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Each month, an aspect of our reparative, Eucharistic charism will be explored. In October, the topic is our Eucharistic life, as lived in Villatina, Colombia. For our Sisters, offering Eucharistic bread cannot take place unless we also provide the daily bread of sustenance for our poor brothers and sisters.
From Monday to Saturday, we serve the bread which nourishes the body. On Sunday, those same tables are transformed into the big altar, a table for all, where the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of the Lord; we celebrate the Sunday Eucharist, the Paschal Mystery which makes us brothers and sisters, which tightens the bonds of friendship, which in turn teach us what the Eucharist is. We celebrate and adore the Eucharist. In our daily life, we try to live it. Our people here, who have very little religious formation, do not know the "theology" of the Eucharist. But, how many Eucharistic attitudes there are in our neighbors! The bowl of soup or the cup of "aguapanela" (a type of tea) taken to the old man who lives nearby, alone, and has nothing to eat. It is the neighbor who takes care of the children while the mother goes to work or to seek work. It is keeping the sick company. In this Eucharistic context, we intend to open our neighbors to reconciliation, that there may be forgiveness in this people, who many times live with resentment and the desire for vengeance. The children grow up in this way, breathing rancor, being defensive because they feel threatened by the environment, by society, by the system. Young people do not find any sense in life, they do not think about the future, they do not have opportunities to rise, to study, to work. Therefore we go to the Mystery of the Eucharist as light which teaches, as the force which gives impulse, as the motor of life, as a utopia of love. We live filled with hope, with trust in the merciful Heart of the Father, with the Eucharist, celebrated, adored, and live daily, which greater intensity, depth, and commitment. Clara Cavallazzi, acj
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Our apostolic work in
Villatina is around BREAD. We take care of a worship-dining space, in
which 150 children and 25 elderly persons eat breakfast and lunch each day.