As we began the project in a spare room, a sacred energy carried us through three and a half weeks of cutting out pictures, tearing up magazines, talking, laughing, praying, gluing and ungluing pieces of paper on twelve 8 ½ x 11 sheets of copy paper. Sometimes working in collaboration, sometimes individually, we found inspiration through the grace of our own holy walk.
Comenzando el proyecto en un cuarto libre, una energía sagrada nos llevó por tres semanas y media a recortar retratos, rompiendo revistas, hablando, riéndonos, rezando y pegando y despegando pedazos de papel sobre hojas de 8 ½ X11. A veces trabajando en colaboración y a veces solas, nos inspirábamos en la edición de nuestra santa caminata.
The icons that emerged embraced a passion for social justice through the lens of Christ’s own passion. We soon realized that our initial desire to improve our private Lenten journey had the potential to be shared with the Christian community. We began to replicate the originals and mount them with their titles and the scripture passages which inspired them.
Los íconos que aparecieron nos proyectaron una pasión por la justicia social a través de la pasión de Cristo. De pronto nos dimos cuenta que nuestros primeros deseos de mejorar nuestro viaje de Cuaresma tenía la posibilidad de ser compartidos con la comunidad cristiana. Comenzamos a reproducir los originales y montarlos con los títulos y pasajes de las Sagradas Escrituras las cuales nos habían inspirado.
About the authors: Rosalyn and Ann are the co-founders of the interfaith peaceCENTER in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1995, the peaceCENTER is focused on a vision of God’s Peace through the learning of just peace in our lives and the demonstration of creative nonviolence in this world.
Rosalyn Falcón Collier is the peacework educator at the peaceCENTER where she designs and facilitates conflict engagement and transformative mediation skillshops and presentations dealing with creative nonviolence in multi-cultural situations. She is the recipient of the 2000 Peace Educator of the Year Award from the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development.
Ann E. Helmke is the animating director at the peaceCENTER and also a
Lutheran ordained minister (ELCA). She keeps the peaceCENTER vision-focused with an emphasis on interfaith based community organizing and relationship building in the community at large. Ann is the recipient of the 1999 Imagineer Award from the San Antonio Mind Science Foundation and
the 1995 Peacemaker of the Year Award from the San Antonio Bar Foundation.
Both Rosalyn and Ann speak on a national level and facilitate groups of all sizes on topics such as faith activation, community development, creative nonviolence, spiritual growth, restorative justice, and organizational process all expressed through personal and local activism based within the current global context.
Shall We Ever Rise? a holy walk 