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Laura Burke, a Senior Double Major in Theology and English at Creighton University was asked to give part of a talk, about her experience in El Salvador and at the Ignatian Family Teach-In, at the IFTI this year. Here is an excerpt of that speech.
There I sat, a total stranger to all who had suffered such a hateful death. I felt a sorrow so deep, it was as though the crimes that had been committed in the recent past had been committed that day, as though it was the blood of my brothers and sisters that cried out from the earth upon which I sat.
But from this earth grew new life and signs of a new generation are upon us. From the bones of the past grows new life of the future. The people who died for us, will always remain in us, the people of God, but let us not forget those still living with us, those still struggling to survive in a world entrenched in hatred and violence. The peace I felt on that day was that of a connected understanding of the empowering grips of what it meant to be a participant within the People of God.
The rest of Laura's speech can be found here.