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16
MAR
2018

Sr Liliana OP, Tucuman Congregation, pays tribute for our 50 years of mission in Argentina

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“and we still follow your path…”

“Y aún seguimos en tu camino…”

On Saturday 24th February, Alicia, Antonia, Eugenia and myself, Liliana, participated in the thanksgiving celebration for the 50 years of mission in Argentina of our Irish Dominican sisters: women attentive to the Spirit and to the suffering of those around them. It was held in a barrio called “Cuartel V”, Moreno, Buenos Aires, in the Parish “Santa Brígida”. A simple, symbolic meaningful celebration. A lot of participation of people from the barrios where the sisters had served or still live in. Every face, the words and attitudes of the people shone with joy and gratitude. One could perceive the fecundity of the Sisters’ presence and action. The seed had borne fruit.
50 years, a mere slice of time in a history that speaks to us of gospel awareness, and as Mary O Byrne writes in her book, it reveals “the effort of a group of women alert to the suffering of humankind, working to improve the quality of life of the people who live around them”. ”
50 years of a journey; 50 years of preaching in season and out of season; 50 years of presence, mission and dedication. “ journeying together…” “Like strands in a tapestry”

by Hna Liliana Badaloni Hermanas Dominicas de Tucumán.

We were witnesses to the movement of 50 years of an awakening, product of the penetration of the Spirit in history through Vatican 11, translated for Latin America by the documents of Medellín and Puebla. That Spirit that moved hearts in the second half of the twentieth century and opened up new paths for our consecrated life.

It was a day of joy, of sisterly and fraternal meetings, that helped us to revive our memories, look back on the past and thank the Divine Mystery for her presence among us. We also could see very clearly the inexorable traces that time leaves on human beings in its passing.
The Irish Dominicans celebrate 50 years of accepting a challenge “ the preferential option for the poor”, as the Puebla document states, that once assumed and incarnated enriched their lives, transforming their way of praying, making their community life more authentic, concretizing friendship, sincerity, all of these experiences that aid human maturity and therefore evangelical maturity. Their lives today are the result of the impact made on them by living close to “ordinary people”, for they were open to it, for they allowed it.
They have walked for 50 years in Argentina growing in the awareness that option for the poorest and most oppressed in Latin America implied that whatever was happening in the context where the sisters lived would affect their community life and that they would be changed by it. And they were changed and so was their Congregation.

The 50 years of history let them discover what exists beyond the reality that surrounds us and that unveils what others have shaped in the world we live in: the situation manifests that political and economic decisions made by those who hold power, determine in many ways out world, a country, a region…

They are celebrating 50 years of listening and responding; 50 years in which change impacted on their lives and on their congregation. A period in which following on intricate discernment, being open to adaptation in each one of them, and not one was closed to the proposal of doing what was different. Often their journey was marked by uncertainty in their choices in which a lot of insecurity operated; they allowed time to tell how things would work out, allowing the Spirit to work in many circumstances that were without clear ideas, and often a lot of suffering. The history of women who were valiant in their options, in their searching, attempts, not without difficulties and human weaknesses. It is a history of fidelity without losing the first love, in which mysticism and prophecy were united, accompanying our people in their martyrdom and in their joy.”

Thank you, Sisters!

Hna. Liliana Badaloni
Hermanas Dominicas de Tucumán

 

El sábado 24 de febrero, Alicia, Antonia, Eugenia y la que suscribe: Liliana, participamos en la celebración de acción de gracias por los 50 años de misión en Argentina de nuestras Hermanas Dominicas Irlandesas: mujeres atentas al Espíritu y al sufrimiento de quienes las rodean. Fue en el Barrio llamado “Cuartel V”, Moreno, Buenos Aires, en la Parroquia “Santa Brígida”.
Celebración sencilla, simbólica, significativa. Con mucha participación de la gente de los barrios por donde ellas pasaron y viven actualmente. Se percibía alegría y agradecimiento en los rostros, las palabras y las actitudes de la gente. Se podía palpar la fecundidad del caminar de las Hermanas. La semilla había dado su fruto

50 años, un trozo de tiempo en la historia que nos habla de conciencia evangélica, y como expresa Mery en su libro, dicen “del empeño de un grupo de mujeres alertas ante el sufrimiento de la humanidad, trabajando para mejorar la calidad de vida de la gente que vive a su alrededor”
50 años de camino; 50 años de predicación a tiempo y a destiempo; 50 años de presencia, misión y entregas, “…andando caminos juntas…”, “Como hebras en un Tapíz”.
Vivenciamos el recorrido de 50 años de un despertar, producto de la penetración del Espíritu en la historia por la mediación del Vaticano II, traducido para América latina por los documentos de Medellín y de Puebla. Ese Espíritu que fue moviendo corazones en la segunda mitad del siglo XX y abriendo caminos nuevos para nuestra Vida Consagrada.
Jornada de alegría, de re-encuentros sororiales y fraternales, que nos permitió activar la memoria, mirar el camino recorrido y agradecer al Dios Misterio su presencia entre nosotras, además de percibir, fuertemente, las inexorables marcas que el tiempo en su transcurrir deja en los seres humanos.
Las Dominicas Irlandesas celebran 50 años desde la aceptación de un desafío: “la opción preferencial por los pobres”, como expresa el documento de Puebla, que asumido y encarnado, fue fecundando sus vidas, transformando su modo de orar; haciendo más auténtica su vida en Comunid
ad, concretando la amistad; la sinceridad; vivencias todas que favorecieron la madurez humana y por ende la madurez evangélica. Sus vidas hoy son resultado del impacto que la vivencia de la “gente común” dejó en ellas, porque se dispusieron a ello, porque lo permitieron.
Han caminado 50 años por Argentina creciendo en la conciencia de que la opción de dedicarse a los más pobres y oprimidos de América Latina, contenía la implicancia de que lo que sucede en el contexto en que viven las Hermanas, afectaba también a la vida de Comunidad y de que a partir de ese momento, no serían las mismas.
Y no fueron las mismas, ni ellas ni su Congregación.

Una historia de 50 años que les permitió descubrir lo que existe más allá de la realidad que nos rodea y que devela lo que otros han esculpido en el mundo en que vivimos: la situación manifiesta que las decisiones políticas y económicas de los que detentan el poder modelan de muchas maneras nuestro mundo; un país; una región,…
Celebran 50 años de escucha y respuestas; 50 años en el que el cambio impactó en sus vidas y en la vida de su Congregación. Tiempo en el que, después de intrincados discernimientos, la apertura para la adaptación, en cada una de ellas, no se cerró a las propuestas de lo diferente. Camino en el que muchas veces la incertidumbre acompañaba los pasos; en el que sin mucha seguridad obraban, permitiéndole al tiempo hacer lo suyo, dejando que el Espíritu obre, en muchas circunstancias sin ideas tan claras, y en circunstancias con mucho sufrimiento. Historia de mujeres valientes en sus opciones, historia de búsquedas, de tanteos, de un caminar con muchas dificultades y flaquezas humanas. Una historia de fidelidades, “sin perder el amor primero, en la que unieron mística y profecía, acompañando a nuestro pueblo en su martirio y en su alegría”.
¡Gracias Hermanas!

Hna. Liliana Badaloni

Hermanas Dominicas de Tucumán

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