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And Christa will rise
I had just finished reading Sor Juana de la Cruz by Michelle Gonzalez. Learning about this first woman theologian of the Americas and her struggle with patriarchy was still fresh in my mind when I found an advertisement on shiny white paper in the mail. The back side was blank, so I began throwing colors on it and folding it to make an “image and likeness” painting. Next I inserted a cross and before you know it Christa was there. Why wouldn’t she appear? Two thousand years after the death of Jesus, women have followed him in their sufferings under the Romans even to the cross. Sor Juana was just one of them. But like Jesus, women too are rising from the dead while the men hide out again in their upper rooms.
Painted Ponderings 
Some would call this painting blasphemous…and BLASPHEMOUS it has been that women have been nailed to the cross of Love over and over again…. by the abuse and dismissal of men who have never taken Jesus’ message of a love and equality seriously.
Reblogged this on CATHOLIC, Non-Roman Western Style and commented:
NO MORE EXCLUDING WOMEN FROM PRIESTHOOD!
NO MORE SACRIFICING WOMEN ON THE CROSS OF THE WEAK MALE EGO THAT NEEDS TO FEEL SUPERIOR TO WOMEN!
NO MORE WOMEN SACRIFICED TO MALE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION!
And may Christa not be taken down and laid in a tomb to be forgotten. Let the blasphemy shock us into demanding that women no longer continue to pay for the sins of the world..
Check out painting by Melinda Bielas: