A People Discover Their Church
February 10, 2008
A wonderful story out of LA about a priest inviting the neighborhood to own the parish. These are the results.
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A Guatemalan group at the church commissioned a statue of the Black Christ of Esquipulas. The Black Christ is both a national and religious icon for Guatemala and a symbol for Indians from southern Mexico.
Measuring almost 9 feet tall, the black wooden statue of Jesus on the cross was transported across two borders — without proper documentation identifying it as a replica. It is now known by congregants as the Cristo Mojado.
“The Christ had no papers,” said Guillermo Palencia, an Esquipulas organizer at St. Cecilia’s. “Like many of us, it came across illegally.”
Great!
This was a great read after returning from a nearby parish that is, sadly, dead as a doornail.
I hope that this is simply a forerunner of a laity that is no longer willing to sacrifice eucharist and community on the false altar of mandatory clerical celibacy.
It is time that this church is resurrected so that it can help us all on our journey to the eschaton. When rules and disciplines result in results that are inimical to the life of the church, said rules and disciplines become occasions of sin.