VICTORY NOLL CENTER
1900 W. Park Drive
Huntington, Indiana 46750
(260) 356-0628

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Fridays
9 a.m. to Noon
Praying With Companions
3rd Tuesday of each month Taize Prayer Services
Thursdays
9 to 11 a.m.
1 to 4 p.m.
Matthew 25
Project
Jan. 13-14
April 13-14
Women Veterans Wellness Retreat
Daily during Lent Outdoor Stations of the Cross
February 17
6:30 to 9 p.m.
Couples' Retreat
February 25
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Invitation to Stillness
Tuesdays during Lent Lenten Soup and Bread Book Study
March 14
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Lenten Retreat
March 25 to March 28 Way of the Desert
Directed Retreat
April 3 to
April 4
Holy Week Retreat
Beginning April 9 Wellness Practices for Self-Care
April 21 Transitions and Discerning a New Direction
TBA

Poverty Simulation

April 23 to May 19 Artist Time
May 16 Unemployment Resource Seminar

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Visions March 2011

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Monthly Reflection
by Sister Martha Wordeman

July 2009

July invites us to reflect on Independence and Freedom as the right of every person. We have a strong declaration in the Preamble of our Constitution, saying that it is, "self evident that all are created equal," and that each has a right to, "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." The world admires this. The French people erected the Statue of Liberty.
Its original name was "Liberty Enlightening the World."

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your
teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-lost,
to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

When gold was discovered on native Cherokee land, the temptation was too great. President Andrew Jackson signed the "Indian Removal Act" in 1830 and the native people were made prisoners and 4,000 began the gruesome march to exile. An "invisible people," without a voice the Indian nation, even today, is denied a seat in the U.N.
As southern landowners built up large plantations of sugar and cotton, cheap labor was needed and found among the African slave market. "Invisible" and "voiceless", they were denied life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Some said the African slave had no soul. In spite of the Emancipation Proclamation, their life remained difficult, and obscure until Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. made them visible and gave them a voice.
Today, we Victory Noll Sisters strive to assist two other groups of innocent people, who have no access to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness. The first group is the immigrant working men and women, ruthlessly snatched from their work and placed in detention centers. The most familiar of these "raids" is Postville, Iowa. The brutality instills deep fear in families and is a far cry from Lady Liberty's invitation "give me your poor, yearning to breathe free ... I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
The other group for whom we strive to give voice and visibility are the women and children, literally captured and sold as slaves in a 20 billion dollar global sex trade. To access the newsletter STOP TRAFFICKING go to their website at:
http://www.stopenslavement.org/index.html
Please join us and many other organizations striving to restore the ideal on which our country was founded.

 

En Español

Julio nos invita a reflexionar en que la Independencia y la Libertad son derechos de cada persona. En el prefacio de nuestra Constitución tenemos una fuerte declaraci6n, diciendo que "es evidente que hemos sido criados iguales," y que todos tenemos el derecho a la "vida, libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad." Todo el mundo admira esto. Los franceses construyeron el Estatua de la Libertad. El nombre original era "La Libertad lIumina el Mundo." Esto fue para "dar gracias" por el fortalecimiento de la democracia en el mundo.
Las palabras más famosas son:

"... Dame tus cansados, tus pobres,
tu agrupamiento de gente anhelando respirar libre,
los despreciados desechados de tu playa.
Enviame éstos, los sin hogar, los descarriados en la tempestad.
Levanto mi lámpara ante tu puerta dorada."

Cuando el oro fue descubierto en los terrenos de los nativos Cherokees, la tentación fue muy grande. El presidente Andrew Jackson firmó el "Indian Removal Act" en el año 1830 y la gente nativa perdió la libertad que había sido IIamada por nuestra Constitución. Los Cherokees fueron IIevados presos y 4,000 de ellos empezaron la horrible marcha hacia el exilio. Los nativos de nuestra patria fueron "gente invisible, sin tener voz, cuya nación aun hoy día se Ie niega tener sitio en las Naciones Unidas.
Mientras los dueños de terrenos del sur levantaron plantaciones de azúcar y algodón, trabajo barato se consiguió del mercado de esclavos africanos. Así es que otra gente invisible y sin voz fue agregada a aquellos que no participan en la vida, libertad y la búsqueda de felicidad. Algunos grupos religiosos hasta decían que el esclavo africano no tenía alma. A pesar de la Proclamación de Emancipación, las vida permaneció dificil hasta que el Reverendo Martin Luther King, Jr. los hizo visible y les dio voz.
Hoy día, las Hermanas de Victory Noll, procuramos ayudar a otros dos grupos de gente inocente que no tienen acceso a la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad. El Primer grupo son los hombres y mujeres inmigrantes trabajadores que han sido cruel mente arrancados de su trabajo y puestos en centros de detención. El más conocido de estos "ataques" es el de Postville, Iowa. Esta barbaridad inculca un temor profundo en las familias y hay una gran distancia de la invitación de la Dama Libertad "dame tus pobres que anhelan respirar libre ... levanto mi lámpara ante tu puerta dorada."
El otro grupo al cual procuramos dar voz y visibilidad son las mujeres y niños, deliberadamente capturados y vendidos como esclavos en un mercado sexual global de 20 billones de dólares. Para tener acceso al boletin Stop Trafficking, vaya al sitio web:
http://www.stopenslavement.org/index.html
Favor de unirse a nosotras y a muchas otras organizaciones que procuran restaurar el ideal en cual nuestra nación fue fundada.

 

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