World Day of Peace

In these times of a third world war in pieces
may the pain of children compel us to activate processes of reparation and reconciliation

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Would you believe me, Uncle, if I told you that every night we sleep hungry and cold?
We have no firewood.
Uncle, my father was a martyr before he died and always had firewood.
He always kept us warm!
In my father’s time we were not cold, but now everything is in ruins.
My father is gone and we are here.
OK, Uncle, has your son ever once fallen asleep without eating and being cold?
Of course not!
Then what’s our fault?
All children who have parents sleep in the warm.
I wish our father had taken us with him!

WE HAVE NO OTHER WAY
Father Davide Maria Turoldo

We have, men, no other
way to save ourselves than to become
consciousness of what we are

and confess it to one another
and shout it to the four winds
before the universe,

with decision, and humility
trusting in the pity
of all creatures,

and together believing that this
our disastrous nothingness
commits God himself

to intervene…

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