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Stang’s Letter about His Sister, continued 02/15/2024 |
I am sharing a letter from David Stang, Sister Dorothy’s brother, which I began in yesterday’s DM. |
We then went to the Lawyers’ plush building and auditorium. But first outside in the courtyard were several hundred people singing in a circle and also praying for Dot. Ninety percent were peasants. We then walked into the building peasants had never dreamt they would ever be allowed to enter. As I walked in |
A BBC News crew investigates what lay behind the murder of Sister Dorothy Stang. MDMarshall |
lawyers in their suits and ties were staring at us. The plush auditorium was filled with peasants, politicians, lawyers, professors and other government agents. When Dot received her award she invited Maggie and I to be with her and we all hugged each other. I looked out at the crowd
and many people had tears in their eyes. People started coming on to the stage hugging her and whispering in her ear. Everyone knew she had a price on her head. So, many were saying goodbye and saying their spouse or sibling or friend were also killed once they had a price on their head. |
Video meditation on the life of Sister Dorothy Stang, based on Robert Ellsberg’s book “Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses.” Sheen Center. | The next day Dot took us to the House of Representatives.
We sat outside. It was a glass building and we could see them proceeding with government business. Suddenly two men came out and invited Dot and Maggie and I inside. They sat us with |
them, with us in the front seat. Many stood up and started clapping. Several of them also came up and hugged Dot and said loudly that their spouse or friends had also been killed. Less than two months later Dot was murdered. At Dot’s memorial several Bishops and Priests and a Protestant woman priest concelebrated at the
Mass. |
This letter wonderfully concretizes the story of Sr. Dorothy’s final days and makes real her “large heart,” that is, her courage. We learn that courage is an infectious virus, a community thing, not just an individual thing. Spirit is like that. |
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I recall attending a Mass in the Amazon after which people were asked to light a candle and name three names of someone they knew personally who had been killed trying to defend the forest. One person told me, “the hard part was limiting it to three. I know at least ten off the top of my head.” |
See Matthew Fox, Confessions: The Making of a Post-denominational Priest, pp. 211-222, 341-43, 433, 448.
Also see Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Banner Image: “Dorothy Stang: present in the people’s struggle! 14 years since the death
of Sister Dorothy Stang, defender of the forest...” Photo by Brasil de Fato on Flickr. |
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