The Sister Lorenza López shares her experience in Tangier with us.
❤ Integration into a very varied group: it has required personal dispossession and security to embrace what is different in each one, constituting a new group during these 15 days. For me, encountering the difference has meant consolidating myself more in who I am and feeling proud of my being in HCR... The entire group has followed the most important moments of the Chapter.
❤ The group has started every morning with a shared prayer. It has been the Word of God written thousands of years ago incarnated today, here, now, in concrete faces.
I came with the idea of doing, doing many tasks, however, being present has prevailed, being present at every moment to what was offered to us as an opportunity.
The encounter with people with names and faces who have crossed the desert, many borders.
Personally, I have had the opportunity to know Fatou in depth and we have shared her painful journey. With this 39-year-old young woman whom I wanted to instruct by talking about diseases and how to prevent them, she has instructed me, she has opened my heart to enter this world of immigration.
We have occupied the mornings with the task entrusted to each one. The afternoons were spent visiting the religious communities present in Tangier where they shared with us the mission they carry out.
We have had a formal meeting with the Archbishop of Tangier and other meetings participating in the Eucharist in the afternoons.
We have visited the Anglican Church, the Synagogue, in each meeting there was an opportunity to create communion.
❤ We have learned up close what it means to be a Christian in an unfavorable environment. This is how Nordin has shared with us closely his conversion process, the beatings he received until he lost an ear, abandonment of his family and not being able to be free to live his convictions.
❤ We have visited Tangier, a very beautiful city, in our free time.
In the group coexistence we have each shared our experience:
- Experience for my Intercongregational, which confirms to me that we have to be open to those new paths that can be presented to us HCR today, being brave, losing fears, in the encounter with difference.
- The Charisma received a Gift for the Church placed at the service of Humanity.
- Inter-ecclesial experience losing fear in walking with others.
