Letter from Father Efrén Blanco, provincial superior of the missionaries in Cameroon, with the news of the progress in the construction work of the Soa University parish and other news of the mission in Soa and Yaoundé.
Dear friends and benefactors: We are living this month of April with the Easter joy and that is what we wish all of you and your families.
In this month, the work of the new church is evolving day by day. On April 15, his Excellency the Ambassador of Spain came to participate in the Sunday Mass and then visited the construction; All this was a pleasant moment for him and his companions, as well as for the young people and our community.
In the current wooden chapel we had the joy of celebrating the marriage of two young students, Gertrudis and Esteban, who met in Soa and as a sign of trust in us they wanted to get married in our parish.
On April 29, Sunday, we celebrated the Parish Council: at the end of it we took a photo with the model of the new church, made by a former student of Soa and member of our parish. These young people are, as you know, the people who allow us to carry out all the work we do here.
Precisely one of those great young people, Cynthia, Idente Youth teacher for many years, has just left us. On April 10, she died in a tragic car accident, while carrying her one month old baby, whom she wanted to show her grandmother in the village. Her baby survived without any problem, because Cynthia protected him with her own body. We have no doubt that from now on she is interceding for her baby and for all of us.
Finally, we are glad that in Santander the Caritas diocesan has included us this year in the gesture of Lent and we appear in the piggy bank that is distributed in all the parishes of the diocese. Likewise, our communities of Palma de Mallorca have organized an artistic event, with the height that characterizes them, for May 5 and the collection will be for the work of the church of Soa.
Count on our prayers and we thank you for the interest and dissemination that you are giving to our activities.
!["El mundo puede cambiar desde el corazón"
(Papa Francisco, Encíclica Dilexit Nos)
"El Corazón de Cristo es éxtasis, es salida, es donación, es encuentro. En él nos volvemos capaces de relacionarnos de un modo sano y feliz, y de construir en este mundo el Reino de amor y de justicia. Nuestro corazón unido al de Cristo es capaz de este milagro social.
Tomar en serio el corazón tiene consecuencias sociales. Como enseña el Concilio Vaticano II, «tenemos todos que cambiar nuestros corazones, con los ojos puestos en el orbe entero y en aquellos trabajos que todos juntos podemos llevar a cabo para que nuestra generación mejore». Porque «los desequilibrios que fatigan al mundo moderno están conectados con ese otro desequilibrio fundamental que hunde sus raíces en el corazón humano». [21] Ante los dramas del mundo, el Concilio invita a volver al corazón, explicando que el ser humano «por su interioridad es, en efecto, superior al universo entero; a esta profunda interioridad retorna cuando entra dentro de su corazón, donde Dios le aguarda, escrutador de los corazones (cf. 1 S 16,7; Jr 17,10), y donde él personalmente, bajo la mirada de Dios, decide su propio destino».
Esto no significa confiar excesivamente en nosotros mismos. Tengamos cuidado: advirtamos que nuestro corazón no es autosuficiente; es frágil y está herido. Tiene una dignidad ontológica, pero al mismo tiempo debe buscar una vida más digna. Dice también el Concilio Vaticano II que «el fermento evangélico ha despertado y despierta en el corazón del hombre esta irrefrenable exigencia de la dignidad», aunque para vivir conforme a esa dignidad no nos basta conocer el Evangelio ni cumplir mecánicamente lo que nos manda. Necesitamos el auxilio del amor divino. Acudamos al Corazón de Cristo, ese centro de su ser, que es un horno ardiente de amor divino y humano y es la mayor plenitud que puede alcanzar lo humano. Allí, en ese Corazón es donde nos reconocemos finalmente a nosotros mismos y aprendemos a amar."](https://www.idente.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
