Here's what the Catholic nuns have to say about our government during this Holy Week

[hatredisnotavalue]

The sisters at my daughter's Catholic college sent this out today:

Holy Week
The 5th. Station
Simon Helps Jesus carry His Cross

"As they led him away they took hold of a certain Simon, Cyrenian, who was coming from the country; after laying the cross on him, they made him carry it behind Jesus."


Message:
Simon: he's good, he's a simple country man, and he encounters something big, too big for him, and he is "pressed into service," made to participate in this thing he wasn't involved in. But he has to go along with it, because otherwise, they might kill him. There is a certain complacency here, a silent agreeing although many questions remain- this leads ultimately to the killing of an innocent man who is also the Son of God!
And how we go along!
We decide not to be involved in politics, to focus on our own daily lives instead. But this is impossible- to not be involved is impossible- because when we say nothing, we are really saying "yes."
Every day, new crosses are constructed for the people of the little countries, like Ecuador, by the foreign policy decisions made by our trusted leaders. Unchecked, so much can go wrong, and all of a sudden we realize that we've helped by our inattention and silence, to carry the cross to Golgotha and there will be a crucifixion soon.
we turn our eyes away from human rights violations, the starvation of billions, death from preventable diseases and
non-access to potable water.
We are Simons all the time, carrying crosses instead of asking questions, and it always leads to death.

WOW!

[Sanity Claws]

1. Glad to see that the Catholic Church is starting to wake up again

I remember the radical priests of the 1970s or so. John Paul II, though a good man in many ways, blocked priests and others in the Church from getting involved in these struggles.
This particular story is great. I had never given thought to this particular station of the cross before.

[hatredisnotavalue]

4. I know!

I do have to share with you that this college is in Boston, but I am just so proud that this is the message they are sending to their students.

[zanne]

2. These aren't the nuns who taught me in grade school.

This is the new, improved version!

[hatredisnotavalue]

5. I think so too!

I think the college sisters are a different group. But I am happy they are becoming vocal.

[otherlander]

3. I know this is a Lounge thread, but...

K&R! :bounce:

[hatredisnotavalue]

6. Thanks....:) but what's K&R? n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Kicked and recommended....

Lounge threads used to be eligible for the Greatest Page, but no more...

That feature was abused, and so we lost the privilege...

:cry:

[hatredisnotavalue]

8. Should I post this over in GD?

Will they eat me alive?

[LostinVA]

9. Some may, but ignore them if they do

I think this should be posted over there.

What order are the Sisters?

[Breeze54]

14. Why not?

I'd clean it up a bit though.

Write about your impression of what they said and then

include what the nuns said in the excerpt html code.

Use the HTML lookup table.

< div class = " excerpt " > < / div >

Get a link if you can and include it.

[Critters2]

10. What order are they? There are some orders where this wouldn't suprise me at all

A good many nuns participated in liberation movements in Latin America in the 80's and 90's. And too many lost their lives for it. With the complicity of the US Government.

[hatredisnotavalue]

11. Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11128b.htm

[hatredisnotavalue]

12. okay, i' m over in gd land right now... n/t

[Breeze54]

13. Isn't that always the Sisters stand?

It was when I was a kid, concerning the oppression of the poor and down trodden.

I like this phrase: "when we say nothing, we are really saying "yes."

How true!!

Makes me wonder why so many are speaking out against those that speak out for us!

:shrug:

[GenDem]

15. I work with a few nuns.

Sisters of Mercy. They have put up peace signs in the front yard of our school, and at their convent which is on Main Street in our little town. They are vehemently anti-war. In fact, they were the only people I could safely express my anti war stance to during the pre-war saber rattling days.

Their signs are big and shaped like a dove and they say "I leave Peace Prints".

[hippywife]

16. Lots of nuns

are really pro-peace, pro-human rights. Particularly the Benedictine sisters. Many have lost their lives in such places, caring for the poor and oppressed.