"A Pentecost Reflection" by First Roman Catholic Woman Priest from South America, Olga Lucia Alvarez, ARCWP

Translated from Spanish to English by Judy Lee, ARCWP

www.arcwp.org
http://evangelizadorasdelosapostoles.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/es-la-iglesia-un-agente-de-cambio/

Olga Lucia Alvarez is a Roman Catholic Woman Priest in Colombia

 

In her reflection Olga Lucia Alvarez (the first Roman Catholic Woman Priest in Colombia) is connecting Pentecost to the commissioning of all of the baptized and to the power of the Eucharist that is essential to our strength as a people who are agents of change, who live the reign of God and the divine in our humanity as Christ empowers us. She says without the Eucharist there is no justice or deep caring possible by us or through the church. She prays for the healing and the renewal of the church through the Eucharistic power of the Holy Spirit, wisdom Sophia this Pentecost.

Olga Lucia begins with the picture of our women priests baptizing a baby girl who is Aida's grand daughter.

Judy Lee, ARCWP baptizes Aida's grand daughter in Colombia, South America



 

Olga Lucia notes our jobs and the jobs of parents and grandparents a nd God parents to raise this child in a faith of love and justice. 
She then shows the community of Janice and Rosemarie at prayer and then shows excerpts from the life of Saint Laura, the first Colombian Saint to be canonized on Sunday past by Francis I. The point is, she notes, that the people of God are empowered with Pentecost power to create justice and wipe out poverty here and now.
What a wonderful sacramental meditation for all of us.
translated from Spanish by Judy Lee , ARCWP, www.arcwp.org
http://evangelizadorasdelosapostoles.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/es-la-iglesia-un-agente-de-cambio/