{"id":2791,"date":"2020-02-07T15:40:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2020-02-10T13:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:29:06","slug":"the-american-identity-crisis-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/the-american-identity-crisis-at-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Identity- Crisis at the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The \u201cGreat Minds Dialogues\u201d is a series of lectures that complements Seton Hall University\u2019s celebration of students who have shown great initiative in their studies and other activities, laying a foundation for a stellar future.\u00a0 The School of Diplomacy and International Relations relates the call for excellence to be completed by seeing leadership as service.<\/p>\n

Within this series, Sister Norma Pimental addressed the \u201cCrisis at the Border\u201d on February 6th<\/sup>\u00a0in Bethany Hall.\u00a0 Her qualifications and a video of her lecture can be found here.<\/a> As Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, Sister Norma has led in the organization of this service of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas.<\/p>\n

Sister Norma could have presented data to show the accomplishments of her team in terms of efficiency and cost-effective use of resources. That would impress people celebrating \u201cGreat Minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Sister Norma’s approach was anecdotal, describing the great effectiveness achieved when the heart<\/em> is touched. Then the attitude of people \u201cjust doing their job\u201d may be lifted to recognize the innate humanity of those depicted from afar as invasive hordes. Could Sister Norma be permitted to visit the children herded into prison cells?\u00a0 She asked to go into a cell to pray<\/em> with the children. This simple act had the potential for the guards to see these children from a different angle. Did they recall the parable of the \u201cleast of my brothers and sisters\u201d (Matthew 25:31-46)?<\/p>\n

The opening prayer by Msgr. Anthony Ziccardi, Vice President for Mission and Ministry, places the challenge of our time in the proper prospective:<\/p>\n

Almighty God,
\nlong ago you commanded Abraham, our father in faith, to leave his homeland
\nand promised him and his descendants a new country.
\nYou accompanied your elected people\u2019s patriarchs in their migrations
\nand protected them in their wanderings.<\/p>\n

You provided for them on their journeys
\nand in their long sojourn in a foreign land.
\nBut suffering bitter oppression, they called out to you,
\nand you led them out of slavery with mighty hand and outstretched arm.
\nYou settled them in the land of your promise
\nand commanded them both to fidelity and to welcome:
\nthey were to remain true to their unity and identity as your people,
\nbut they were are also to welcome the immigrant and the sojourner among them,
\nfor thereby they would become a reflection of you in the world,
\nas Moses explained: \u201cThe Lord your God loves the alien,
\ngiving him food and clothing. Love the alien, therefore;
\nfor you yourselves were once aliens in the land of Egypt.\u201d (Deuteronomy 10:18-19)<\/p>\n

Having received from you the whole wide earth as its temporal habitation,
\nhumankind remains through time both settled and on the move.
\nWhenever and wherever conflicts arise between residents and sojourners,
\nturn the minds of both to thoughts of peace
\nand move their arms to open wide in mutual embrace
\nin the assurance
\nthat peace, not enmity, is your will for us
\nand in the conviction
\nthat none of us has here an enduring homeland or fixed abode,
\nbut that such is to be found only in heaven,
\nthe place of our true citizenship,
\nthat home of countless mansions prepared by Christ your Son
\nwhere we have all been invited,
\nas your children and as brothers and sisters of one another,
\nto sit with all patriarchs at your one abundant table in the eternal kingdom.
\nWe pray through same Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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