible when we allow faith to lead us to a communion that
respects and simultaneously goes deeper than our diversity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/spirituality/scripture-life/third-sunday-advent-fiesta-love-and-liberation">https://www.ncronline.org/news/spirituality/scripture-life/third-sunday-advent-fiesta-love-and-liberation</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Lady of Guadalupe shows that God cares for the poor and oppressed,
wants all injustice and oppression to cease, and loves us as a mother loves her
children.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Advent,
as we prepare for Christ to be born again in our hearts, our minds, our lives
and our world, let’s meditate on the mystery and meaning of Our Lady of
Guadalupe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all called by God to
incarnate the Gospel values of hospitality, openness to others, and a mighty
striving for justice for all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p></p>A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.com0