BLOG OF ELOY ROY - EVERYBODY GOES TO HEAVEN

  Photo Internet Running away from Honduras towards the USA For more than 60 years, we, the missionaries of the SME, have walked along with the people of Honduras. With a straw hat on our heads and a machete in our hands, we have walked at their side, riding on mules, by foot, by motorcycle, by jeep…In the oppressive heat, in spite of malaria, the amoeba, and other details, we have overcome the mountains, opened roads, built schools, dug water wells .  Through radio and other means, we have transmitted basic knowledge that allowed to shake fear, resignation, the feeling of helplessness. From the religious faith of that beloved people, a sincere faith but often paralyzing, we have made a motor of awakening, of hope and of dynamism so as to walk together towards a better world. We worked tirelessly at the formation of thousands of humble agents of social and ecclesial transformation. Some of us were at the heart of a movement that led a good number of families grap...

In his message for the World Youth Day 2013, Pope Francis enthusiastically told thousands of young people coming from all over the world: "BE TROUBLE MAKERS !" Now, he has just elevated to sainthood a bishop from Central America who, for sure, caused trouble even when he had against him two Popes and the majority of the fellow bishops of his country.         Canonization of Romero, the troublemaker     A good move     Romero who, from being a reactionary became a revolutionary, was declared a saint by pope Francis. A very good move, indeed! Romero actually was a saint of nonviolence and forgiveness, but above all, he was a saint of justice. He is among a few other saints the saint of the voiceless, a saint anti "establishment", a saint of the liberation of the oppressed, a saint who confronted identified oppressors with their machines of exploitation and destruction. Romero is a saint who inca...

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018   A STRING OF 17 SHORT MESSAGES Shadow Only in the light you may see the shadow but the light indeed does not create the shadow the night does not make the day life does not give birth to death myself I create the shadow when I block the sun Huge miracle While rushing towards self-destruction, we continue to grow in number, in knowledge and even in consciousness. Is it not a huge miracle? ...     The cross coolstuffontheinternet     The cross of Jesus is not about turning away from the Earth to chase after Heaven, nor choosing the divine by rejecting the humane; it's about becoming one with the two, as the boat is to the sail. Feet washing As if we were plants, Jesus leans over us and waters our feet so that  we grow in humanity. Maybe he would also like to shine our shoes as  the little lustrabotas of the South do, while he himself goes barefoot ...