"By Margery Eagan
"The day before Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley went on “60 Minutes” to
declare the Vatican investigation of American nuns “a disaster,” the woman who
once led those nuns, Joan Chittister, knocked it out of the park before 600 rapt
fans who packed the Wellesley College chapel Saturday."...
“The rising comes when we are able to commit our lives to
something worth being condemned for,” said Chittister, a Benedictine
nun....
Chittister told the women there: no matter how old or tired or
sick you are, decide what you can do in the time you have left, and do it.
“Choose what’s best in life over what is comfortable. Chose witness in life over
the country club scene … Find a purpose large enough on which to spend
yourselves. Torture, climate change, something that says, ‘my life isn’t over.
This is yet to be done.’ What will they remember about you when you’re gone?
What are you doing now that will not be forgotten? You can say, ‘Oh, I don’t go
to those rally things.’ Honey, I hope you remember that explanation when your
own property is under water.”
...Remember, she said as she ended to a prolonged standing
ovation, “These 14 stations are not about suffering, but about how to live
through suffering. They’re not about the death of Jesus, but about Jesus’ life
born in us to support us through our own death and
resurrection.
“We are not meant to be the people of the cross. We are people
of the empty tomb. We are alleluia people … And He is here, with us. Emmanuel,
Emmanuel.”
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