Remembered Suffering

9/10/24 -- One Day before the Apache Stronghold submitted their appeal to the Supreme Court to protect their religion and Oak Flat from destruction (Washington, DC)

We have so much to learn from our Apache Stronghold relatives who invite us alongside of them on our own personal journey to our Sacred Unity. The reflection below came after Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr.'s video shoot with NBC and Notre Dame's Law School where he encountered up close the U.S. Flag flying over this country's places of "power" – the Capitol, the Whitehouse, and the Supreme Court – remembering both the suffering of his people and the resilience and courage that brings him here to this moment.

"Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering." – Johann Baptist Metz, German Catholic Theologian

Press Release by Apache Stronghold (9/10/2024) http://users.neo.registeredsite.com/8/3/2/11897238/assets/ASSeptember_102024.pdf

"A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — what gospel is that?" – Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador

“The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.” – Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian Catholic Theologian and Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Theology at University of Notre Dame