Reflection at the End of the Year.

At the end of each year, at Crisitianisme i Justicia we try to reflect on the present moment with the goal of pointing out some possible lines of thought that can act as suggestions for the construction of a new future. If we look at the world in its complexity (wars, violence, shared struggles, joys, etc.), we discover that we are witnesses to hope as well as witnesses to suffering. For every social achievement and each joyous celebration there is a faceless human being who cries on the margin of an unjust system. However, both history and faith teach us that these lives and these unjust realities can also be transformed in the here and now. Allying ourselves with the way that is incarnated by God in Jesus, we have decided to begin here with the Word (Jn1), the Word that was at the beginning and that is incarnated afterwards to give life, and life in abundance (Jn 10:10). We are assuming the responsibility of recovering that life-giving Word as the starting point for transforming, for touching hearts and for nourishing at their roots the social struggles for a more inclusive citizenship, for the strengthening of communities, for the end to inequality. Along these lines, the proposal that we launch today for the future is entwined with faithfulness to the words, and it is for this reason that we outline an incomplete and unique glossary. It is incomplete because all the words are not there since there are missing some as important as freedom, justice, spirituality. It is unique because this glossary, which is born from and is built upon faith and the Scriptures, comes pregnant with meaning, an authentic meaning from which it IS possible to sustain life, living together, and dignity. Getting to the bottom of the question, this exercise in sociopolitical imagination arises from the will to recover and rescue some words from being held hostage and from the twisted appropriation that is given to them by post-Fascism.1 Facing this affront, our little dictionary tries to drag into the light the feelings forgotten by those of us who serve everyone in our shared journey toward global justice.

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