{"id":4445,"date":"2025-08-28T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:30:44","slug":"a-spiritual-garden-a-maryknoll-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/a-spiritual-garden-a-maryknoll-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spiritual Garden: A Maryknoll Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/06\/charity-that-strives-for-diginity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Siyumbu M.M.&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time<br>August 31, 2025<br><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/083125.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a; Lk 14:1, 7-14<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lived in Cochabamba, Bolivia, as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2019\/03\/bolivians-prepare-kenyan-seminarian-siyumbu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my formation and preparation for ordination<\/a> to the Maryknoll missionary priesthood. Having lived with the Dazas, a wonderful host family, during my language school program, I moved into our Formation House in a different part of the city. From here, I would walk to the city\u2019s Cathedral during the weekdays for the 7am morning Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came to be familiar with many of the traders on the streets. There was a lady who sold delicious <em>tucumanas<\/em> (empanadas). Many others sold everyday items from makeshift stalls and <em>tienditas<\/em>&nbsp;(small retail shops) that lined the streets. Shopkeepers sold assorted items ranging from auto spare parts to apparel to stationery. We would wave our \u201cbuenos d\u00edas\u201d as I walked by. We did not know each other well, yet it seemed to me that we looked forward to seeing each other each morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed a curious thing during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2021\/09\/responding-to-gods-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">those first days in Cochabamba<\/a>. Whenever two or more people were at a stall, one would lightly pinch the other, then whisper something as I passed. This happened with a discernible regularity. I spoke about these observations with some of my language school teachers. I learned that my sighting was an occasion to wish luck to a friend or colleague. What was whispered was \u201csuerte para ti\u201d (good luck to you)! I learned that this was done whenever someone of African descent was seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It occurred to me that I was treading into the spiritual garden of a people. Further, I could, as the first reading from the Book of Wisdom explains, prod deeper into this cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve lived among cultures where the sighting of a person of African descent would prompt similar but less benign responses. There was something spiritual about this Bolivian cultural response to difference and to the difference of someone of African descent. There are a variety of ways of interpreting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/083125.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The reading from Hebrews<\/a> invites us to adopt an attitude of reverence. This is helpful when approaching the \u2018other\u2019 person, culture and situation. Cultures, just like persons, are imbued with a mystery that points to God, to the creator of all. Sure, this mystery is mediated through human ways, still, the humble disciple of Christ will choose to sit where she\u2019ll be invited into deeper truths \u2013 in God as God reveals Godself in a culture or in a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mediated through the \u2018other\u2019 we are invited to experience the awesomeness of God; the presence of Jesus Christ through the \u2018blazing fire\u2019 manifested by South American&nbsp;<em>cari\u00f1o<\/em> or other occurrences that may appear to be what Saint Paul calls \u201cgloomy darkness.\u201d The darkness of polarity that impedes the practice of humility. The darkness of divisiveness that brings contention and controversy to everything rather than allow for the creation of unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the blazing fires and gloomy darkness of our lives, the Letter to the Hebrews invites us to humbly discern God\u2019s presence in the particular circumstances of our lives. God beckons to us to humbly approach God\u2019s awesomeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Maryknoll Father John Siyumbu, originally from the Diocese of Bungoma in Kenya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2022\/09\/ordination-of-maryknoll-father-john-siyumbu-from-kenya-to-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was ordained on June 3, 2022, <\/a>as the Maryknoll Society\u2019s first vocation from overseas missions where Maryknoll missioners serve. He is currently serving in Tanzania.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This reflection was previously published in 2022. To read other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/category\/scripture-reflections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scripture reflections<\/a>&nbsp;published by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maryknollogc.org\/resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image: A woman sells vegetables in an outdoor market in Cochabamba, Bolivia. 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