SJES ROME

During the time I was working with displaced persons in Japan we would come up against a number of unforeseen legal obstacles and long trials. Our success, such as it was, in drawing the attention of the National Diet and the mass media seemed inadequate.

During Holy Week, the Migrations Team of Christian Life Community (CLC) in Spain, along with the Vedruna Carmelites Community and the Elín Association, sought to share the sufferings and the joys of the migrants of Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city located on the African coast of the Strait of Gibraltar.

I will never forget the day it all came together. The place: St. Martin of Porres Parish, comprising two marginalized neighbourhoods in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, a parish that has been a source of life for my Province since a group of Jesuits moved here thirty-six years ago.