Here I am sitting in our living room watching the movie \u201cMission\u201d with my brother friars. It\u2019s a very difficult movie to watch. It deals with a group of good and compassionate Jesuit priests who are missionaries to indigenous peoples in South America. It\u2019s also the tale of the injustices that the indigenous people were forced to suffer by the Spanish and Portuguese Crowns. The injustices were so brutal that the priests themselves took on arms to defend the indigenous. Yet their faith in God never waivered and they were totally dedicated to justice as they thought God wanted to them to protect. There are many scenes that just break your heart.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s one in particular that leaves you numb with so many thoughts running through your mind: In this scene, one of the priests is processing with the Blessed Sacrament and the people carry the crucifix. As they process, invoking God\u2019s protection, the guns and cannons start firing on them and they begin to fall dead, men, women, and children. The priests together with other missionary helpers also die. The Europeans, who were probably all Catholic, must have recognized the Eucharistic presence of Jesus in the monstrance. But not even this stopped their brutality. Toward the end of the movie there is a scene of parentless children rowing away in a canoe into the forest, into their place of knowing, security, and safety. Running away from the Christians. They take with themselves a broken violin that belonged to one of the missionaries and that brought them much joy. They didn\u2019t take the crucifix.<\/p>\n
And we still live in a world where there is so much cruelty and violence. The scenes from this movie continue to play in so many ways.
\nIn spite of such atrocities throughout human history even to our own time, I still believe that God exists. I believe that no amount of cruelty can kill God. There is no great amount of hatred and human suffering that can keep God from rising from the suffering of human beings. God cannot be conquered.<\/p>\n
There is no political movement of philosophy that can manipulate God. Nothing good has ever come from Christian nationalism. And those that want it, will open themselves to doing the very same things that the Spanish and Portuguese crowns once did together with so many other \u201cChristian\u201d European crowns. It is not God\u2019s will that his Christ be used by those who have control and wield power. God will always raise his Christ, but it will never be for the benefit of those who lie, manipulate, and are the cause of grief and suffering in this world.<\/p>\n
Christ will always rise on the side of the good.<\/p>\n
I firmly believe that suffering and injustice will long exist in this world. Not because God wants it, but because human beings want it. But I will keep on believing and hanging on to the hope that God will keep rising in spite of human action against God\u2019s will. God will continue to resurrect in the very acts that open our eyes to recognize the terror that they produce.<\/p>\n
Every time someone becomes aware of their own sinfulness, Christ rises.
\nEvery time a fellow human being turns away from hatred and injustice, Christ rises.
\nEvery time we speak truth to power, Christ rises.
\nEvery time we dare to change our swords into plowshares, Christ rises.
\nEvery time we denounce lies and manipulations, Christ rises.
\nEvery time we stop persecuting others, Christ rises.
\nAnd every time we expose the machinations of those who wield power, Christ will forever rise.<\/p>\n
The cross, either his or ours, will never keep Jesus from rising.
\nThe resurrection of Jesus is a continuous event in the heart of our world and in the heart of the good who do not let themselves be fooled by the lies of the wicked.
\nOur Lord is Risen and He continues to Rise! Alleluia!!!!!
\nHappy Easter!
