Month: May 2015

“St. John in Montana” News, 04/2015

Easter Time in Jersualem We celebrated Easter with the Community at Ecce Homo. From there we could easily participate in all the Holy Week celebrations. A highlight for me was the Good Friday holy hour on the Lithostrotos led by Fr. Russ McDougall, C.S.C.; in his homily he mentioned that … Mark, Matthew and Luke make it clearer than John does, that opposition to Jesus coalesced within particular groups – among the priests, the scribes, the Pharisees. They also show that even within those groups, Jesus did have some supporters. The Gospel of John, on the other hand, speaks too often of Jesus’ opponents simply as “the Jews.” And that, for me, is the dark side of the Gospel of John, the side that has nurtured Christian hatred of Jews as enemies of Jesus, hatred that paved the way for the Holocaust, hatred that lives on to this day in some quarters of the Christian world. At just this time last year, a white supremacist in Kansas City killed three people that he thought were …

Proclaiming in different places

Some of us started our apostolic year from April 13th and others one or two weeks later depending on their visas. One after the other we started to go to other places which was difficult because we love each other and we didn’t like to separate from each other. It is very sad after a whole year together and now we have to leave the others. It is really difficult to live but we have to go to different experiences to be more open and learn new things about cultures and places, hear different languages, eat different food…! Now we have to separate in order to give ourselves and proclaim what we have learned through Canonical year. Our experiences will take place in Egypt for Alejandra, in Tunisia for Clara and Rozeni, in Ecce Homo for Joey and in Ein Karem for Arlyne and me. I am helping some children teaching them Arabic and doing some handicrafts with them. For me just to be among children is great. Many things happened in the first week …