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		<title>May we defend the dignity of all creation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>God of life, who cares for all creation, and calls us to justice and peace,<br />
may our security not come from arms, but from respect.<br />
May our force not be of violence, but of love.<br />
May our wealth not be in money, but in sharing.<br />
May our path not be of ambition, but of justice.<br />
May our victory not be from vengeance, but in forgiveness.<br />
May our unity not be in the quest of power, but in vulnerable witness to do your will.<br />
Open and confident, may we defend the dignity of all creation, sharing, today and forever, the bread of solidarity, justice and peace.<br />
This we ask in the name of Jesus, your holy Son, our brother, who, as victim of our violence, even from the heights of the cross, gave forgiveness to us all.<br />
Amen.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #222222;">God of life, who cares for all creation, and calls us to justice and peace,<br />
</span><span style="color: #222222;">may our security not come from arms, but from respect.<br />
</span><span style="color: #222222;">May our force not be of violence, but of love.<br />
</span><span style="color: #222222;">May our wealth not be in money, but in sharing.<br />
</span><span style="color: #222222;">May our path not be of ambition, but of justice.<br />
</span><span style="color: #222222;">May our victory not be from vengeance, but in forgiveness.<br />
</span><span style="color: #222222;">May our unity not be in the quest of power, but in vulnerable witness to do your will.<br />
</span><span style="color: #222222;">Open and confident, may we defend the dignity of all creation, sharing, today and forever, the bread of solidarity, justice and peace.<br />
</span><span style="color: #222222;">This we ask in the name of Jesus, your holy Son, our brother, who, as victim of our violence, even from the heights of the cross, gave forgiveness to us all.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Amen.<hr /></span><span style="color: #222222;">O Dio della vita, che ti prendi cura di tutta la creazione e ci chiami alla giustizia e alla pace,<br />
fa’ che la nostra sicurezza non venga dalle armi, ma dal rispetto,<br />
la nostra forza non dalla violenza, ma dall’amore,<br />
la nostra ricchezza non dal denaro, ma dalla condivisione,<br />
il nostro cammino non sia di ambizione, ma di giustizia,<br />
la nostra vittoria non venga dalla vendetta, ma dal perdono,<br />
la nostra unità non dalla sete di potere, ma dalla testimonianza vulnerabile di compiere la tua volontà.<br />
Fa’ che possiamo, aperti e fiduciosi, difendere la dignità di tutta la creazione, condividendo, oggi e sempre, il pane della solidarietà, della giustizia e della pace.<br />
Te lo chiediamo nel nome di Gesù, tuo Figlio Santo, nostro fratello, che, vittima della nostra violenza, anche inchiodato alla croce, ha donato a tutti noi il perdono. Amen!</span></p>
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		<title>Ecumenism and peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>(We have) a double task: the heart of ecumenism must be peace and the heart of peace must be ecumenism. To meet this double challenge, Christians should reflect together on</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(We have) a double task: the heart of ecumenism must be peace and the heart of peace must be ecumenism.</p>
<p>To meet this double challenge, Christians should reflect together on what might be “a theology of peace”. In the second half of the twentieth century, thanks to prophetic voices such as those of the Holy Pope John XXIII and Patriarch Athenagoras, and also thanks to the action of the World Council of Churches, has been made an important progress on the way to root deeply the Biblical message of peace in the collective life of humanity showing its necessary link with the promotion of justice and respect for creation.</p>
<p>But perhaps today we have a more urgent need to rediscover the foundations of a spirituality of peace. In fact, as pointed out by Pope Francis in his Exhortation, “<em>we find that the locus of this reconciliation of differences is within ourselves, in our own lives, ever threatened as they are by fragmentation and breakdown”</em> (EG 229). It is in Christ, who is “<em>He Himself peace</em>” (Eph 2:14), that the Christians of the East and the West have drawn this spirituality of peace, common to both Byzantine <a href="https://www.google.it/search?hl=it&amp;rlz=1T4TSEA_itIT424IT424&amp;q=hesychasm&amp;spell=1&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=k9ISVPTiM43_PIWhgPAP&amp;ved=0CBwQvwUoAA">hesychasm</a> and Benedictine monasticism. It is in this spirituality that many “witnesses of peace”, such as San Francesco d’Assisi, San Nersès of Lambron, Saint Silouan of Mount Athos and many others show and realize already now the unity of the Church.</p>
<p><em>From the message of Card. Kurt Koch, President of the Papal Council for Christian Unity to Brother Enzo Bianchi, Prior of Bose, to the brothers and sisters of the Monastery of Bose and the participants to the XXII International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox spirituality. (Bose – 3/6 September, 2014)</em></p>
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		<title>Participating in the building of Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Through the centuries Europe has developed a primarily Christian character in religious and cultural terms. However, Christians have failed to prevent suffering and destruction from being inflicted by Europeans, both</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Through the centuries Europe has developed a primarily Christian character in religious and cultural terms. However, Christians have failed to prevent suffering and destruction from being inflicted by Europeans, both within Europe and beyond. We confess our share of responsibility for this guilt and ask God and our fellow human beings for forgiveness.</span></p>
<p>Our faith helps us to learn from the past, and to make our Christian faith and love for our neighbours a source of hope for morality and ethics, for education and culture, and for political and economic life, in Europe and throughout the world.</p>
