Easter Message from Dr. Jeanette Rodriguez, ICTC Executive Director
How does it help to maintain a state of peace when we are locked in a world of deep-seated conflict and violence that allows unnecessary, and what appears sometimes to be, un-redemptive suffering?
The eyes of faith offer us metanoia; new eyes to see creation, to participate in a new reality, and to celebrate the incarnation of Christ risen, fully human, holy God among us.
Still, sometimes I feel that my faith is fragile.
And so I look to my community to help me...
Signs of the Times
For the second year in a row, Easter, Passover, and Ramadan overlap (read more here); it will be more than thirty years before this happens again! We wish our Christian, Jewish and Muslim colleagues and friends peace, love, and joy as you celebrate this holy season.
- The Hope Border Institute's Frontera Dispatch: Take accountability for the 39 individuals who died last week at a Mexican immigration detention center, and more of the week's top stories from the border (4/4)
- April 4, 2023 was the 55th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968.
- What can Catholic social teaching contribute to the conversation about work? (NCR, 4/3)
- Pope calls for Indigenous quotas in world's legislatures (NCR, 4/3)
- Pope Francis, out of hospital, presides at Palm Sunday celebration (America, 4/2)
- March 31 was Cesar Chavez Day - it is a U.S. federal commemorative holiday, proclaimed by President Barack Obama in 2014. The holiday celebrates the birth and legacy of the civil rights and labor movement activist Cesar Chavez on March 31 every year.
- The Feast of St. Oscar Romero was March 24. Oscar Romero and the Communion of the Saints by Scott Wright beautifully illustrates the life and work of Fr. Romero.
- Gospel nonviolence for a Laudato Si’ future (Pax Christi International, 3/7)