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By Sr. Veronica Skillin, SND
Following is a portion of a homily given on the occasion of the 2010 Jubilee Celebration for 17 Sisters.
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By Sr. Veronica Skillin, SND
Following is a portion of a homily given on the occasion of the 2010 Jubilee Celebration for 17 Sisters.
Today we frequently use "heart" to signify the essence of a person. We know what we mean when we say "soft-hearted," "broken-hearted" and "hard-hearted," but what about a heart "wide as the world"?? "Wide hearted?" These words seem to imply numerous opportunities to encounter more, to love more, to be wounded more...and so it is. These Sisters know children, women and men who suffer injustices, are scarred by discrimination, endure life without shelter, food and security and are wounded in body and soul. Yet these Sisters--with wide hearts--continue to live and work in hope. Their hearts have seen evidence of God's goodness in the wonders of nature's startling beauty, in the astounding expanse of technology, in other men and women working for peace and unity, and in knowing witnesses to justice, like Oscar Romero and Dorothy Stang.