{"id":1883,"date":"2026-05-23T09:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2026-05-24T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:29:08","slug":"la-fiesta-de-la-ruah-divina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/en\/2026\/05\/23\/la-fiesta-de-la-ruah-divina\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of the Divine Ruah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\">By Carlos Mendoza-\u00c1lvarez<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fifty days after Easter, Christian communities around the world celebrate the overabundance of divine love, reaping the fruits of the messianic age, gathered with joy in the midst of suffering, as the Hebrew poet says: \u201cThose who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy\u201d (Psalm 126:5).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two thousand years ago, after mourning the brutal execution of Jesus, the Galilean, by the Roman Empire\u2014in collusion with the Temple authorities of Jerusalem and the enraged mob as part of the infernal mimetic cycle\u2014a period of mourning was necessary for his community of friends and companions to grasp the senselessness of the innocent&#039;s death. This question still arises today in the grieving hearts of those who have survived lynchings, both ancient and modern. It is a questioning of the meaning of absence that also beats in the hearts of the Mothers Searching for their disappeared children in Mexico today, a cry that becomes a plea to find their offspring and help them &quot;come home.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebrate that <em>Love is as strong as death<\/em> and, even more, that <em>Love conquers hate<\/em> or that <em>Life resists and re-exists <\/em>At first glance, it seems like an evasion that ignores the suffering of the victims and the urgency of justice. On the contrary, it seems to me that precisely in that <em>hopeful suffering <\/em>The heart beats with the ethical, political, and spiritual indignation of survivors of so much violence. A cry that is expressed in the public squares of Gaza and Tehran, Beirut and Mexico, Kakuma and Dadaab in Kenya, by those who dedicate their bodies, hearts, and minds to the service of life in the midst of death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The celebration of Pentecost is rooted in the joy of peoples who, after confronting horror, are able to go further in healing from trauma and quietly cultivating hope. Without denying the painful past, nor the undeniable need to hold the perpetrators accountable, what matters to those who survived is to stand up and live again with hope. This is what I have been learning, step by step, from the collectives <em>queer\/cuir&nbsp;<\/em> who face gender phobias of various kinds, women facing abuse and femicide, as well as indigenous peoples who strengthen their resistance through processes of autonomy of bodies and territories, from the Inuit in Canada to the Mapuche in the far south of our continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can we celebrate the harvest of the divine Ruah in these times of such profound uncertainty? We are witnessing alarming signs of a return to barbarism at the hands of genocidal governments in the Middle East and Africa, as well as in failed states trapped by the complicity of their rulers with transnational criminal organizations, as is the case in Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. This spiral of genocidal hatred is being transmitted in real time through the attacks of the Israeli Zionist state, which is committing crimes against humanity with the complicity of the United States and the European Union, and the indifference of the international community, against entire populations that stand in the way of its geopolitical power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthening resistance movements must also confront fundamental debates to find the path to utopia in times of dystopia. Collective memory, which lies at the heart of these processes, is now a battleground. Who tells the story and how they tell it are questions the Zapatistas in Chiapas, like the Sumud Global Flotilla, are asking themselves, attempting to give visibility to those who always remain in the shadows of the power that kills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2202<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Dominicans are not exempt from these debates, especially now that we commemorate 500 years since the arrival of the friars to what we now call Veracruz in Mexico, on July 25, 1526. The great feat of evangelization\u2014which undoubtedly brought missionaries inspired by Renaissance utopia and by the zeal for reform of the religious orders to return to their origins of following Christ\u2014was also marked by the <em>libido dominandi <\/em>of the conquerors who followed that maxim of Western modernity so forcefully expressed by Enrique Dussel: conquiro, ergo sum, that is, &quot;I conquer, therefore I am&quot;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When recounting the history of the Dominican presence in this region of the continent\u2014called Tierra Firme by Western navigators and Mesoamerica by later geographers\u2014we