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Bringing Peace at Christmas |
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| Nipawin - Wednesday - December 24, 2003 - by: Mario deSantis | |||||||
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Last Spring I visited my Mamma while she was staying at my sister’s Bice’s convent in Rome. At that time I had my camera with me but for some reasons I took only one picture while at the convent, and that happened when visiting the chapel near my Mamma’s bedroom I saw the poster with Pope John Paul II’s saying | ||||||
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"Mai più violenza! Mai più guerra! Mai più terrorismo! In nome di Dio ogni religione porti sulla terra Giustizia e Pace, Perdono e Vita, Amore!". |
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This saying translates into English as | ||||||
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"Violence never again! War never again! Terrorism never again! In the name of God, may every religion bring upon the earth justice and peace, forgiveness and life, love!" |
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| We need to hope for a better world and writer Barbara Kingsolver says that | |||||||
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"the very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope." |
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But with this Free Market we can’t even think for ourselves anymore, and in fact the hope for a better life has degraded to the hope for winning the lottery. | ||||||
| Next year will be the 50th anniversary for my sister Bice to have been with her order of ‘Suore Betlemite di Betancur.’ | |||||||
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Mother Superior Bice with Pope John Paul II in 1989 |
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| Today, at Christmas time, let us relearn how the miracle of Nativity along with our hopes and our work can bring peace to the world. | |||||||
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Presepio Nativity - Bertola Romano |
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