2. Introduction
The significance of this Exhortation
Dreams for the Amazon region
CHAPTER ONE - A SOCIAL DREAM
Injustice and crime
To feel outrage and to beg forgiveness
A sense of community
Broken institutions
Social dialogue
CHAPTER TWO- A CULTURAL DREAM
The Amazonian polyhedron
Caring for roots
Intercultural encounter
Endangered cultures, peoples at risk
CHAPTER THREE - AN ECOLOGICAL DREAM
This dream made of water
The cry of the Amazon region
The prophecy of contemplation
Ecological education and habits
CHAPTER FOURTH - AN ECCLESIAL DREAM
The message that needs to be heard
in the Amazon region
Inculturation
Paths of inculturation
in the Amazon region
Social and spiritual inculturation
Starting points
for an Amazonian holiness
The inculturation of the liturgy
Inculturation of forms of ministry
Communities filled with life
The strength and gift of women
Expanding horizons beyond conflicts
Ecumenical and interreligious
coexistence
CONCLUSION –
Mother of the Amazon Region
23. The beloved Amazon region
stands before the world
in all its splendour,
its drama and
its mystery. QA1
24. The significance of this Exhortation
I wish merely to propose a brief framework for reflection that can apply
concretely to the life of the Amazon region,…. a synthesis of some of the
larger concerns that I have expressed in earlier documents. QA 2
25. Dreams for the Amazon region
. Everything that the Church has to offer must become
incarnate in a distinctive way in each part of the world,
so that the Bride of Christ can take on a variety of faces that
better manifest the inexhaustible riches of God’s grace.
Preaching must become incarnate,
spirituality must become incarnate,
ecclesial structures must become incarnate.
26. CHAPTER ONE
- A SOCIAL DREAM
Injustice and crime
To feel outrage and to beg forgiveness
A sense of community
Broken institutions
Social dialogue
27. “a true ecological approach always becomes
a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice
in debates on the environment, so as to hear both
the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”. QM8
28. Injustice and crime
The colonizing interests that have continued to expand – legally and illegally – the timber
and mining industries, and have expelled or marginalized the indigenous peoples, the river
people and those of African descent, are provoking a cry that rises up to heaven:: QA 9
29. There they find no real freedom from their
troubles, but rather the worst forms of
enslavement, subjection and poverty.
Those cities, marked by great inequality,
where the majority of the population of
the Amazon region now live,
are witnessing an increase
of xenophobia, sexual exploitation
and human trafficking.QA10
30. “We are being affected by the timber merchants, ranchers
and other third parties. Threatened by economic actors
who import a model alien to our territories. QA11
31. the Amazon region has been presented as an enormous empty space to be filled,
a source of raw resources to be developed, a wild expanse to be domesticated.
None of this recognizes the rights of the original peoples; it simply
ignores them as if they did not exist, or acts as if the lands
on which they live do not belong to them. QA 12
32. local powers, using the excuse of development, were also party
to agreements aimed at razing the forest – together with the
life forms that it shelters – with impunity and indiscriminately.
