Evangelizing through mercy and holiness
As she wrapped up a Saturday morning praise session based on this year’s theme of “Live Mercy, Be Holy,” keynote speaker Sister Teresa Maya, CCVI, went to the podium before thousands gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center Arena on the second day of the 2020 Religious Education Congress (REC) to talk about her grandmother.
In a moving bilingual talk entitled “Called to Compassion: Witnesses of God’s Mercy in the World,” the former president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) first brought up a quote from Archbishop José H. Gomez in the 2020 REC program: “Holiness means loving God and loving our neighbor, right where we are, in the middle of the world.”