THE POOR SUFFER THE MOST—EVERYWHERE
Greetings from Kentucky, I do not tell you nearly often enough how I look forward to reading your MAGNET as it comes. The topics are always so real. The many challenges people in every state of life are meeting these days can be breath-taking. Yet somehow the articles so often address them straight on and offer simple yet sometimes profound ways to walk through these struggles, to find hope where little seems evident and to trust in our ever-present compassionate God.
I had to write to you after I read the June issue. Our entire world is suffering from this Covid-19 pandemic. Health issues are in the forefront, of course. But what has risen so clearly and tragically is the systemic injustices that pervade our societies. The particulars may look different, but the foundational root sins are the same. Social inequality oppresses such a large proportion of humanity in developed and developing countries. We each must listen, listen, listen to the poor, to the most vulnerable today and then act in order to bring about systemic change.
I hear about and read about the plight of the migrant workers in India. Perhaps you have heard about the sin of racism in the US which is ravishing our people of coloUr to the point where we are having protests in the streets of many of our cities. These protests start out as peaceful demonstrations and too often end up in riots of violence. Why is it that we could not hear the cry of the poor before we forced them to violence?
Good people from diverse ethnic backgrounds are pleading for peaceful but systemic change. We here in the US must claim our privilege and our complicity in about bringing this oppression. We must now use that privilege to bring about change.
Just thank you for this month’s MAGNET most especially. Thank you for your introductory remarks. They touched me deeply.
May you and your beautiful country of India find health, safety and peace. Please pray that we here in the US may do the same and finally end over 200 years of racism.
Sharon Gray SCN
Kentucky, USA
SOFT COPY PREFERRED
Thanks for sending me the soft copy of MAGNET. The magazine is certainly making great strides forward in excellence, content and quality with each issue. For me personally I prefer the digital version as it is very user-friendly, practical and available at any time. The new editorial board with professionals is certainly a great step in the right direction. All the best! Keep safe and healthy. God bless.
Fr Jose Mathew SDB
Okhla, New Delhi
POSITIVE VIBES
Thanks for the good and inspiring articles and write ups in MAGNET. It has come at a time where we are in need of positive vibrations to face the giant of the time with courage and grit. May God be gracious to you and bless you for all your persistent and intelligent hard work towards its online publication. Prayers assured.
Sr Alphonsa Vattoly SCCG
Hyderabad, Telangana
CONGRATS!
Thank you for your mail. I liked your 7-point Programme to construct a more human Post-Pandemic world.
Hearty congrats and thank you so much.
Most Rev Susaimanickam
Bishop of Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu
Thank you very much for the current issue. MAGNET has no lock down. Congrats! All articles are every inspiring and useful. God bless you and all your efforts.
Sr Philomena Mathew MSMHC
Superior General, Guwahati, Assam.
Received the soft copy of the MAGNET, beautifully planned and edited with inspiring articles, a real nourishment for our souls. Being a former CRI president in Darjeeling and Sikkim I am more than satisfied that CRI is growing and becoming relevant in your able hands. Wishing you all the BEST in your ministry.
Fr Jagdish Parmar SJ
Bangalore, Karnataka
I appreciate MAGNET and, personally, have been a subscriber from its starting, and encouraged many to do so. I thank you for this splendid service to the Indian/global Church. In seminars and discussions I prefer to circulate them as needed, especially among the Clergy or the Religious in India.
Fr Stanislaus Alla SJ
Vidyajyoti, New Delhi
Thank you for MAGNET MAGAZINE. for the month of June 2020. In spite of the lockdown and all the conveniences you have sent the copy with very inspiring and encouraging articles. We as a community will read, discuss, and make plans especially of the seven-point programme you and the team are suggesting for all committed persons, especially religious.
Sr Elsa SCC
Camp-Amravati, Maharashtra
MISSING MAGNET
I did miss MAGNET. Due to lock down we did not get any issue after the one on Lent.
MAGNET is very, very attractive. Attractive title, get up, format and appropriate choice of articles. You and your team are creative, innovative and novel in your ideas. Impeccable English and heart-touching articles. May God bless your hard labour and overwhelm all the contributors of articles with wisdom, insight, inspiration and light so that many more may be enabled to lead a joyous, peaceful and inspiring life, and be fully alive and divine.
Sr Marie Therese BS
Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
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