<p>The churches support an integration of the European continent. Without common values, unity cannot endure. We are convinced that the spiritual heritage of Christianity constitutes an empowering source of inspiration and enrichment for Europe. On the basis of our Christian faith, we work towards a humane, socially conscious Europe, in which human rights and the basic values of peace, justice, freedom, tolerance, participation and solidarity prevail. We likewise insist on the reverence for life, the value of marriage and the family, the preferential option for the poor, the readiness to forgive, and in all things compassion.</p>
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<p>As churches and as international communities we have to counteract the danger of Europe developing into an integrated West and a disintegrated East, and also take account of the North-South divide within Europe. At the same time we must avoid Eurocentricity and heighten Europe&#8217;s sense of responsibility for the whole of humanity, particularly for the poor all over the world.</p>
<p>(Charta Oecumenica)</p>
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<h2>Contribuire a plasmare l’Europa</h2>
<p>Nel corso dei secoli si è sviluppata un&#8217; Europa caratterizzata sul piano religioso e culturale prevalentemente dal cristianesimo. Nel contempo, a causa delle deficienze dei cristiani, si è diffuso molto male in Europa ed al di là dei suoi confini. Confessiamo la nostra corresponsabilità in tale colpa e ne chiediamo perdono a Dio e alle persone.</p>
<p>La nostra fede ci aiuta ad imparare dal passato e ad impegnarci affinché la fede cristiana e l’amore del prossimo irraggino speranza per la morale e l’etica, per l’educazione e la cultura, per la politica e l’economia in Europa e nel mondo intero.</p>
<p>Le Chiese promuovono una unificazione del continente europeo. Non si può raggiungere l’unità in forma duratura senza valori comuni. Siamo persuasi che l’eredità spirituale del cristianesimo rappresenti una forza ispiratrice arricchente l’Europa. Sul fondamento della nostra fede cristiana ci impegniamo per un’Europa umana e sociale, in cui si facciano valere i diritti umani ed i valori basilari della pace, della giustizia, della libertà, della tolleranza, della partecipazione e della solidarietà. Insistiamo sul rispetto per la vita, sul valore del matrimonio e della famiglia, sull’opzione prioritaria per i poveri, sulla disponibilità al perdono ed in ogni caso sulla misericordia.</p>
<p>In quanto Chiese e comunità internazionali dobbiamo contrastare il pericolo che l’Europa si sviluppi in un Ovest integrato ed un Est disintegrato. Anche il divario Nord-Sud deve essere tenuto in conto. Occorre nel contempo evitare ogni forma di eurocentrismo e rafforzare la responsabilità dell’Europa nei confronti dell’intera umanità, in particolare verso i poveri di tutto il mondo.</p>
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		<title>Prayer for Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Father of mankind, Lord of history,<br />
watch over Europe<br />
to whom you have sent philosophers, legislators, wise people,<br />
Forerunners in faith of your Son, who has died and has risen again</p>
<p>Watch over these peoples, evangelized by Peter and Paul,<br />
by the prophets, by the monks, by the saints;<br />
watch over these regions watered by the blood of the martyrs<br />
and touched by the voice of the Reformers.<br />
Watch over  the peoples united by so many ties<br />
but also divided, over time, by hatred and war.<br />
Help us working for a Europe of the Spirit<br />
founded not only on economic agreements,<br />
but also on human and eternal values.</p>
<p>A Europe capable of ethnic and ecumenical reconciliations,<br />
ready to welcome the stranger, respectful of each person’s dignity.<br />
Grant that we assume our duty with hope<br />
to inspire and promote an understanding among peoples<br />
which ensures in all the continents,<br />
justice and bread, freedom and peace.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Father of mankind, Lord of history,<br />
watch over Europe<br />
to whom you have sent philosophers, legislators, wise people,<br />
Forerunners in faith of your Son, who has died and has risen again</p>
<p>Watch over these peoples, evangelized by Peter and Paul,<br />
by the prophets, by the monks, by the saints;<br />
watch over these regions watered by the blood of the martyrs<br />
and touched by the voice of the Reformers.<br />
Watch over  the peoples united by so many ties<br />
but also divided, over time, by hatred and war.<br />
Help us working for a Europe of the Spirit<br />
founded not only on economic agreements,<br />
but also on human and eternal values.</p>
<p>A Europe capable of ethnic and ecumenical reconciliations,<br />
ready to welcome the stranger, respectful of each person’s dignity.<br />
Grant that we assume our duty with hope<br />
to inspire and promote an understanding among peoples<br />
which ensures in all the continents,<br />
justice and bread, freedom and peace.<br />
<em><br />
Card. Carlo Maria Martini</em></p>
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<h2>Preghiera per l&#8217;Europa</h2>
<p>Padre dell&#8217;umanità, Signore della storia,<br />
guarda questo continente europeo<br />
al quale tu hai inviato tanti filosofi, legislatori e saggi,<br />
precursori della fede nel tuo Figlio morto e risorto.<br />
Guarda questi popoli evangelizzati da Pietro e Paolo,<br />
dai profeti, dai monaci, dai santi;<br />
guarda queste regioni bagnate dal sangue dei martiri<br />
e toccate dalla voce dei Riformatori.<br />
Guarda i popoli uniti da tanti legami<br />
ma anche divisi, nel tempo, dall&#8217;odio e dalla guerra.<br />
Donaci di lavorare per una Europa dello Spirito<br />
fondata non soltanto sugli accordi economici,<br />
ma anche sui valori umani ed eterni.<br />
Una Europa capace di riconciliazioni etniche ed ecumeniche,<br />
pronta ad accogliere lo straniero, rispettosa di ogni dignità.<br />
Donaci di assumere con fiducia il nostro dovere<br />
di suscitare e promuovere un&#8217; intesa tra i popoli<br />
che assicuri per tutti i continenti,<br />
la giustizia e il pane, la libertà e la pace.<br />
<em><br />
Card. Carlo Maria Martini</em></p>
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