Chagas disease, also known as « silent or silenced disease », affects mainly poor people without access to health care or people without a political voice. The disease progresses slowly and often shows an asymptomatic clinical course. Without treatment, Chagas disease can lead to severe cardiac and digestive alterations and become fatal. Raising […]
Ash Wednesday, Year C
ASH WEDNESDAY – Hearing the words we may think : Already? And we go on thinking silently… Lent is there… It means: sacrifices, depriving oneself of this and that, a bit… morbid? Gloomy? Strange, this is not the picture given by the Scripture readings. The main idea standing out from […]
22nd Sunday of Year B
« It is a question of perspective… » These words are sometimes spoken by someone who does not agree with a statement from somebody else. That person does not want to express disapproval outright. He, or she, does not want to manifest too bluntly a difference of opinion, or taste. But, the […]
Ash Wednesday, Year A
Last Sunday (8th Sunday of the Year, A) we were reflecting on the idea of ‘painting’- painting with colours and paintbrushes. Throughout history people have tried to paint even… GOD – at least, what they thought God was like! Still today, artists try to do the same. But we said […]