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April is half Lent and half Easter. For the Lenten side we, at Victory Noll, have a Way of the Cross featuring Maryknoll photos of people, who daily carry Jesus cross, suffering degradation and death, once heaped upon Jesus.
The first station, “Jesus is condemed to death,” features twelve burly soldiers in full riot gear, surrounding a small, thin boy about eleven years old. The caption beneath the station tells us that the youth was “caught” protesting for justice in Korea.
The next thirteen pictures show scenes of poor dying and dead victims of greed and war in Guatamala, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Namibia, Chile and India. The pictures move me to tears: Jesus suffering and dying today in our brothers and sisters. The fifteenth picture is a majestic sunrise with the caption, “Jesus rises from the tomb of injustice and gives us the power to follow him.”
As we celebrate the “Easter half” of April, we go with brave women on Easter Sunday stumbling through a dark cemetery looking for a tomb: Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women. They expected a dead and decomposing body. They found instead, the living Christ, who gave them a mission to to tell the Apostles “that he is alive.” They claimed the power that Jesus now offers to us. Let us use that power to bring the peace of Jesus to our own world and everyone in it.
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El mes de abril es mitad cuaresma y mitad Pascua. Durante la cuaresma, aquí en Victory Noll tenemos el Vía Crucis mostrando fotos de Maryknoll de gente que cada día cargan la cruz de Jesús, sufriendo degradacion y muerte apiladas una vez sobre Jesús.
La primera estación, “Jesús es condenado a muerte,” muestra doce corpulentos soldados con pleno equipo, alrededor de un jovencito flaco, como de once años. El título debajo de la estación nos informa que el muchacho fue "capturado" por una protesta contra la injusticia en Corea.
Las otras trece estaciones muestran escenas de los pobres muertos y muriéndose, victimas de avaricia y guerra en Guatemala, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Namibía, Chile e la India. Las fotos me conmueven a lágrimas. Jesús sufriendo y muriéndose hoy día en nuestros hermanos y hermanas. La quince estación muestra una majestuosa salida del sol con el título; “Jesús se levanta del sepulcro de la injusticia y nos da el poder de seguirlo.”
Al celebrar la “mitad de la Pascua” de abril, acompariamos a las mujeres valientes el domingo de Pascua tropezando en obscuras en el cementerio, en busca de la tumba: María Magdalena, Joanna, María la madre de Santiago, y las “otras mujeres.” Anticipaban ver un cuerpo muerto y en corrupción. En vez, encontraron a Cristo vivo, que les dió el mandato de decirles a los Apóstoles “que Jesús esta vivo.” Tenían el derecho de reclamar el poder que Jesús nos ofrece a nosotros. Hemos de usar ese poder par traer la paz de Jesús a nuestro mundo y a todos los habitantes.
Our Lady of Victory Missonary Sisters is an American Missionary Congregation founded in 1922 — serving the poor and oppressed in a personal, non-institutional way
+ Proclaiming the Gospel + Working for Justice + Empowering the Laity
We want to minister to the culturally diverse Catholic population of this country, proclaiming Jesus Christ through evangelization, education and/or Christian formation. We would like to offer a solid Catholic teaching and ministries that speak to the needs of the faith communities, empowering the Laity, dedicating our prayer and ministry to the proclamation of God's Kingdom.
That is why we have become part of a network of religious communities collaborating to assist home mission dioceses in their efforts to develop lay leadership and ministry. This is an initiative of the Home Missions Leadership Conference and the Congar Institute for Ministry Development. READ MORE
