Month: September 2015

Apostolic Experience at Ein Karem

“It is easy to carry Jesus in the chest; the hard part is having chest courage to follow Jesus”. says Pedro Casaldáliga It is time to be in my own sandals and to continue proclaiming God’s word through my wonderful experience in Ein Karem Community. What can I proclaim after this year of learning and deepening my inner source? We, the Sisters of Sion, Contemplative and Apostolic, the Brothers of Sion and the Associates, welcome the people from different parts of the world and especially the local ones from Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ashdod, etc. People who want to appreciate the peacefulness and the great scenery of our home, the guest house. 154 years ago one of our founders opened our first house. We began this ministry then and we are still going on with it. It is through this unique experience that I can make God’s love keep burning through the hospitality, the warmth welcome and especially the respect of different cultures and religions. I am also able to integrate myself well into the simplicity …

Oswiecim

European Workshop on dealing with the past of Auschwitz. Held at the Center for dialogue and prayer in “Oswiecim” dialogue… or perhaps silence and listening “At the threshold of Auschwitz” I don’t know how can I explain my feeling? When I started to study and to know more about Auschwitz I felt so sad, I cried and was silent, I couldn’t speak. I was just listing to other people who gave us lectures. I had the chance to see and to hear the stories of some of the survivors from Auschwitz. When I went with the group to see the camp of Auschwitz and of Birkenau, I couldn’t imagine that so many people were killed, and how many million were in these camps. It was a terrible place because in every direction it was closed in, and that is why the people couldn’t escape from that place. I felt so sorry for the children and the people who were inside because if I tried to imagine myself with them in the camp I think I …

Pilgrimage to Czestochowa

My name is Alejandra and I am from Guatemala. I am a novice and, for the moment, living in Krakow for my apostolic experience with three sisters, Ania from Poland, Anne Denise from France and Victoria from Egypt. I have been in Krakow since July 3rd 2015 and I will be here for five months. I would like to share my experience of the pilgrimage to Czestochowa, two hundred kilometers from Krakow. This pilgrimage is organized in Krakow by the Dominican Priests who started it 24 years ago. Two thousand people were walking, in groups of two hundred, young people, handicapped, families and children. This seven days pilgrimage started on Monday 3rd and finished on Sunday 9th, August 2015. We walked 30 kilometers a day. Why did I go on this pilgrimage? I went on it because sister Ania invited us. The first day was not very tiring but the second and the third were very hard because as it is not so easy to walk 30 kilometers with 37 degrees of temperature. I said …