cannot forget that a fundamental contradiction marked the evangelizing work of the Dominican friars in the 16th century, as rigorously studied by Friar Daniel Ulloa Herrero in his doctoral dissertation at El Colegio de M\u00e9xico: an observant current led by Friar Domingo de Betanzos, and a prophetic tendency championed by Friar Bartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas. Undoubtedly, there were many nuances between these two tendencies when it came to evangelizing the colonized lands that later gave rise to the golden age of New Spain, the era of the Baroque churches along the Dominican route from Mexico City to Guatemala, traversing the entire central and southern regions of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The splendor of the Baroque art of the convent churches of Puebla, Oaxaca, and Chiapas has shaped a worldview in which Mexico was the <em>axis mundi<\/em> From that early era of modernity, a meeting point between Asia and Europe, Mexico City was also a laboratory for cosmopolitan culture, as Friar Juli\u00e1n Pablo Fern\u00e1ndez liked to say when he was prior of the ruins of the Imperial Convent of Santo Domingo in Mexico City. This era gave birth to a Creole and mestizo culture of universal value, as UNAM historian Jos\u00e9 Rub\u00e9n Romero Galv\u00e1n recounts. However, we cannot forget that this Creole culture subjugated and rendered invisible the Indigenous peoples, as contemporary decolonial readings emphasize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2202<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These reflections come to mind when accompanying a great Tseltal Maya painter, the master Ant\u00fan Kojtom, who is currently creating a mural commemorating the arrival of the Dominicans in Chiapas, on a wall located in the main square of <em>Sots&#039;leb<\/em>, between the temple and the market, in the municipal capital of Zinacant\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the past six months we have been discussing the narrative of the emerging mural, emphasizing what we now call a &quot;dialogue of knowledge&quot; between the Mayan peoples of Chiapas and the Dominican friars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We chose a tone <em>conversational<\/em> The mural depicts scenes that highlight the ancestral religion of the Tsotsil people, particularly their religious roles such as grandmothers, seers, and stewards, with their ritual prayers on the hills, ancestral blessings, and community responsibilities. Through this narrative, we seek to underscore the centuries-old legacy that remains alive today in the pastoral life of the parish of San Lorenzo M\u00e1rtir in Zinacant\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the center of the mural appears the meeting between a Tsotsil steward and a Dominican friar, Fray Bartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas, both standing with the same dignity, exchanging words, each with his symbol of authority, the staff of command for the first, the Bible for the second.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the right, a third scene brings together <em>the prophetic Church <\/em>that has flourished in the Highlands of Chiapas and the Lacandon Jungle from the 16th century to the present day: a group of friars, with Friar Mat\u00edas de C\u00f3rdoba who promoted the independence of Chiapas in the 19th century and Friar Ra\u00fal Vera with <em>jTotik<\/em> Samuel beside him, bishops of the Church of the poor and excluded in the 20th century. Above their heads, like kites moved by the wind of the divine Ruah, are the martyrs of the San Crist\u00f3bal Church of recent decades: Ignacio P\u00e9rez L\u00f3pez, pre-deacon of Chicomuselo, Father Marcelo P\u00e9rez, parish priest of Guadalupe in Jobel, Sim\u00f3n Pedro P\u00e9rez L\u00f3pez, member of Las Abejas de Acteal, and Guadalupe V\u00e1zquez Luna, survivor of the Acteal massacre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the far right appears a highly symbolic scene for the recreation of the historical memory of the Dominican friars in Chiapas, recounting stories of creative rebellion: Friar Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada conversing with a Lacandon sage, both seated on rocks in the shade of a large ceiba tree, the sacred tree of the Maya, with the glyphs of the flowery word emerging from their mouths. The friar moves his hands, signifying eloquence, as he listens. The Lacandon sage touches his heart with one hand and points to Mother Earth with the other. One is dressed in his white habit and black cape; the other, adorned with a jade necklace and white loincloth. They are accompanied by a group of Lacandon women, young people, and children, attentive to the dialogue. This scene seeks to represent the apostolic adventure undertaken by a friar who wanted to go beyond the limits of Christian norms, as Jan de Vos masterfully recounts in his biography of Friar Pedro Lorenzo. What we felt was most important to highlight about the founder of modern Palenque was the audacity of the rebellious friar who &quot;went into nowhere,&quot; as the prior of the Santo Domingo de San Crist\u00f3bal convent told him when Friar Pedro Lorenzo insisted on going into the jungle to find its inhabitants and announce the Good News. Escaping from the convent, he was lost for several years, later reappearing in the land of the Tsendal people, where he founded Palenque. During his apostolic journey, he reached Pochutla and Lake Lacam-Tum, now known as Miramar, a sacred center for the Lacandon people. From that time, some baptismal records are preserved in the diocesan archives, bearing his new name: Friar Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada (Friar Pedro Lorenzo of Nothingness).