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I am doctor in Education with a major in Critical Pedagogy and a minor in women studies.I have a master degree in Regional Integration Process, which has provided the foundation for my work as an international consultant working in developing projects in and for rural communities ( e.g Costa Rica, but also other such as Nicaragua, Honduras,Spain, Belgium, Germany). Issues of Social Justice, race, gender, equity and equality are central to my being, and I utilize these as the core of my teaching in Multicultural Education at NMSU. I am friendly and respectful. I love traveling, experiencing new cultures and meeting people around the globe. I love music; I come from a musician family. I love photography and cooking also. I am also the proud mother of a daughter, Maria Gabriela.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Iglesia Católica: Un gran negocio en faldas


Entre mi día tan ocupado no puedo dejar de hacer un comentario. Dicen que el calla otorga, y a nivel teórico el silencio es herramienta que los grupos de poder utilizan en nuestra contra asi que ahí voy … nuevamente!
Como a todos ustedes me súper llama la atención todo el alboroto de la elección del nuevo  “Santo Papa”. Ha sido todo un evento, millones de ojos puestos en ese balcón a  la espera de quien rigira la iglesia católica y al que muchos idolatran como al mismo Jesucristo.




Me parece increíble que en el siglo y año en que estamos, la gente todavía se deje embelesar por el “hombre” que igual que usted o yo, no esta libre de pecado. Pero eso no es lo malo, bien dice la palabra que no es el salvo quien necesita de llegar a los pies, sino el pecador, así que estamos en el mismo barco todos.

Ahora lo que si me súper sorprende es que personas que se consideran súper religiosas dentro de la iglesia católica pareciera que se ciegan ante semejante acontecimiento y pierden de vista lo que la “palabra de Dios manda” Ahora bien, me pregunto si no leeremos la misma biblia?, o será que entonces más bien tan afanados están en tocar estatuas, e idolatrar al "Santo Papa", que se han olvidado de cosas fundamentales que la biblia ordena hacer a los hombres en nombre de Dios.

Solo en fe, los que nos consideramos cristianos( que significa seguidores de Cristo), podemos confiar en lo que la biblia dice, pues igual fue escrita por hombres, mortales como usted y como yo. Por eso digo, es un acto de fe no cuestionar la palabra de Dios. En eso podría decirse que quiera apoyarme para defender esta tesis que ha surgido en un momento de loca reflexión.
Veamos algunos pasajes biblicos:
Isaías 44
9 Los formadores de imágenes de talla, todos ellos son vanidad,
y lo más precioso de ellos para nada es útil;
y ellos mismos son testigos para su confusión,
de que los ídolos no ven ni entienden.
10 ¿Quién formó un dios, o quién fundió una imagen
que para nada es de provecho?
11 He aquí que todos los suyos serán avergonzados,
porque los artífices mismos son hombres.
Todos ellos se juntarán, se presentarán, se asombrarán,
y serán avergonzados a una.
46:7 Se lo echan sobre los hombros, lo llevan,
y lo colocan en su lugar; allí se está, y no se mueve de su sitio.
Le gritan, y tampoco responde, ni libra de la tribulación.


9 Acordaos de las cosas pasadas desde los tiempos antiguos;
porque yo soy Dios, y no hay otro Dios,
y nada hay semejante a mí.
Éxodo20
3 No tendrás dioses ajenos delante de mí.
4 No te harás imagen, ni ninguna semejanza
de lo que esté arriba en el cielo, ni abajo en la tierra,
ni en las aguas debajo de la tierra.
5 No te inclinarás a ellas, ni las honrarás;
porque yo soy Jehová tu Dios, fuerte, celoso,
que visito la maldad de los padres sobre los hijos
hasta la tercera y cuarta generación de los que me aborrecen,
6 y hago misericordia a millares, a los que me aman y guardan mis mandamientos.

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Más clara ni el agua, no se deben adorar imágenes, ni nada creado por nosotros mismos
1Timoteo2
5 Porque hay un solo Dios,
y un solo mediador entre Dios
y los hombres, Jesucristo hombre,

6 el cual se dio a sí mismo en rescate por todos,
de lo cual se dio testimonio a su debido tiempo.



