Letter For Corpus Christi, 2024

 HUNGER FOR JUSTICE

Saturday, May 11, 2024
8:12 AM

(By: Karla Wagener for Corpus Christi, 2024)

I never told anyone about this but as a child I suffered immensely concerned about the hunger in the world. Maybe it was a tendency of those years in the late 50's after the Second World War or because my dad had been in the War. For some reason it affected me intensely. This was much of the reason I decided to come to South America in 1975. I came in a program of the University of New Mexico to finish my degree in Spanish with the idea of becoming a teacher.

But deeper inside I had feelings of somehow being able to make a quest I had not really analysed, but felt enormously.

I could never express how much I felt as a child the suffering of hunger in the world and never knew quite why it concerned me so much. And I didn't tell anyone about my feelings, not anyone!

Now as an adult I read that the Virgin Mary has the great desire to provide the Eucharist to all of the World in reparation over her son's suffering and death. This greater understanding of hunger and satisfaction helps me understand the motivations in my life and what has mobilized me to live shall we say, "against the grain". There is a desire to feed all of the World.

While most everyone was trying to get into the United States, I was searching for alternatives. While most worked towards economic commodities I attempted to be stoic. It was a bit crazy and hard for people to understand. Not even I clearly understood. It was more of a need I carried within.

Now, at the winter years of my life it makes sense to me that the world needs to cure root justice in order to truly satisfy essentials. At least it has redeemed me personally.

So, it's been a long arduous journey to this "nervanal" comprehension and I share it with you all even though at times it is quite a delicate matter for me to come out of myself to communicate my writings with the hope and desire to make a better World!

Although physical hunger needs must be met, a more profound spiritual hunger is even more necessary. The situation in Gaza and my own appointments with a nutritionist lately has mobilized my thoughts about all this and is why I'm sharing it and by chance this is happening near the celebration of Corpus Christi! My life has been built on this so perhaps you can understand me better knowing this and appreciate the effort!