To the editor:
Women, men and children in more than 170 countries and regions will celebrate World Day of Prayer on Friday, March 6.
This year, the women of the WDP committee of the Bahamas call us to consider Jesus’ words to the disciples after washing their feet: “Do you understand what I have done for you?”
The women of the Bahamas describe what Jesus does when he washes the disciples’ feet as “radical love.” Radical love comes from humility, compassion and commitment. God’s radical love is not static or self-centered; it reaches out and draws others in.
Although we perhaps first associate this country of islands with the pleasures of vacation and images of tropical paradise, there is much more to learn. As we listen to our Bahamian sisters throughout the worship service, we see transformation that occurs when a teen mother finds support to continue her education and raise her child, when a breast cancer survivor and people living with HIV/AIDS find strength to live out their journeys, and when the chains of oppression are broken.
Through this service, the women of WDP Bahamas give us an invitation to beauty and love in the name of the transformation and radical love that Jesus brings to us all.
This year’s service will be held on March 6, with registration starting 9:30 a.m. at the south entrance of St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, 407 S. Warrington Ave., Cecil. This is handicapped accessible. St. John UCC and St. Martin Church ladies of Cecil are co-hosting.
The service will start at 10 a.m. Fellowship and light refreshments will follow.
Invite your friends, family and communities of faith to join the women of the Bahamas in prayer and song to support ecumenical efforts toward justice, peace, healing and wholeness.
The annual offering supports the work of World Day of Prayer USA and helps meet the needs of families in the Bahamas and around the world who are victim of many forms of poverty, violence and injustice.
Helen Kallies,
President,
St. Martin Council of Catholic Women,
Cecil
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