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MESSAGES OF PEACE
MESSAGES OF PEACE
PEACE
Message for the World Day of Peace, I wish to offer to
everyone, individuals and peoples, my best wishes for
a life filled with joy and hope. In the heart of every man
and woman is the desire for a full life, including that
irrepressible longing for fraternity which draws us to
fellowship with others and enables us to see them not as
enemies or rivals, but as brothers and sisters to be accepted.
GOD BLESS
GLOBALIZATION
Globalization makes us neighbours, but does not
make us brothers. The many situations of inequality,
poverty and injustice, are signs not only of a profound
lack of fraternity, but also of the absence of a culture
of solidarity. New ideologies, characterized by rampant
individualism, egocentrism and materialistic consumerism,
weaken social bonds, fuelling that “throw away” mentality
which leads to contempt abandonment of the weakest and
those considered “useless."
PEACE AND LOVE
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.
When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we
are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with
passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn
to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our
imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we
cannot fully open to our ability to love others or
our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes
for a better world rest in the fearlessness and
open-hearted vision of people who embrace life
PEACE TO WORLD
Message for the World Day of Peace, I wish to offer to
everyone, individuals and peoples, my best wishes for
a life filled with joy and hope. In the heart of every man
and woman is the desire for a full life, including that
irrepressible longing for fraternity which draws us to
fellowship with others and enables us to see them not as
enemies or rivals, but as brothers and sisters to be accepted.
WORLD PEACE
Let's build a world where there is more justice,
brotherhood and peace among people and a lot of solidarity.
This is not a fantasy, nor speak with precipitation.
If everyone does a little, we will soon be a nation
fairer and more heart
JUSTICE
In many parts of the world, there seems to be no
end to grave offences against fundamental human
rights, especially the right to life and the right to
religious freedom. The tragic phenomenon of human
trafficking, in which the unscrupulous prey on the
lives and the desperation of others, is but one unsettling
example of this. Alongside overt armed conflicts are the
less visible but no less cruel wars fought in the economic
and financial sectors with means which are equally destructive
of lives, families and businesses.
THE WORLD
In the dynamics of history, and in the diversity of ethnic
groups, societies and cultures, we see the seeds of a
vocation to form a community composed of brothers and
sisters who accept and care for one another. But this
vocation is still frequently denied and ignored in a world
marked by a “globalization of indifference” which makes
us slowly inured to the suffering of others and closed in
on ourselves.
DIVERSITH
In the dynamics of history, and in the diversity
of ethnic groups, societies and cultures, we see the
seeds of a vocation to form a community composed
of brothers and sisters who accept and care for
one another. But this vocation is still frequently
denied and ignored in a world marked by a
“globalization of indifference” which makes us
slowly inured to the suffering of others and
closed in on ourselves.
THERE SEEMS TO BE END
In many parts of the world, there seems to be no
end to grave offences against fundamental human
rights, especially the right to life and the right to
religious freedom. The tragic phenomenon of human
trafficking, in which the unscrupulous prey
on the lives and the desperation of others, is but one
unsettling example of this. Alongside overt armed
conflicts are the less visible but no less cruel wars
fought in the economic and financial sectors with
means which are equally destructive of lives,
families and businesses.
ETHICAL SYSTEMS
At the same time, it appears clear that contemporary
ethical systems remain incapable of producing authentic
bonds of fraternity, since a fraternity devoid of reference
to a common Father as its ultimate foundation is unable
to endure. True brotherhood among people presupposes
and demands a transcendent Fatherhood. Based on the
recognition of this fatherhood, human fraternity is consolidated:
each person becomes a “neighbour” who cares for others.
FRATERNITY MY FRIENDS
Fraternity is an essential human quality, for we are
relational beings. A lively awareness of our relatedness
helps us to look upon and to treat each person as a true
sister or brother; without fraternity it is impossible to
build a just society and a solid and lasting peace. We
should remember that fraternity is generally first learned
in the family, thanks above all to the responsible and
complementary roles of each of its members, particularly
the father and the mother. The family is the wellspring of all
fraternity, and as such it is the foundation and the first
pathway to peace, since, by its vocation, it is meant to spread
its love to the world around it.
REALISM IN POLITICS
The necessary realism proper to politics and economy
cannot be reduced to mere technical know-how bereft
of ideals and unconcerned with the transcendent dimension
of man. When this openness to God is lacking, every human
activity is impoverished and persons are reduced to objects
that can be exploited. Only when politics and the economy
are open to moving within the wide space ensured by the One
who loves each man and each woman, will they achieve an
ordering based on a genuine spirit of fraternal charity and
become effective instruments of integral human development
and peace.