PAROQUIA – Nssa. Sra. Do Rosário
Residência Nssa. Sra. de Fátima 24 February, 2016 XLVI:1
Trav. Carlos Portes, 171
62.900-000 Russas, Ceará e-mail: [email protected]
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Dear Friends, Benefactors, Collaborators, Family, and Colleagues:
“Cancellation” is one of a number of sobering words. It indicates an end, term or completion, loss of function, usually in sadness, suggesting relief at best, seldom associated with joy. A cancelled order becomes null. A cancelled seal or stamp may be collectible but the original function to verify has ended.
Various disciplines and careers use cancellation in distinct application. A cancelled class, lecture or debate may bring a sigh of relief, but the educational dynamic is altered. A cancelled trial or experiment may eliminate tension, but the problem in question remains unresolved.
Cancellations in nature can be especially subtle, hardly perceived as they begin or even progress; yet profound, sometimes irreversible in their effects. Cancelled digestive functions can lead to malnutrition, even starvation and death. Cancelled skeletal structure can lead to physical collapse, even breakage. Cancelled neural functions can lead to dementia or mental collapse. Cancelled reproductive functions can lead to sterility on an individual and collective level; even population crash and extinction in plants, animals and humans. Such cancellations present distinct questions usually in a multi-generational sequence. Dynamics of Creation can revert to a basic or ground state. The researcher, intellectual and prophet may recognize and fortell them, but a day-to-day navigator hardly perceives them until their depth seems abysmal. By then only brute discipline can restore the agronomic, selvic, social and ambiental health that stewardship demands.
Cancelled sacramental functions can lead to spiritual regression, closure and pagan ritual where individuals and even entire groups exist merely for immediate pleasure or security with little concern beyond one’s self. Transcendental cancellation is uniquely insidious, completely grounded in deceit and confusion. Such spiritual cancellation crushed us through the fall of our first parents. We wallowed in the “ground state of evil” unable to exit on our own in the face of that evil, itself a cancellation of life, requiring a resurgence of body and spirit. In the “fullness of time” our Redeemer arrived. In one solid intense strike He conquered evil; cancelled it.
We celebrate that conquest with distinct intensity during the Quaresmal-Pascal season, with humble contrition and sober celebration in Communion with each other and with Jesus Christ, the Redeemer. Join us in this Communion iff you wish with a healthy penance and solid conversion; life that is redeemed in Salvation.
Have a most BLESSED LENTEN-EASTER Season!
Gratefully in Jesus Christ
Ed Benya, S.J.