Prayer for the Churchwomen of El Salvador December 2
READER: MS. JEAN DONOVAN, 27 YEARS OLD
READER: SR. MAURA CLARKE, 49 YEARS OLD
I love life, and I love living. While I feel compassion, and cry for the people here, I’m not up for suicide. Several times I have decided to leave. I almost could, except for the children— the poor bruised victims of adult lunacy. Who would care for them? Whose heart could be so staunch as to favor the reasonable thing in a sea of their tears and loneliness? Not mine, dear friend, not mine.
The endurance of the poor and their faith through this terrible pain is constantly pulling me to a deeper faith response.
All: We thank you, Lord, for Jean’s compassion
All: We thank you, Lord, for Maura’s courage.
READER: SR. DOROTHY KAZEL, 41 YEARS OLD
READER: SR. ITA FORD, 40 YEARS OLD
We talked quite a bit today about what happens if something begins.
I hope you can come to find that which gives life a deep meaning for you, something that energizes you, enthuses you, enables you to keep moving ahead.
And most of us feel that we would want to stay here – if there is a way we could help, like run a refugee center or something. We wouldn’t want to just run out on the people.
All: We thank you Lord, for Dorothy’s determination
My fear of death is being challenged constantly as children and old people are being shot, but I want to stay on. I believe that God is present in His seeming absence.
I can’t tell you what it might be. That is for you to find, to choose, to love. I can just encourage you to start looking…
All: We thank you, Lord, for Ita’s hope.