This is a video talking about a place called El Punto, which is now only a stage, but it’s in the preparation stages for creating a Church/Cultural Center/Mental Health Space specializing in grief and trauma. It’s pretty cool. This is where the Pope will celebrate mass, and it’s right at the border with El Paso, Texas, which you can see from there.
This is a story that is developing, and there are always second chances. Perhaps the violence was the shake up needed to wake people up to the depth of the tear in the Social Fabric. Rebuilding IS happening as we speak. I’ll say more on those initiatives in later posts.
In his address to the Bishops of Mexico, the pope spoke some hard truths. He spoke to them at the Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe. He broke down his speech in four sections each of them focusing on having a gaze like the one that God has on us, and which Our Lady of Guadalupe has on God’s people. He encouraged them to have a Gaze of Tenderness, a gaze that sews, an attentive and close gaze versus a dormant one, and a gaze of unity and unified vision.
