{"id":7632,"date":"2016-11-07T18:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T16:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gc36.org\/it\/shalom\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:10:11","slug":"shalom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gc36.org\/it\/shalom\/","title":{"rendered":"Shalom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Father Ignatius to the townspeople of Azpeitia about real peace (1540):
\nLet me repeat that there is no desisting in my earlier desires that you continue\u00a0to enjoy in this life peace and quiet of heart in the true peace of our Lord,\u00a0not in the peace of the world. In the world there are many princes, great men and little men, who make truces and treaties in their external lives but in whom\u00a0true interior peace never enters because they entertain animosities, envy, and\u00a0many other evil desires against the very persons with whom they have come\u00a0to terms. But the peace of our Lord, which is interior, brings along with it those\u00a0other gifts and graces that are necessary to salvation and to eternal life. The\u00a0reason is that this peace makes one love one\u2019s neighbour for the love of one\u2019s
\nCreator and Lord, and with this love one keeps all the commandments of the\u00a0law, as St. Paul says: \u201cHe that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law,\u201d because\u00a0he loves his Creator and Lord and his neighbor for his Lord\u2019s sake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and\u00a0perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way
\nmay peace triumph at last, and may the words \u201cdivision\u201d, \u201chatred\u201d and\u00a0\u201cwar\u201d be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord,
\ndefuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts\u00a0and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be \u201cbrother\u201d, and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace,\u00a0Salaam!<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

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