An open letter to women religious

My dear sisters in Christ,

     These are very trying days for all of us in the Church as our brothers, the bishops and cardinals of Holy Church, look upon us with distrust, censure, and condemnation. While we experience this as hurtful and insulting, let us not forget that they are our brothers in Christ. Let us look upon them with the compassionate eyes of Christ. Let us look upon them as Mary, our Mother in the Lord, would look upon them: with utmost, tender love.
     My sisters, consider how our brothers must be hurting, how fearful and threatened they must feel, how deeply wounded are our brothers. How in their fear and woundedness, they grasp ever more desperately for power and control, unlike Him '"who though He was in the form of God, did not deem equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied Himself," relinquishing all, in order to become one like us in all things but sin; unlike Him, who willingly became utterly and completely vulnerable to us, His creatures.
     I am writing this letter, my sisters, to invite all us us to pray and to intercede for our brothers, to pray for their healing and the healing of our Church. Let us make August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption of our Most Blessed Mother, a day of prayer and intercession for our brothers, a day of prayer and intercession for the healing of our Church and for an end to the injustice of misogyny. Let us ask Our Blessed Mother to intercede for all of us, her children.

**disclaimer: the views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely my own and do not reflect the views or opinions of my community or my sisters in community.