Hello, faithful followers,
Life has been happenning:
Thanksgiving with Aura and some friends at our new home: invited friends and my old young friend, Marita LaPalm...
10 days ago down in Williamsburg, VA, where the first pilgrims arrived in the early 1600, looking for religious freedom and prosperity; at that time those white folks did not consider the Indians of much importance save to hand over their lands, and those black people were brought in to cultivate tobacco...Catholics were hardly welcome as they could be seditious...It was our old original sin, love and peace but not towards all...
Maciel did get it right when he taught "Delicate and Universal Charity...-but then kind of screwed up when he added - towards members and outsiders"...
We keep discriminating, being biased and prejudiced, something in the name of the God who created us all.. equal...
The place that gives a more balanced view of how it was back in the day is the Virginia State park at Jamestown which describes the plight of the Indians and the Blacks, the two non entities of the day...the story also says that Catholics were frowned upon and seen with suspicion...