Basada en la palabra de Dios, nosotros en la tierra no debemos rendir pleitesía ni a imagen creada ni a hombre por que el único y verdadero camino de llegar al Padre es mediante el hijo JESUCRISTO.
Que parte los católicos y otros seguidores de hombres NO ENTIENDEN de 1 Timoteo?, si esta súper claro, entonces no me explico cómo miles de seguidores rinden pleitesía a un hombre en la tierra. ¿Acaso no leemos y respetamos la misma biblia,--al menos los Cristianos--?

Una iglesia católica llena de corrupción, pederastas y millones de euros al servicio de sus propios intereses, no está claro que esta es solo una institución con gran poder que no sigue en lo más mínimo lo que Jesucristo nos enseñó. Donde está la consideración al necesitado? cuando con el dinero de sus arcas  podrían resolver los problemas del hambre en el mundo? Dónde está el ayuno para calmar el dolor de tantos alrededor del mundo, cuando comen en sus vajillas de plata los mejores manjares? Dónde está la trasparencia y cercanía al Padre cuando comenten los actos más bajos y deshonestos matando la ilusión de niños inocentes robándoles su pureza.

Esta jerarquía eclesiástica está muy, pero muy lejos del mandato Divino. Bendito mi Dios, ese al que alabo cada día directamente, sin intermediarios,  que en el juicio final nos ha de juzgar a todos. Hoy muchos pederastas se esconden bajo las faltas de sus trajes en el vaticano, pero en el juicio final, no habrá lugar para esconderse.
Mi llamado no es a juzgar “pues tire la primer piedra quien esté libre de pecado” y esa no soy yo definitivamente; sin embargo, es un llamado a acercarse al verdadero significado del Cristianismo, y es abrir los ojos ante la necesidad del menos privilegiado y de una vez por todas, dejar de idolatrar instituciones de poder.
  Por que si no hablamos y manifestamos las injusticias en la tierra, seremos cómplices y algún día daremos cuenta por nuestro silencio!



4 comments:

  1. Hello my friend :) I am commenting on your post for two reasons: 1.) your time, consideration, and effort deserve recognition-- You are an amazing woman; 2.) I am Catholic and the questions you have posed, have caused me to question my own faith from time to time. Here are my humble thoughts...

    It is important to understand that Catholics are Christians, and as all Christians, we believe there is only one God--the creator of heaven and earth. Parishoners of the Catholic church look to the Pope not in place of our Lord adn Savior, but as a spiritual light who helps us understand what God has done for us, while leading us towards the path to eternal life with God and his son, Jesus Christ. According to the bible (John 21, 15-17) Jesus Christ appointed Peter and his successors as shepherds, that is: persons looking after people and caring for them. The Pope is therefore first and foremost the Supreme Pastor of the Catholic Church--that is why he is held in such esteem. He is a an image or representation of Christ's love and concern for every single human being on earth as well as a reminder of the image of Christ that we all have within ourselves.

    There is a difference between "idols" and "images." The Pope is not an idol--he is an image. To begin, let us first define "idol." A passage from Jeremiah gives us a very good insight: "Learn not the customs of the nations, and have no fear of the signs of the heavens, though the nations fear them. For the cult idols of the nations are nothing, wood cut from the forest, wrought by craftsmen with the adze, adorned with silver and gold" (Jer 10:2-4).
    The operative word in this passage is nothing. If you take away the wooden image, there is no reality behind it. No divine being exists that gives meaning to this piece of wood.

    Idols (carvings of beings that did not exist except in people's imaginations) have neither value nor meaning because there is no reality behind them. Many times people have expressed the idea of how wrong the Catholic church is for promoting the "worship of saints as idols." This same idea can be applied to your question regarding the Pope. Are these figures idols? No, there is a spiritual reality that the image represents. So let us be very clear: In the biblical sense, images of Christ (including saints) are not idols; there are spiritual and physical realities in the bodies which the images represent. If the images are lost or destroyed, the spiritual reality remains. If you destroy an idol nothing remains. Devotion to the Pope comes back to the theology of image: Christ is God's image, the saints (and our Pope) are Christ's image. We honor them because we desire to imitate them. We pray to them the same as we call upon our good friends to do a favor for us.

