{"id":24955,"date":"2026-09-03T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discerningdeacons.org\/?p=24955"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:52:16","slug":"tengo-algo-que-confesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discerningdeacons.org\/es\/i-have-a-confession-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Tengo algo que confesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He sido culpable de descartar a un Doctor de la Iglesia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Iglesia celebra hoy el memorial de San Gregorio Magno.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A diferencia de la mayor\u00eda de los santos, a quienes se recuerda el d\u00eda de su muerte y de su entrada en la vida eterna, el Papa Gregorio Magno es conmemorado en la fecha en que se convirti\u00f3 en papa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En cierto modo, es el aniversario de su servicio p\u00fablico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No busc\u00f3 el poder p\u00fablico. Intent\u00f3 seguir siendo monje. Quiz\u00e1s quer\u00eda evitar las excesivas responsabilidades y preocupaciones que conlleva el liderazgo. Pero acept\u00f3 el cargo cuando se le pidi\u00f3 servir \u2014 y demostr\u00f3 un talento excepcional para el liderazgo, la administraci\u00f3n, la predicaci\u00f3n y la liturgia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Empec\u00e9 a sentir resentimiento hacia Gregorio<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.hofstra.edu\/phyllis-zagano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/09\/2021-A-Tale-of-Two-Deacons-The-Tablet-9-4-21.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> desde que aprend\u00ed que su conmemoraci\u00f3n se hab\u00eda trasladado al 3 de septiembre,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> efectivamente desplazando a Febe del calendario p\u00fablico de santos que celebramos.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mi resentimiento se convirti\u00f3 en amargura cuando aprend\u00ed que fue este mismo San Gregorio quien contribuy\u00f3 a consolidar la reputaci\u00f3n de Mar\u00eda Magdalena como una \"mujer ca\u00edda\" durante una homil\u00eda que pronunci\u00f3 en septiembre de 592. No creo que \u00e9l fue el origen de esta interpretaci\u00f3n err\u00f3nea, pero el peso de sus palabras contribuy\u00f3 a difamar su memoria en nuestra tradici\u00f3n eclesial colectiva. Esto no se corrigi\u00f3 hasta hace poco, cuando el papa Francisco elev\u00f3 su festividad y nos record\u00f3 que santo Tom\u00e1s de Aquino hab\u00eda denominado a Mar\u00eda Magdalena, Ap\u00f3stol de los Ap\u00f3stoles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Volviendo al tema de la pol\u00edtica de las festividades\u2026 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goarch.org\/chapel\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los ortodoxos no tienen reparos en celebrar a varios santos en un mismo d\u00eda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Pero, por alguna raz\u00f3n, en nuestro rito romano se ha tomado una decisi\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En nuestros esfuerzos durante estos \u00faltimos seis a\u00f1os por recordar y restaurar la memoria de Santa Febe, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">diaconisa de la iglesia de Cencrea<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he albergado cierto resentimiento hacia Gregorio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amargura, que ahora comprendo, no me ayuda en mi propio camino como disc\u00edpulo de Jes\u00fas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los santos est\u00e1n llamados a ser gu\u00edas, intercesores, recordatorios \u2014 en su carne y en su realidad hist\u00f3rica\u2014 de que es posible seguir a Jes\u00fas, llegar a ser como \u00e9l, y alcanzar la santidad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hombres y mujeres nos ofrecen testimonios de ello en abundancia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Y, sin embargo, a veces puede parecer un juego de suma cero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Es como si tuvi\u00e9ramos que jurar lealtad: <\/span><b>o est\u00e1s en el equipo de Phoebe o en el de Gregorio.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Como si estuvieran enfrentados.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuando las mujeres han sido borradas de nuestra memoria colectiva de forma hist\u00f3rica, estructural y sistem\u00e1tica \u2014 o colocadas por debajo de los hombres en un pedestal, en lugar de ser reconocidas por lo que sus vidas de servicio p\u00fablico y liderazgo en la Iglesia tienen que ense\u00f1arnos \u2014 la labor de recuperar el testimonio de las mujeres resulta vital, urgente y necesaria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Pero aqu\u00ed es donde tropec\u00e9: deshacer la eliminaci\u00f3n de Phoebe no requiere cancelar a Gregorio.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La homil\u00eda de San Gregorio, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/divineoffice.org\/0903-or\/?date=20260903\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">publicada hoy en el Oficio de las Lecturas,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> nos ofrece el ejemplo de un predicador muy humano, que reconoce sus propias limitaciones \u2014 su tendencia a la distracci\u00f3n y a alejarse de aquello que lo acercara m\u00e1s a Dios.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Se acusa a s\u00ed mismo de ser perezoso, negligente, e incapaz de seguir los consejos que predica a los dem\u00e1s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No se esconde tras la hipocres\u00eda. La denuncia abiertamente.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esto podr\u00eda servir de ejemplo para todas las personas que ocupan puestos de liderazgo y autoridad: reconocer sus limitaciones y no tener miedo de nombrarlas \u2014 practicar la vulnerabilidad incluso desde el p\u00falpito, quiz\u00e1 especialmente all\u00ed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Escribe:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCon mi mente dividida y destrozada por tantos problemas, \u00bfc\u00f3mo puedo meditar o predicar con plenitud sin descuidar el ministerio de proclamar el Evangelio? Adem\u00e1s, en mi posici\u00f3n, a menudo debo comunicarme con hombres mundanos. A veces me dejo llevar por mis palabras, pues si siempre soy severo en mis juicios, los mundanos me evitar\u00e1n y nunca podr\u00e9 atacarlos como quisiera. Por eso, a menudo escucho pacientemente la charla. Y como yo tambi\u00e9n soy d\u00e9bil, me veo arrastrado poco a poco a conversaciones ociosas, y empiezo a hablar con libertad de asuntos que antes habr\u00eda evitado. Lo que antes me resultaba tedioso, ahora lo disfruto.\u201d (Fragmento <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/divineoffice.org\/0903-or\/?date=20260903\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">de una homil\u00eda sobre Ezequiel de San Gregorio Magno, papa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parece que ha confesado que pasa demasiado tiempo mirando las noticias en su muro cuando deber\u00eda estar concentrado en proclamar el Evangelio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As\u00ed pues, este a\u00f1o, en esta bendita festividad \u2014el 3 de septiembre\u2014, afirmemos ambas cosas a la vez:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Celebrar a un hombre santo no requiere suprimir la memoria de una mujer.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Ambos tienen algo que ofrecernos. No necesitamos enterrar uno para resucitar al otro.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Que as\u00ed sea tambi\u00e9n en nuestros ministerios.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Que nos animemos mutuamente, como hermanas y hermanos, compartiendo la profunda comuni\u00f3n nacida en el bautismo y forjada en la misi\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Que cultivemos la conciencia de nosotros mismos para reconocer cu\u00e1ndo repetimos viejos patrones \u2014 patrones que dividen y destruyen lo que deber\u00eda unirnos y fortalecernos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Y que mantengamos la mirada fija en el mismo Evangelio: <\/span><b>Buenas Nuevas para los pobres, liberaci\u00f3n para los cautivos y vida abundante para toda la creaci\u00f3n.<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P.D. \u00a1Espero verte hoy! Nos reuniremos desde toda nuestra red y alrededor del mundo a las 8 a. m. 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