"Words from Guatemala"
Sister Parish Delegates
Sunday, June 29th 2007

By Juan Carlos Lopez

The kingdom of resurrected Jesus is not from this world. In order to be able to build the kingdom of Jesus in our world we have to see everybody the way God sees us, as hammers, saws or sand paper… he sees all of us as brothers and sisters.

God works with us, with our gifts, so we as community must discover in each one of us all the gifts that we have, in order to be able to build the kingdom of resurrected Jesus here on earth.

As the carpenter of Nazareth worked with the gifts of all the tools, Jesus works with all our gifts and doesn’t pay attention to our defects.

At times any of us could be a hammer. I had been a hammer, how ? You may ask yourself. Well, when with a bad look I hurt my brothers feelings. Or when with a rejection I hurt the most sacred that God has given me: my wife, kids and parents. This history teach us to stop hurting the people.

If we ever are hammers again, let’s be hammers only to pound the injustices and evil in the world.

Thank you


By Alba Rivera

When we fall in love with the love of God, this love makes us fight for peace and justice, so that our brothers and sisters who are suffering any kind of injustice can really feel the value they have to our eyes.

At the carpentry shop all of them were different but each one of them had their gifts. So, let’s think for a minute, with which tool do I identify? How can I work for a better world? If you are young and haven’t started to work for a better world, what are you waiting for? This is the best time to start. That is what God wants from you and from me.

We have to be all one in love, and we must work together. It does not matter the place where you are at, you can talk with God everywhere, like in your car for example. So you can ask God that more and more people will work for a better world, together, as one big family, just as they did at the carpentry shop. May God bless each one of you.


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