الراهبة في خيمة: تعرف على الأخت التي تتبع الحج الإفخارستي الوطني

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Sister Mary Rose Chinn of the Handmaids of the Triune God attends a Byzantine Divine Liturgy at Holy Protection of the Mother of God Byzantine Catholic Church in downtown Denver on June 8, 2024. / Credit: Kate Quiñones/CNA

دنفر، كولو.، يونيو 12، 2024 / 16:00 مساء (CNA).

في حياتها اليومية ، تعمل الأخت ماري روز تشين من خادمات الثالوث مع أطفال المدارس العامة في فينتورا ، كاليفورنيا ، وهي مدينة ساحلية شمال غرب لوس أنجلوس. ولكن هذا الصيف، شقت الطريق إلى المخيم واتبعت يسوع في الإفخارستيا.

When Chinn learned that a group of “Perpetual Pilgrims” would be making its way from California to Indiana on the Junipero Serra Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, she wanted to be a part of it.

Equipped with her car, a tent, and the “angels and saints in heaven,” Chinn follows the online schedule of the pilgrims, who are accompanying Jesus in the Eucharist on foot and by van on their way to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, where the National Eucharistic Congress will be held July 17–21.

Along the way, she’s offering up the prayer intentions of the people in Ventura and offers to pray for the prayer intentions of those she meets from city to city and parish to parish.

Chinn’s days are a blend of meeting people, visiting different parishes, and attending processions followed by the solitude of camping.

“It gives me a time to be quiet and in solitude with him [Jesus] during the times that I’m not in the churches or in the parish,” she told CNA. “Because there’s a lot of RV campers but very few tent campers anymore.”

Chinn has gone on many types of pilgrimages before, whether with an organization or “making her own way.” With some backpacking experience, she said she felt prepared for this pilgrimage. 

“The opportunity of a pilgrimage, for me, is like a microcosm of daily life, where you really have to listen and just trust in God’s providence for the next step,” she said. “You can make your plans … but then you turn your plans over to the Lord and see how he works out the day. That’s how it’s been.”

عن طريق الإفخارستيا

“My intention for the pilgrimage was to give thanks to the Lord for his gift of himself in holy Communion,” Chinn explained. 

Chinn, a convert to the Catholic Church, said another reason she joined the pilgrimage was because “it was really Jesus in the Eucharist that brought me into the Catholic Church.” 

“Because when I went to Mass with a friend, I was reading the Old Testament, wondering what happened to all the Old Testament laws regarding sacrifice, the Protestant churches, and there was no sacrifice,” she explained. “But as soon as I attended Mass, I saw Jesus in sacrifice.” 

على الرغم من توجيهها في البداية في المسيحية من قبل العنصرة ، إلا أنها تعلمت المزيد عن الإيمان من كاهن كاثوليكي قبل أن تنضم في النهاية إلى الكنيسة الكاثوليكية.

“Of all my years of growing up, I had a lot of Catholic friends, but nobody ever shared Mass with me. They never invited me to Mass,” she said. “I was introduced to Christianity by customers at my parents’ restaurants who were Pentecostal Christians, and they invited me to their church. That’s how I first encountered Jesus in his word and through prayer and through the possibility of the Holy Spirit bringing healing, inflaming your life.”

عندما واجهت القرار بين الكاثوليكية والعنصرية، سحبها الإفخارستيا نحو الإيمان الكاثوليكي. 

“And so at the end, then, in my prayer, I asked Jesus, ‘So had I really been given the gift of faith to believe in Jesus in the Eucharist, on the altar in the tabernacle?’ and I said ‘Yes,’” she recalled. “So, how could I walk away from the Catholic Church? Because it would be denying Jesus.”

Along the pilgrimage, Chinn said she intends “to pray and ask God’s forgiveness — the old word is ‘reparation’ — for those who do not believe in his real presence and [I am] praying for their conversion to be able to come back.”

Chinn said that since the COVID-19 pandemic she noticed that many people haven’t returned to Mass. She prays that they may “worship God as Jesus has given himself to us.”

"أجد أن هناك ميلًا ، وهو دائم ، وهو في جميع الأبرشيات ، حيث سيرسل الآباء [أطفالهم] للأسرار المقدسة ، لكنهم بعد ذلك لا يمارسون الإيمان على أساس منتظم" ، أوضح شين. "وأدعوهم أن يقعوا في حب يسوع والمناولة المقدسة، والإفخارستيا، وذلك القداس، ليكونوا ثابتين ومستمرين". 

"إذا أدركوا فقط أنه يجعل الحياة أكثر استقرارًا" ، تابعت. "الرب معهم في كل وقت - هذه العلاقة يمكن أن تتطور".

"أعتقد أن أكثر ما أصابني هو عدد الأبرشيات التي يصل إليها الحج". نحن، في بعض الأحيان على الأقل أيام الأحد، نمر بثلاث مدن أبرشية على الأقل". ‫ثم هناك "بينيديكشن". ‫لذا تلقيت "بينيديكشن" ثلاث مرات على الأقل في اليوم.‬

عندما سئلت عن ما الذي برز لها حتى الآن ، أوضحت تشين أنه كان إيمان الناس الذين تقابلهم.

"أجد ، لأنني قادر على الاختلاط مع الأبرشية ، إنهم بالتأكيد أناس مؤمنون". "هناك هوية، على الرغم من أنهم لا يعرفونني، وأنا لا أعرفهم. لقد كانوا سخاء جدا في المشي معي.

"الإيمان الأساسي للشعب لا يزال هناك"، قال تشين. على الرغم من أنهم يقولون إن الكاثوليكية في الولايات المتحدة تتضاءل ، هناك جزء قوي من الناس الذين لا يزالون مؤمنين ، والذين هم على استعداد للخروج أكثر ومن ثم عبادة الله - وخاصة يسوع في الإفخارستيا.

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