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Novamayjun 2020 RP PROVINCE NEWSLETTER May-June 2020 Issue Vol. 56 No. 3 By Fr. Melanio Michael Reyes, CICM Provincial Councillor INTRODUCTION At this moment, in the different parts of the world, people continue to struggle between life and death as the coronavirus lingers, with its deadly threat and disturbing impact to lives. Overnight, this pandemic brought to a halt our normal lives, disrupted our plans and caused anxiety and fear. At the height of the lockdown many people everywhere re- awakened to God and prayer as they experienced their utter helplessness. It made a basic reality more obvious: we are not in full control of our lives. We are fragile as human beings and vulnerable to death. While we have learned to adapt to the changes required of us to stop the spread of the virus, coming slowly out of quarantine, we realize that we have been changed after having lived through this experience of crisis. A change in our behaviors has caused deeper changes in us as individuals. Is it also possible that we as CICM Missionaries change more profoundly because of our collective experience of living through this crisis? The changes in behaviors brought by the pandemic also remind us about some dispositions and attitudes that are indispensable to our religious missionary life. I would like to highlight some of these dispositions and attitudes while reflecting on some general needed practices that we have adapted during this pandemic. NOVA ET VETERA • MAY-JUNE 2020 3 STAY AT HOME go disappeared. A To stop the home-body CICM spread of the invisible took its place. This enemy, the safest forced us to spend thing to do for all has more time together. been to stay home. We ate our meals This has been difficult more leisurely, not for many, especially hurrying off for those who lost somewhere as we their loved ones to used to. We prayed Covid-19. Family together and members could not be celebrated the Holy with their loved ones in the Eucharist more regularly as a hospitals. For those who community. Home became our succumbed to the disease, the base to respond to the crisis and human remains of their loved ones to be in solidarity with the world were immediately cremated which in prayer. deprived the surviving members of Staying home also gave us the family of the usual rites more chances to appreciate and performed for the dead, making learn from each other in our daily grieving all the more difficult. activities. Owing to our differ- We have experience of this ences, moments of disagreements first-hand. Like many others, we and misunderstandings are ex- in the RP province could not even pected in every community. How- pay our last respects and express ever, the extended quarantine pro- our solidarity with the grieving vided us the opportunity to im- family of our confrere Fr. Angel prove our skills in community Luciano, CICM, when he passed living. This pandemic has shown away quite unexpectedly in his us that we can foster more our sleep. His untimely death fraternal life as we live in a com- happened when stay-at-home munity as brothers in the same restrictions were strictly imposed. mission. Confinement at home also SOCIAL DISTANCING meant that our normal missionary When we needed to go out, activities were also suspended. we were told to observe social dis- Quarantined and restricted from tancing. Social behaviors have going where we wanted to go, the also drastically changed. There familiar image of a CICM are no more handshakes, hugging, missionary who is always on the 4 NOVA ET VETERA • MAY-JUNE 2020 handlers, the grocery clerks, the security guards and the garbage collectors, etc. It took social dis- tancing to wake us up from the isolated lives we were leading before. There were times that we lived without care for the conse- quences of our actions for other people and without awareness or gratitude for the efforts of others. Social distancing is collectively waking us up from this insensibility and reminding us of our interconnectedness with each other. high fives and close physical contacts. It has proved very ESSENTIALS AND NON- challenging, especially for families ESSENTIALS and cultures who are used on such physical manifestations of The Enhanced Community affection. Since we have to wear Quarantine has taught us how to face masks when we go out, it is live simply and to be happy with practically impossible to know what is available. The economic whether the person we are impact of this pandemic is widely meeting is even smiling at us or felt as many businesses were not. forced to reduce operations or shut down, creating unemploy- Remarkably, as we experi- ment. Locally we felt this con- enced this radical detachment cretely as the supply of goods was from others, it is in this time of disrupted. We could not always quarantine that we were reminded have what we wanted. We had no of how interconnected we really choice but to economize and to are. For instance, as food sup- save for tomorrow to avoid plies became scarce because of wastage since goods were scarce. the quarantine, we collectively The pandemic forced us to discern remembered how important well between what is essential and farmers were to our lives. We non-essential in life. This is a good remembered that we are de- practice that we can continue even pendent on them for our survival, when the crisis is over. Life be- as well as the drivers that trans- came simpler as we realized that port their produce, the cargo NOVA ET VETERA • MAY-JUNE 2020 5 we can do without so many silenced the tinkling sound of things. We are reminded of Jesus coins dropped into the collection who instructs his followers “Take boxes, reduced generous nothing for the journey--no staff, donations and contributions as no bag, no bread, no money, no mass stipends and “arancel” were extra shirt.” (Lk. 9:3) CICM’s suspended due to the prohibition simple lifestyle and reliance on of religious gatherings. This leaves God’s providence is a powerful us with no choice but to depend witnessing especially in today’s on what has been saved as we face highly materialistic and consum- an obscure future. eristic world. The uncertain future com- On a more practical note, the pels us to make sound decisions call to simplicity is urgent because regarding our limited financial our financial resources are resources. We are called to be affected by the global economic responsible as we spend only for crisis brought about by the what is essential and to forgo pandemic. The funds we depend without regret the non-essentials. on are limited and are vulnerable We are forced to “tighten our to the volatility of the world’s belts” and to learn to live in our economy. Most of us rely heavily community with simplicity with- on our Congregation for out sacrificing enthusiasm in our sustenance and the support of our activities. mission. It is natural to expect a significant reduction, if not THE “NEW NORMAL” suspension, of the usual There will be an end to this allocations we expect to receive at pandemic like all other past this time, in pandemics. solidarity with the However, nothing is millions of workers certain about the all over the world future until a who have lost their vaccine for this jobs and sources of co ro naviru s is livelihood. discovered. What is The same is certain though is t r u e f o r a l l that life will not be churches as the same again. experienced in our H e r e i n t h e parishes. For most, Philippines and in the quarantine has the rest of the 6 NOVA ET VETERA • MAY-JUNE 2020 world, we are gradually being change too, if we want to be introduced to the so called “New relevant and effective missionaries Normal.” With the goal of slowly in today’s context. “getting back on track” risks are being taken to progressively open CONCLUSION the economy and other important COVID-19 has changed the activities. However, adaptations world forever. It has forced have to be made. changes in our behaviors and is I read how a garment factory continuing to change us deeply as shifted to producing Personal we continue living in the Protective Equipment (PPE) to uncertainty that it brings. Thus cater to hospital needs. In another far the pandemic has taught us to place, a pizza restaurant has discover joy in our community, to started to use their brick oven to be happy with a simple lifestyle make molds to fabricate face and to promote our solidarity with shields which was in demand. In our suffering brothers and sisters. doing so, they kept their operation The post Covid-19 era will as well as employees. Dioceses present to us new situations that and parishes adapted their will certainly demand new ministry online to reach out to solutions and new missionary their flock. Creative adaptation to responses. This is a challenge for the situation kept them faithful to all of us to rethink where we are their purpose while even in the and where we should be if we are midst of certain restrictions. to keep our missionary spirit alive. Our own CICM schools have Adaptation to this new era will be shifted to delivering learning crucial. In faith can we consider through alternative means, that this pandemic may be God’s including online. In a sense they way of forcing us to make the are showing a way how to face the changes that we need at this time challenges of adapting to the new in our congregation’s history? If reality so as not to lose their goal that were so, then we are all on educating the youth.
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