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When sharing the sketches of the mural in progress with friends, there has been no shortage of praise for the initiative, especially since it was the result of a long dialogue with civil and religious authorities in Zinacant\u00e1n. Others have appreciated that the invited artist is a renowned master of contemporary Mayan art. Some critical voices have pointed out the underrepresentation of women, or the prominence of the friars in the images. For my part, once I had agreed with Maestro Ant\u00fan on the <em>tone<\/em> From the narrative with the importance of the symbols of the two traditions to be represented in the mural, I received with respect and great admiration the visual proposal of the artist who, with his own genius, will undoubtedly leave us a pictorial legacy that is the gift of the Dominican friars to the people of Zinacant\u00e1n in this commemoration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a couple of weeks we will be celebrating this event in San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas and Zinacant\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#039;ll tell you about the new seeds being sown on this path of living memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\">Jobel, May 22, 2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reading for the feast of Pentecost for times of uncertainty and hope, born from the experiences of victims and survivors who resist various forms of violence. It also recounts the story of the commemorative mural depicting the relationship between the Dominican friars in Chiapas and the people of Chiapas, marking the fifth centenary of their arrival on the mainland in 1526. The dialogue of knowledge, which continues to be fostered today in the parish of Zinacant\u00e1n amidst tensions and moments of colonial imposition, is particularly noteworthy.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":266113673,"featured_media":1889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[780850235,780850194,780850261,780850273,780850309,780850193,780850192,780850302,780850278,780850228],"tags":[780850306,164367,780850089,780850263,780850262,780850311,780850310,780849758,780850312],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alteridad","category-chiapas","category-dominicos","category-espiritualidad-intercultural","category-memoria-historica","category-pluralismo-cultural","category-pueblos-originarios","category-resistencias","category-sobrevivientes","category-tiempo-mesianico","tag-antun-kojtom","tag-chiapas","tag-dominicos","tag-fray-bartolome-de-las-casas","tag-fray-pedro-lorenzo-de-la-nada","tag-fray-raul-vera","tag-iglesia-profetica","tag-pentecostes","tag-tradicion-tsotsil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kojtom-Boceto-fray-Lorenzo-con-Lacandones-05-V-26.jpeg?fit=780%2C1040&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgx1jY-un","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1502,"url":"https:\/\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/en\/2025\/12\/20\/el-clamor-de-lo-post-humano\/","url_meta":{"origin":1883,"position":0},"title":"The cry of the (post)human","author":"mendocinomx","date":"20 de December de 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"In 1511, Friar Ant\u00f3n de Montesinos, along with a handful of Dominican friars who had just landed in Quisqueya, the mother of all lands in the Ta\u00edno language, uttered a cry that still resonates in the Western consciousness: \u201cAre these not men?\u201d.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopol\u00edtica y espiritualidad&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopol\u00edtica y espiritualidad","link":"https:\/\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/en\/category\/geopolitica-y-espiritualidad\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Acuarela-del-monumento-a-Montesinos.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Acuarela-del-monumento-a-Montesinos.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Acuarela-del-monumento-a-Montesinos.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Acuarela-del-monumento-a-Montesinos.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Acuarela-del-monumento-a-Montesinos.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1716,"url":"https:\/\/carlosmendozaalvarez.blog\/en\/2026\/03\/07\/la-paz-como-caminos-de-insurreccion-mesianica\/","url_meta":{"origin":1883,"position":1},"title":"Peace as a path to messianic insurrection","author":"mendocinomx","date":"7 de March de 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"By Carlos Mendoza \u00c1lvarez. 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