FLOURISHING WITHIN TIMES OF CRISIS - SR. MIRIAM ALTENHOFEN SSPS

FLOURISHING
WITHIN TIMES OF
     CRISIS
 Sr. Miriam Altenhofen SSpS

The New Reality of Covid
                                                          19

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COVID – 19
                                 2nd or 3rd wave
First cases in                  Europe/US/India
    China                            /Brazil

   2019             2020             2021

                 Italy/Europe

Isolation

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Resilience

• Sleep
• Physical exercise
• Food
• Hobby                •   Spiritual reading
• Be social            •   Mindfulness
                       •   Gratitude and nourishing hope
• Help others
                       •   Humour
• Daily schedule       •   Celebrate                       • Alcohol/drugs
• Meaningful Liturgy                                       • Obesity
                       •   Be positive                     • Isolation
                       •   (Self)-compassion

Hope and attuning into the                                            • Choose life not death,
  good                                                                    deliberate effort to
                                                                          hunt the good (benefit-
                                                                          finding)
                                                                        • Every day: Find 3 good
                                                                          things that happened
                                                                          to you today.

https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_hone_3_secrets_of_resilient_people#t-952600 (8:25-11:33)

• “The continued global health crisis has
              Creating a culture                                           painfully highlighted the urgent need to
                                                                           promote a culture of encounter for the
              of Encounter                                                 whole human family, and for all men
                                                                           and women to be passionate about
                                                                           meeting others, seeking points of
                                                                           contact, building bridges, planning a
                                                                           project that includes everyone.”
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-02/pope-francis-audience-eiis-culture-peace-encounter-dialogue-reli.html

The Art of Encounter (FT 215)

• Life, for all its confrontations, is the art of encounter. I have frequently called
  for the growth of a culture of encounter capable of transcending our
  differences and divisions. This means working to create a many-faceted
  polyhedron whose different sides form a variegated unity, in which “the whole
  is greater than the part”. The image of a polyhedron can represent a society
  where differences coexist, complementing, enriching and reciprocally
  illuminating one another, even amid disagreements and reservations. Each of
  us can learn something from others. No one is useless and no one is
  expendable. This also means finding ways to include those on the peripheries
  of life. For they have another way of looking at things; they see aspects of
  reality that are invisible to the centres of power where weighty decisions are
  made.

Compassion

• The meaning of compassion is
  to recognize the suffering of
  others and then take action to
  help. Compassion embodies a
  tangible expression of love for
  those who are suffering.

Frederick Buechner

• "Compassion is
  sometimes the fatal
  capacity for feeling
  what it is like to live
  inside somebody else’s
  skin. It is the knowledge
  that there can never
  really be any peace and
  joy for me until there is
  peace and joy finally for
  you too."

Desalojo de la
                                    Comunidad Cerrito,
                                    13 Mayo 2021

Resistencia social y pacifica del   https://www.youtube.com/wat
 pueblo Avá Guarani/Paraguay        ch?v=MypOwv7pKOw

Religous bring hope to   https://mattersindia.com/2021/05/rourkela-diocese-
COVID patients           religious-bring-hope-to-covid-patients/

Diocese Rourkela/India

Specific challenges

•   Ecology
•   Global justice
•   Peace
•   Solidarity
• Interculturality – local and global
• Black Lives Matter – ethnocentricity, discrimination

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