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<\/a>During our assembly we focused our attention on two relevant facts in our countries: migration and the mistreatment of our Mother Earth. These are true signs of the times that we want to examine in the light of the Word of God and the social teaching of the Church, especially as given by Pope Francis, and as seen in the spirituality that we have received from Brother Charles de Foucauld. The goal of this communal discernment was to discover the will of God and to more deeply commit ourselves to a true ministry for migrants and a caring for our Common Home.<\/p>\nListening attentively to the reports from each country we heard that in one way or another we are committed in these two areas, but that we need to do much more because we are dealing with people\u2019s lives, with families, and with vulnerable communities. They are victims of a savage capitalism that destroys without mercy as it worships the god of money.<\/p>\n
It has been clear to us that the Lord asks us to \u201cgo in search of the most abandoned,\u201d as Brother Charles did in his time, who are in this case migrants who arrive in our countries in situations of great vulnerability. The Word of God is specific: \u201cYou shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; have the same love for him as for yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the Lord, am your God.\u201d (Lev 19.34) And Pope Francis shows us a very concrete way to express this love: Welcome, protect, promote and integrate our migrant brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n We want to reflect more on this theme in our fraternities and with our presbyterates so as to have a prophetic stance; we also want to network with church and civil organizations to protect the environment and preserve the beauty and integrity of creation, which is God\u2019s gift to all humanity. Charles\u2019 non-consumer lifestyle encourages us to live in simplicity, in austerity and in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n During our assembly we visited the communities of a local parish in Santo Domingo. This visit put us in contact with the holy people of God, who, from their poverty show us the urgency of being authentic with the obligations that God has shown us in this assembly, which were taken up in our Desert Day and in the Review of Life which we did in small groups.<\/p>\n We ask the Holy Spirit to make us more faithful each day to the charism of Brother Charles, so that we can share it with many members of the people of God and continue developing a \u201cChurch that is poor and for the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 24 February 2018<\/p>\n PDF: Letter from Santo Domingo, february 2018, eng<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" II PAN AMERICAN ASSEMBLY \u2013 19 TO 24 FEBRUARY 2018 Dear Brothers, in a climate of prayer, joy and shared fraternity, national responsibles and delegates from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Haiti, Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aurelio-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesuscaritas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The two presentations of our brothers Eleuterio Ruiz and Carlos Roberto Dos Santos: \u201cStrangers and Refugees, Reflections on a Challenge of Our time in the Light of the Scripture\u201d and \u201cBiblical and Pope Francis\u2019 Reflections on the Environment\u201d enlightened us.<\/p>\n<\/a>We have also felt a strong call to care for our Common Home and to make ours the question Francis offers to humanity in his encyclical \u201cLaudato Si\u201d: \u201cWhat kind of a world do we want to leave for those who will come after us, to children who are growing up?\u201d (160).<\/p>\n<\/a>We are happy and hopeful regarding the calling of the Synod for the bishops of the Pan-Amazonian Region. We will collaborate actively in its preparation and afterward put it into practice.<\/p>\n<\/a>Your brothers of the II Pan American Assembly,<\/p>\n