    In regards to the big "hoopla" surrounding the election of our new Pope, sometimes cultural gestures of reverence are confused for gestures of worship. In doing so, we often judge not as God does, by what is in the heart, but rather by appearances (see Jn 8:15, Is 11:3).

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  2. My dearest friend, you really did a wonderful job, and by the way, you are an amazing example of a wonderful follow of Jesuscrist should be.. lo digo por experiencia propia :)
    In the way you mention all your highlight points have a lot means... the thing is, a enormous percentage of Catholics don't understand the theology as you do..
    and I think the mistake of any human being is to bring the faith in a "man" no matter you well mention they "some" are the successor of Peter, sadly in this time, are more corruption, and perversity in humans that good things to imitate.. so, we finishing following somebody that in some years will be undercover was more perverse than our self.
    and yes, there is many ways that people interpreted the biblie, and this is the reason there are many religions... but for me there is not way that i can justify the adoracion a imagenes.. no importa que tan bonito se pinte o sea simbolico... para mi es claro lo que la biblia dice,
    y lo mas importante me quedo en mi corazon con la idea fundamental
    1Timoteo2
    5 Porque hay un solo Dios,
    y un solo mediador entre Dios
    y los hombres, Jesucristo hombre,

    Yo si pienso que jesucristo es el unico intermediador entre Dios y yo
    Pero igual te digo
    muy respetadas tus aseveraciones
    ;) abrazos TQM
    y gracias por sacar tiempo para responder

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    1. Mau, I agree that there are many different interpretations of the bible and I appreciate and respect your personal viewpoints as well my friend. Just wanted to respond to your comment regarding corruption in the Catholic Church.

      In the Catholic Church–like any group of human beings–you’ll find the good and the bad mixed up together. You’ll find the agony and the ecstacy–the joy and the sorrow–the sinner and the saint. As a Catholic, I am not happy with the crime and sin and corruption in the Catholic Church, but is there a church that is perfect? Whose pastors, preachers, ministers are without sin? I can't imagine there is one. Among the holy apostles themselves were those who were less than holy: Judas was a traitor who sold his Lord and his soul for a bag of money then went out and hung himself; Peter was a loud mouthed coward; Thomas a timorous doubter; Paul a violent and ignorant man and an accessory to murder. The list could go on. The saints are no better nor worse than the rest of us. Maybe this is exactly what provides hope to a church full of sinners—especially me: only through God’s grace and generosity were they able to obtain pardon and blessedness. We are all sinners to which God provided His Son Jesus Christ that we may obtain mercy through His Church.

      I will close with one last passage: (John 8:7), "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone…"



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  3. Normita, yes you are very right and also at the end of my first comment I wrote about John 8:7.. exactly the same. that my idea is not to not to judge but to call attention!
    But there is a enormous different in the example you've given and have to be with a fundamental based about what we think priest are. The responsibility that a priest because the church history is very different that a pastor or other human being. The idea of a celibacy has huge impact in humanity because it is almost something elusive for saints. We know that sexuality is part of humanity, who is who has a condition of celibacy is almost a deity as not human
    Based on this idea, is that people put all their faith and trust in priests, even to idolize them!
    There is the problem. Today we know that many ( maybe not all ) priest are covering their homosexuality under the " skirts" but worse, their sexual crimes against infants what is even worse. So, anyone will say, "well there are not all the priest" or " every body sin" but it is not the point, the point is that their are cover their sin in name of GOD.. what is very different that the rest of criminals and worse as I exposed at the begging, based in the huge faith people deposited on them!
    I am going to read "Dilema: a priest's struggle with faith and love" by Father Albert Cutie, this book will explain a lot of this darkness behind an Institution.
    Later i will comment with more propierly what really happens inside Catholic church.

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