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“We survive as a people because we collectively nurture one another. We respond to need and trauma as a village. This village does not require proximity or sameness to respond. It is based on a sense of shared experiences. Belonging matters. Our lives together matter.” -Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation, Healing the Wounded Village, p. 87

“In our conception of the nature of God lies the kernel of the spiritual life.” -Sr. Joan Chittister

“The wounds that we don’t know about or don’t remember are the deepest. It is through the wormhole of those wounds that we travel to arrive at the peace that surpasses all understanding. Healing is possible because we have the ability to spiritually veer from disaster, and to allow crises to make rather than break us. Ultimately, we can trust the leading of the Holy Spirit as it guides us toward mutual care and love of God, neighbors, and creation.” -Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation, Healing the Wounded Village, p. 78

“It is not the wounding that is ultimate; it is the healing that is always possible. A shift of focus is needed—and if not a shift, then a coexistence of protest and trust that there will be a time when we can put a firm hand on the wound to stop the bleeding, and a time when we will be able to affirm that the trauma occurred but healing is in process.” -Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation, p. 78

“The wounds inflicted on our mother earth are wounds that also bleed in us.” -Pope Francis

“Dr. Bessel van der Kolk makes it clear that not all of us can talk our way toward healing. Some of us can help our bodies release stored memories and pain by singing and dancing ourselves whole. Perhaps reclaiming our stories and rituals will ease the longing that we have inherited, so that we can invite the Spirit to descend.

“No matter how tenuous and invisible the bonds of community may be, individuals must, for their personal and collective safety, work out their survival together. … To be human assumes a certain vulnerability. To need the touch that can also wound is an act of faith.” -Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation, Healing the Wounded Village, p. 67-68

“The infliction of catastrophic harm, as a result of natural or unnatural causes, continues to this day and looms on the horizons of our tomorrows. … Where do you turn when everything that you know and rely upon is shattered or withdrawn? What do you do when there is no reasonable hope of human help because everyone in your community is in the same situation, while others, who are not being subjected to harm, are looking the other way?” -Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation, Healing the Wounded Village, p. 66

“In the blessed darkness, we watch our dreams of conformity morph into a complexity that transforms us together. When crisis breaks us open, we plummet into a contemplative space that does not rely on our effort, but strengthens our collective desire to grow toward God together.” -Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation, Healing the Wounded Village, p. 53

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