33. The original peoples often witnessed helplessly
the destruction of the natural surroundings that
enabled them to be nourished and kept healthy, to
survive and to preserve a way of life in a culture
which gave them identity and meaning. QA 13
34. The imbalance of power is enormous; the weak have no means
of defending themselves, while the winners take it all,
And “the needy nations grow more destitute,
while the rich nations become even richer QA 13
35. When certain businesses out for quick profit appropriate lands and end up
privatizing even potable water, or when local authorities give free access to
the timber companies, mining or oil projects, and other businesses that raze
the forests and pollute the environment, economic relationships
36. They frequently resort to utterly
unethical means such as
penalizing protests and even
taking the lives of indigenous
peoples who oppose projects,
intentionally setting forest fires,
and suborning politicians and the
indigenous people themselves QA 14
37. All this accompanied by grave violations of human rights
and new forms of slavery affecting women in particular,
38. the scourge of drug trafficking
used as a way of subjecting
the indigenous peoples,
40. We cannot allow globalization to become
“a new version of colonialism” QA 14
41. bishops of the Brazilian Amazon have noted, “the history of the Amazon
region shows that it was always a minority that profited from the poverty
of the majority and from the unscrupulous plundering of the region’s
natural riches, God’s gift to the peoples who have lived there for
To feel outrage and to beg forgiveness
42. it is possible to overcome the various colonizing mentalities and
to build networks of solidarity and development. “The challenge,
in short, is to ensure a globalization in solidarity,
a globalization without marginalization”QA 17
43. Alternatives can be sought for sustainable herding
and agriculture, sources of energy that do not pollute,
dignified means of employment that do not entail the
destruction of the natural environment and of cultures. QA 17
44. many missionaries came to bring the Gospel, leaving
their homes and leading an austere and demanding
life alongside those who were most defenceless. We
know that not all of them were exemplary, yet the
work of those who remained faithful to the Gospel also
inspired “a legislation like the Laws of the Indies, which
defended the dignity of the indigenous peoples from
violence against their peoples and territories”.QA 18
45. “I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the Church
herself, but for the crimes committed against the native peoples
during the so-called conquest of America QA 19
46. A sense of community - Efforts to build a just society require a capacity for
fraternity, a spirit of human fellowship. Hence, without diminishing the importance of
personal freedom, it is clear that the original peoples of the Amazon region have a strong
sense of community. It permeates “their work, their rest, their relationships, their rites and
celebrations. Everything is shared; private areas – typical of modernity – are minimal QA 20
47. All this makes even more unsettling the sense of bewilderment and
uprootedness felt by those indigenous people who feel forced to
migrate to the cities, as they attempt to preserve their dignity amid
more individualistic urban habitats and a hostile environment QA 21
48. the bishops of Ecuador have appealed for “a new social and cultural
system which privileges fraternal relations within a framework of
acknowledgment and esteem for the different cultures and
ecosystems, one capable of opposing every form of discrimination
and oppression between human beings”. QA 22
49. Broken institutions
A number of countries have a relatively low level of institutional
effectiveness, which results in greater problems for their people QA 23
50. a culture that poisons the state and its institutions, permeating all social strata,
including the indigenous communities. We are talking about a true moral scourge;
as a result, there is a loss of confidence in institutions and their representatives,
which totally discredits politics and social organizations. The Amazonian peoples
are not immune to corruption, and they end up being its principal victims”. QA 24
51. special attention be paid to the provenance of donations
or other kinds of benefits, as well as to investments made by
ecclesiastical institutions or individual Christians. QA 25
52. Social dialogue - They are our principal dialogue partners,
those from whom we have the most to learn, to whom we need
to listen out of a duty of justice, and from whom we must
ask permission before presenting our proposals. QA 26
53. Dialogue must not only favour the preferential option on behalf
of the poor, the marginalized and the excluded, but also
respect them as having a leading role to play. . QA 27
54. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9
Amoris Laetitia – general introduction
Carnival
Christ is Alive
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Love and Marriage 1-
Love and Marriage 2 – growing up to sexual maturity
Love and Marriage 3 – psychological differences and complimentarity
Love and Marriage 4- causes of sexual attraction
Love and Marriage 5- freedom and intimacy
Love and Marriage 6 - human love
Love and Marriage 7 - destiny of human love
Love and Marriage 8- marriage between Christian believers
Love and Marriage 9 – sacrament of marriage
Lumen Fidei – ch 1
Lumen Fidei – ch 2
Lumen Fidei – ch 3
Lumen Fidei – ch 4
Medjugore Pilgrimage
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Mother Teresa of Calcuta – Saint
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
Valentine
Vocación
Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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55. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 3
Amor y Matrimonio 4 - 6
Amor y Matrimonio 7 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – cap 1
Amoris Laetitia – cap 2
Amoris Laetitia – cap 3
Amoris Laetitia – cap 4
Amoris Laetitia – cap 5
Amoris Laetitia – cap 6
Amoris Laetitia – cap 7
Amoris Laetitia – cap 8
Amoris Laetitia – cap 9
Amoris Laetitia – introducción general
Carnaval
Cristo Vive
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucaristía)
Espíritu Santo
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Lumen Fidei – cap 1
Lumen Fidei – cap 2
Lumen Fidei – cap 3
Lumen Fidei – cap 4
Madre Teresa de Calcuta – Santa
María y la Biblia
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la JMJ2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Querida Amazonia
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1
Revolución Rusa y comunismo 2
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 3
Santiago Apóstol
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Vocación
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