1. Twilight before sunrise, dim and diffuse light 2. The first glow of light before the sun appears above the horizon 3. We are walking in the dawn of Humanity, in the dawn of Life
Our job is to try to be a point of orientation. It is not to try to have a balanced position, because there are issues where we clearly put words to what happens. Now, clearly, we needed to be able to say, and we have maintained, and we have been right to do so, that […]
To all Palestinian women fighting against the occupation and who would like to have a place in Palestinian society, to our women who celebrate 8 March with tears, blood and resistance, but above all with hope. In you was our knowledge born. In you all our hope sings. Our future is built by you. Because […]
“That’s the way it is” we say, not knowing if we mean a realistic lucidity or a defeatist abandonment. That’s the way it is, and anything else is not possible. That’s the way it is, and it is impossible to stand up, wait, breathe, hope, create: to be or to make being more. What is […]
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Yesterday, April 12, at the age of 88, Monsignor Gaillot, Bishop of Evreux (France) from 1982 to 1995, died. He was a peaceful and energetic man, passionate about justice for all the excluded, a prophet of the Good News of Jesus, of a fraternal world, of a human Church. He supported conscientious objection against military […]
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Holy Week could make sense even for those who do not share the Christian myth, if it were a vindication, not of the brutal death of a single man two thousand years ago, but of the violated dignity of all those who were then victims of the viciousness of power, including those crucified with Jesus […]
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Pope Nicholas V granted “full and free permission” to the Portuguese Crown to “capture and subjugate Saracens and pagans” in its African expansion (Bull Dum Diversas, 1452). Alexander VI Borgia blessed the arrival of the Spaniards in America and stipulated the division of dominions between Castile and Portugal (Bull Inter Caetera, 1493). These and other […]
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“Take your hands off the Democratic Republic of Congo, do not touch Africa. Stop suffocating it, because Africa is not a mine to be exploited or a land to be plundered. Let Africa be the protagonist of its own destiny.” “The poison of greed has bloodied its diamonds.” “We cannot get used to the blood […]
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People go to their temples to greet Me… How simple and ignorant are My children who think that I live in isolation. Why don’t they come and greet Me in the procession of life, where I always live, in the farms, the factories, and the market, where I encourage those who earn their living by […]
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Life consists in opening cracks until finally understanding that that was the way to follow. And then I am again surprised by the capacity of life to find loopholes to let me continue creating. This is something that stuns me, as someone who well understands that life surpasses us and is beyond and above everything […]
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One hand on the beauty of the world. The other one on the suffering of the people. Both feet jumping from the task to the party. And the heart on fire. (Matxalen Ojanguren Alonso) In the weakness of the human our deepest truth is revealed, because the heartbeat of the world is its frailty. (Pepa […]
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The greatest risque
/in Dawns /by José ArregiOur job is to try to be a point of orientation. It is not to try to have a balanced position, because there are issues where we clearly put words to what happens. Now, clearly, we needed to be able to say, and we have maintained, and we have been right to do so, that […]
The Palestinian woman, the future of Palestine
/in Dawns /by José ArregiTo all Palestinian women fighting against the occupation and who would like to have a place in Palestinian society, to our women who celebrate 8 March with tears, blood and resistance, but above all with hope. In you was our knowledge born. In you all our hope sings. Our future is built by you. Because […]
The possible and the impossible
/in Dawns, Reflections, Witnesses to Light /by José Arregi“That’s the way it is” we say, not knowing if we mean a realistic lucidity or a defeatist abandonment. That’s the way it is, and anything else is not possible. That’s the way it is, and it is impossible to stand up, wait, breathe, hope, create: to be or to make being more. What is […]
In memory of Jacques Gaillot, Bishop of the Excluded
/in Dawns, Witnesses to Light /by José ArregiYesterday, April 12, at the age of 88, Monsignor Gaillot, Bishop of Evreux (France) from 1982 to 1995, died. He was a peaceful and energetic man, passionate about justice for all the excluded, a prophet of the Good News of Jesus, of a fraternal world, of a human Church. He supported conscientious objection against military […]
Holy Week could make sense for non-Christians
/in Dawns /by José ArregiHoly Week could make sense even for those who do not share the Christian myth, if it were a vindication, not of the brutal death of a single man two thousand years ago, but of the violated dignity of all those who were then victims of the viciousness of power, including those crucified with Jesus […]
The Vatican disavows the “Doctrine of Discovery” against the Indians
/in Dawns /by José ArregiPope Nicholas V granted “full and free permission” to the Portuguese Crown to “capture and subjugate Saracens and pagans” in its African expansion (Bull Dum Diversas, 1452). Alexander VI Borgia blessed the arrival of the Spaniards in America and stipulated the division of dominions between Castile and Portugal (Bull Inter Caetera, 1493). These and other […]
Pope Francis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
/in Dawns /by José Arregi“Take your hands off the Democratic Republic of Congo, do not touch Africa. Stop suffocating it, because Africa is not a mine to be exploited or a land to be plundered. Let Africa be the protagonist of its own destiny.” “The poison of greed has bloodied its diamonds.” “We cannot get used to the blood […]
People go to their temples
/in Dawns /by José ArregiPeople go to their temples to greet Me… How simple and ignorant are My children who think that I live in isolation. Why don’t they come and greet Me in the procession of life, where I always live, in the farms, the factories, and the market, where I encourage those who earn their living by […]
Penetrating the crevices of life
/in Dawns /by José ArregiLife consists in opening cracks until finally understanding that that was the way to follow. And then I am again surprised by the capacity of life to find loopholes to let me continue creating. This is something that stuns me, as someone who well understands that life surpasses us and is beyond and above everything […]
The power of the frail
/in Dawns /by José ArregiOne hand on the beauty of the world. The other one on the suffering of the people. Both feet jumping from the task to the party. And the heart on fire. (Matxalen Ojanguren Alonso) In the weakness of the human our deepest truth is revealed, because the heartbeat of the world is its frailty. (Pepa […]