\nYou are in my prayers and in my heart. Peace and Good. Friar Julio<\/p>\n
Aqu\u00ed estoy sentado en nuestra sala viendo la pel\u00edcula “Misi\u00f3n” con mis hermanos frailes. Es una pel\u00edcula muy dif\u00edcil de ver. Trata sobre un grupo de sacerdotes jesuitas buenos y compasivos que son misioneros entre los pueblos ind\u00edgenas de Sudam\u00e9rica. Tambi\u00e9n narra las injusticias que los ind\u00edgenas fueron obligados a sufrir por las coronas espa\u00f1ola y portuguesa. Las injusticias fueron
\ntan brutales que los propios sacerdotes tomaron las armas para defender a los ind\u00edgenas. Sin embargo, su fe en Dios nunca fla que \u00f3 y se dedicaron por completo a la justicia, como cre\u00edan que Dios quer\u00eda que protegieran. Hay muchas escenas que te rompen el coraz\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
Hay una en particular que te deja paralizado con tantos pensamientos que te recorren la mente: En esta escena, uno de los sacerdotes est\u00e1 procesionando con el Sant\u00edsimo Sacramento y la gente lleva el crucifijo. Mientras procesionan, invocando la protecci\u00f3n de Dios, las armas y los ca\u00f1ones comienzan a disparar contra ellos y comienzan a caer muertos, hombres, mujeres y ni\u00f1os. Los sacerdotes, junto con otros misioneros, tambi\u00e9n mueren. Los europeos, probablemente todos cat\u00f3licos, debieron reconocer la presencia eucar\u00edstica de Jes\u00fas en la custodia. Pero ni siquiera esto detuvo su brutalidad. Hacia el final de la pel\u00edcula hay una escena de ni\u00f1os hu\u00e9rfanos remando en canoa hacia el bosque, hacia su refugio, su seguridad y su protecci\u00f3n. Huyendo de los cristianos. Llevan consigo un viol\u00edn roto que perteneci\u00f3 a uno de los misioneros y que les trajo mucha alegr\u00eda. No se lle var on el crucifijo.<\/p>\n
Y a\u00fan vivimos en un mundo con tanta crueldad y violencia. Las escenas de esta pel\u00edcula siguen repiti\u00e9ndose de much as maneras.
\nA pesar de tales atrocidades a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, incluso hasta nuestros d\u00edas, sigo creyendo que Dios e xis te. Creo que ninguna crueldad puede matar a Dios. No hay gran cantidad de odio y sufrimiento humano que pueda impedir que Dios surja del sufrimiento de los seres humanos. Dios es invencible.<\/p>\n
No hay movimiento pol\u00edtico ni filos\u00f3fico que pueda manipular a Dios. Nada bueno ha surgido jam\u00e1s del nacionalismo cristiano. Y quienes lo deseen se abrir\u00e1n a hacer lo mismo que las coronas espa\u00f1 ola y portuguesa, junto con tantas otras coronas europeas “cristianas”. No es la voluntad de Dios que su Cristo sea usado por quienes controlan y ejercen el poder. Dios siempre resucitar\u00e1 a su Cristo, pero nunca ser\u00e1 para beneficio de quienes mienten, manipul an y son causa de dolor y sufrimiento en este mundo.<\/p>\n
Cristo siempre se alzar\u00e1 del lado del bien.<\/p>\n
Creo firmemente que el sufrimiento y la injusticia existir\u00e1n por mucho tiempo en este mundo. No porque Dios lo quiera, sino porque los seres humanos lo desean. Pero seguir\u00e9 creyendo y aferr\u00e1ndome a la esperanza de que Dios seguir\u00e1 resucitando a pesar de las acciones humanas en contra de su voluntad. Dios seguir\u00e1 resucitando en los mismos actos que nos abren los ojos para reconocer el terror que producen.<\/p>\n
Cada vez que alguien toma conciencia de su propio pecado, Cristo resucita.
\nCada vez que un ser humano se aleja del odio y la injusticia, Cristo resucita.
\nCada vez que decimos la verdad al poder, Cristo resucita.
\nCada vez que nos atrevemos a convertir nuestras espadas en arados, Cristo resucita.
\nCada vez que denunciamos mentiras y manipulaciones, Cristo resucita.
\nCada vez que dejamos de perseguir a otros, Cristo resucita.
\nY cada vez que exponemos las maquinaciones de quienes ejercen el poder, Cristo resucitar\u00e1 para siempre.<\/p>\n
La cruz, ya sea la suya o la nuestra, nunca impedir\u00e1 que Jes\u00fas resucite.
\nLa resurrecci\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas es un acontecimiento continuo en el coraz\u00f3n de nuestro mundo y en el coraz\u00f3n de los buenos que no se dejan enga\u00f1ar por las mentiras de los malvados.
\n\u00a1Nuestro Se\u00f1or ha resucitado y sigue resucitando! \u00a1Aleluya!.
\n\u00a1Felices Pascuas!
\nLos tengo presentes en mis oraciones y en mi coraz\u00f3n. Paz y Bien. Fray Julio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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