We love peace. We believe in peace. It is our biggest, most important and most urgent dream. Peace saves the world, before anything else. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
| | | LONGING FOR PEACE!We love peace. We believe in peace. It is our biggest, most important and most urgent dream. Peace saves the world, before anything else. Let us not stop building it, let us not stop thinking it is possible. Let us not surrender for a single moment to the thought that this dream is unattainable. Let us put peace at the centre of this newsletter of ours, in the week leading up to Christian Easter, to reaffirm our commitment to realise it every day, starting from the everyday to the greater things.
We speak of peace through the story of forgiveness between two women. Two mothers, one Christian and the other Muslim. One the sister of a martyr, Father Hamel, the other the mother of the man who killed him. We talk about peace in the tireless work of Antonella Lombardo, who through art, particularly dance, has for many years sought to bring harmony between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. We talk about peace, which passes through the concepts of dialogue, encounter and respect for the other, with the work of Living Peace through the event Canto dela Paz. We tell the story of peace with other articles you can access through this newsletter.
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| | | The secret of fraternity lies in the encounter
By Paolo Balduzzi and Annalisa Picardi
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, north of France. We are inside a church, on a sunny summer morning. Father Jacques is celebrating mass, as he presumably does every morning. He is almost 86 years old, his face marked by fatigue and the wrinkled hands of one who has held, for years, other hands to console and rosaries to pray. His eyes, however, are lively, large, and sensitive, conveying a vitality and a certain humor that the elderly French priest usually expresses. It’s hot on that 26th of July. On one hand, the world is following the International Youth Day in Kraków as a sign of fraternity and communion, but on the other hand is shaken by the different terrorist attacks, the last of which happened in France, at Nice, on the 14th of July, when a man deliberately ran over the crowd attending public celebrations for the French national holiday on the Promenade des Anglais... Read more
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| | | Every day at 12 noon, each in their own time zone, they take a minute of silence, prayer or reflection on peace, renewing their personal commitment to build it where they are.
This way, the call for peace goes round the world non-stop, every hour!
The initiative originated from a proposal by Chiara Lubich in 1991, during the Gulf War, to create a 'human chain' that would connect and embrace the whole world. | |
| | | The main objective of the Canto pela Paz Project is to build actions that promote the relationship between religions and churches. It aims to give a leading role to children and young people without distinction of any kind, in perfect harmony. It is they who become agents of change and facilitators of Peace and Unity. They do this through song, music, art, understood as universal languages, capable of breaking down all borders, physical and imaginary. | |
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