April 2, 2021: Making Sense of our Suffering with María Teresa (MT) Dávila
Preaching for Good Friday, María Teresa (MT) Dávila reflects on Christ, crucified and risen, reconciling our own individual and communal suffering:
"Surely the news of over 500,000 dead, the utterance of the words 'I Can’t Breath' by our African American brothers and sisters, the death of a Capitol guard during the insurrection in January, the death and suffering of our loved ones, our mothers, our aunts, our brothers, our friends, our lovers – these moments that center our histories, these too bring us to our knees. On Good Friday our being brought to our knees for what seems like every day of our existence finally begins to make sense, as the one who reconciles all in all also dies our death and breaths his last. May the entire story of creation, and all of our unique stories be reconciled in Jesus the Christ, crucified and risen."
María Teresa (MT) Dávila, visiting associate professor of practice at Merrimack College, is a scholar focusing on racial and migrant justice, public theology, and the ethics of the use of force. With Agnes Brazal, she is co-editor of Living With(out) Border: Theological Ethics and Peoples on the Move (Orbis Press, 2016). She is a regular contributor to “Theology en la Plaza”, National Catholic Reporter, the first Latin@ column in a national Catholic newspaper.
Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/04022021 to learn more about María Teresa (MT) Dávila, to read her text, and for more preaching from Catholic women.
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