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<div><font size="4">This reflection is not exactly what Jim Wiegel is looking for but it will be in the Saipan Tribune Thursday, and might be of interest to some.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>Francis X. Hezel, SJ<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I listened to our Micronesian Jesuit at Charley's Cabaret
Tuesday night relate the beginnings of the Church in the Marianas. My Protestant colleagues will, of course,
argue that the Jesuit Father was referring to the Roman Catholic Church, which
to them is hardly "church".
Won't get into that debate. <i>Ecclesia, </i>the household of God, is a
very comprehensive category, not limited to the Christian understanding.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">In fact, the <i>Pinoy </i>"bahala
na" that fitted well to the Spanish sense of <i>que sera sera </i>(what will be, will be) was originally derived from a
providential reliance on "Bathala na" akin to the Islamic <i>Anshallah,</i> and my evangelical friends'
"God will provide".<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Pagan in Myanmar, and Pagan in the <i>Rafaluwasch </i>Northern Islands, are probably from the same language stream,
made a geographical term before our European colonizers turned them into hostile
or non-conversant infidels in the Christian belief system. This is not unlike the word "Asia",
its etymology derived from Europe's designation of the area beyond them to
mean, "that which is not Europe", the landmass from Asia Minor to the
Urals of the Tsar and east to the Pacific.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">We appreciated the Father's historical sense of balancing
the "violent conversion" (e.g., Hispanic Quiroga on the recalcitrant
locals), on the one hand, and the opposite notion that a stranded Choco (whose
ancestry might have traded with the islanders before Spain came) fanned the
rumor that the padres murdered children with their rites of baptism to eternal blessedness
with water that was allegedly poisonous.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Our Padre Hazel's historical sense walked us through the
Spanish mission's original intent to be a blessing more than a curse, and the observation
that the military would do more harm than good.
The tragic consequences of the gentle Fr. Vittores and 31 volunteers who
intended to bring the Christian mission in the manner that Europe understood pagan
islanders of the Pacific, ensued the "Spanish-Chamorro 30-year Culture War"
in historical accounts, two months after Padre Vittores made landing. Fr. Fran suggests that neither protoganist
side was singularly homogenous.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">A culture clash, written in a tract that revisits the
"Spanish Chamorro Wars", covered in the 700+ pages tome that Don
Farrell produced for PSS to update of the text we used in 6th grade class at
PSS' SVES. Don was in the audience along
with former members of the sponsoring Humanities Council Board who served when
I was a member, including <i>Refaluwasch </i>Lino
Olopai, legal luminary Robert Torres, NMC regent Elizabeth Rechebei, and the
ever-vivacious Lynn Tenorio. Current
NMHC executive director Scott Russell introduced Fr. Fran and Honora Tenoria
staffed the registration table.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Fr. Hezel met the faithful of the CK RC Wednesday. He explored with the faithful the theological
significance of the start of the mission, a direction I might have pushed
further had I the chance to ask Fr. Hezel to speak more as a creature of 2015
rather than as the distinguished MicroSem scholar poring over ancient documents. In fact, our reflection title is on the being
of the man rather of the roles he played and the litany of accomplishments in
his name.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">To ground us on the personal level, I met Fr. Fran in Truk
(now, Chuuk) more than 30 years ago when I was a member of the brief
development "blue shirts" in the Marshalls, at Xavier High School,
and had watched his scholarship unfold.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">As creatures of 2015, we partook of the what has since been
dubbed as the "earthrise consciousness", a consequence of the 1968 Apollo
photo of the earth rising on the lunar horizon, which addressed our separate
national and colonial identities into the unity of a global citizenship. An "earthbound commitment" followed
the consciousness that fueled such preoccupations as the health of the planet
in light of climate change, the balancing of the social process as economic
corporations make the political and cultural subservient to its monetary
allegiances, and profound humanness a willful option to everyone.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Theology is clothed in the metaphor of the eternal realm and
Ptolemaic storied cosmology rather the sociological reality of shrine-like
functions of skulls in many AustroPolynesian homes, to wit, it points to the
symbolic power of our innate human profundity, an other world in the midst of
this world, rather speculations of a world beyond this one from which we escape
with the help of a savior like Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, and the Papal <i>Laudato Si'</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">We had previous eras of giants; it is time to praise the
ordinary. Fran Hezel is in my list!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Thus, my push for profound humanness for those who deign to
choose, and not revert to the automatic mode of <i>bahala na, </i>the previous era's metaphors of transcendence,
immanence, and piety, notwithstanding<i>.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">OK, we've gone a little abstract here, and that's why the
physicality of a sandal-thong memory-challenged Jesuit before a Charley Cabaret
audience resonated authenticity more than all the angels in heaven, IMHO.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back on May 24 (my 70th birthday), Pope Francis
issued a letter (240 + paragraphs) not only to the 1.5 billion members of the
organization he heads, but also to the rest of us, asking us to consider the
situation on our planet, and what we bring and what we can do. ?In skimming
through the text, I really like the tone and the inclusiveness of it. ?Who would
think of writing something about climate change and using the word "Praise" in
the title?
Ellen Howie, Steve Harrington and I are organizing this study /
conversation. ?Won't you join us? ?We are planning a getting started session
either THIS WEDNESDAY or NEXT MONDAY.
Join us if you can.? Just
follow this link?An online conversation -- Laudato Si (Praise Be) Survey
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APPROACH TO THE STUDYInviting folks from any or all of the following
groups1. ?alive today and interested in what is going on here on Earth2.
?associated with Institutes of Cultural Affairs around the world, present and
past3. ?practicing and using ToP methods as facilitators, trainers or
champions4. ?friends and associates of any of us -- Ellen, Jim, Steve, or
YOU
Organize the time from now to the end of 2015 to go through the
encyclical.? There are 6 chapters, plus a beginniing introduction and a couple
of prayers and notes at the end.? We are suggesting the following:Focus one week
on each chapter, perhaps with an online session of an hour to an hour and a
half, either on Free Conference Call, Google Hangouts or Skype. ?One or two of
us would take each chapter (a partner would make it more interesting)Whoever was
doing the chapter would?????go through it and create and share online a visual
image of what is being said along with some guiding questions for a conversation
or dialogue or charting/study of that chapter? ? guide the online session
? ?
perhaps also be available a couple of times during "their" week via email or
twitter or phone for questions, conversations, tweeting, etc.
We are working
on the technology end: ?way to hold the weekly dialogues, share collaborative
documents, keep in contact, welcome broader participation
Simple visuals,
lively questions, collegial dialogue.? Join us. ?
Praise be!
Jim Wiegel
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?If you want an adventure . . . what a time to be alive!?. Joanna Macy
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Upcoming ToP
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More info on:
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The AZ ToP? Community of Practice meets the 1st Friday, of every month,
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