20 Anos de La Cruz Subversiva en El Salvador, Part One




En su casa, Obispo Medardo Gomez, habla de plantas, teologia de la vida, y los necesitados, preparando para la celebracion manana. Bishop Gomez uses the term "necesitados" for those who need God's presence and love, preferring it to "rich or poor," because many times it's those surrounded with riches, who are the most needy. La Cruz Subversiva, that went to prison for the sins of the state, gets cleaned up in preparation for the celebration. 2009.

Parte Uno: 20 Anos con la Cruz Subversiva en El Salvador

Oja de la ruda los ancestors la planta tiene poderes espirituales
Obispo talking.
Bishop Medardo Gomez
Creencia, buenas vibraciones, buena suerte

La ruda and its uses.
Ancudos, mosquitoes

Aroma que Medardo le gusta y resumen.
Teologia de la vida en la mesa conmigo y pastores y nietos
integrar y popular en la forma para el pueblo.

Pueblo es acompanado por Dios. Notas en mi cuaderno.

La lema de los pobres—los necesidades—
muchas veces el rico es mas necesitado que los pobres
alegria y esperanza
en medios de los lujos
Pobrecito mi patron, piensando que el pobre soy yo
SIDA, Guerra, immigracion
y preparando para celebracion de la cruz subversive

Da me la mano, da me la mano, da me la mano por luchar
Blue-green paint of the polluted city,
the wood banks, the car wash across the street,
buses going by. Songs of the pueblo,
finishing with the band. Greeting the people coming in.
La gente del pueblo, greeting the people,
beginning el servicio de amor

Parte II: 20 Años de la Cruz Subversiva en El Salvador

Pastor es un compromiso de la vida por la vida
no es un profesion—pastor, pastora

noviembre , el mes de martirios
16 de noviembre,
21 de noviembre
20 years, la Guerra en el pais,
pueblo oprimido, hablando con Ignacio ellacuria,
No te preocupes, Medardo,

Con su trabajadores,
Vinieron los militares,
15 extranjeros, vinieron los militares, embajada de alemania,
honking horns of the street

Nueve obispos de los estados unidos
William Walker,
Esta cruz es la cruz de cristo, regalo de Dios
Cruz de un buen pastor

El Corrido de la Cruz Subversiva por Regino


Parte III: 20 Años de la Cruz Subversiva en El Salvador

Communion during the celebration of the cruz subversia,
La gente  has traveled from all over the world for this service,
Nov, 2009
El Reino de la Justicia
No hay
Mitigation de la crisis, eating with Gomez and his pastoral crew.
The hurricaine Ida hits El Salvador during the month of the martyrs in November, 2009.
Walking through the community of the marginados con Obispo during this crisis.
houses of tin filled with mud.
the love the community has for Medardo, for walking with them.
All that happens during times of celebration when living in marginal communities.
From contaminated water to destroyed houses.
crisis integral, pastoral integral, no hay una barco de noe para salvarnos.

From the Notebook:

Medardo says, introducing me to his community, that I was converted by the Mexicans. 
His wife, Abelina, from  Mexico. A pastor. She cooks Mexican and El Salvadoran. 
Pastora Abelina pastors Fe y Esperanza, a refugee community of Ex-combatientes, 
from the Guerra Civil.

In 2002, Blue Begonia Press had just published 
Seeking Light in Each Dark Room/Buscando Luz en Cada Cuarto Oscuro. 
We were the abrecaminos, and we were on the move. 
Carole Folsom-Hill had begun working with Holden Village to create 
a Hispanic Community Retreat Week at the former copper mine in the mountains 
to bring the immigrant community together from all parts of the state, 
in all of its various forms. In Yakima, we were immigrant Mexicano, campesino. 
We came from Michoacán, Jalisco, Oaxaca.
Getting on the boat at Lake Chelan, the Lady of the Lake, 
I met Medardo—el Obispo de la Paz—Obispo Medardo Gómez. 
We were looking at photos. In those days, we still had pictures printed, 
shiny in our hands. “Come to El Salvador and you’ll write the best poems of your life,” 
Medardo says.

That’s all it took.
The war, that recent. The angry Salvadoran introducing me to Jon Sobrino.
Take off your rings willingly so we don’t have to cut your fingers off.
The murdered vigilante.
The trips back and forth. Medardo. Habitat. Mary Campbell. The Subversive Cross.
Holden Village. Repeated trips. Michoacán. La Cuestita. El Rancho.
Dizziness. Vertigo. Between the balance and the fall. Catch of the breath.

Para qué sirve la ruda?

La planta de ruda: cómo usarla para proteger tu hogar
hierba de los mil atributos.
absorbe con gran facilidad las corrientes energéticas
que puedan perturbar la armonía en el hogar.
Sus hojas tienas propiedades medicinales
procesos digestivos ya que estimula la función billar.

Jim Bodeen
Holden Village/La Cuestita/San Salvador/Yakima/El Salvador
2003--2015
                                                                                                                                            







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