Peace
Be with You
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| picture by Lawrence OP |
Peace is the word more proclaim all the time. Recently more and more proclaim
because everywhere the people live without peace. They have not the peace. We can
see the conflict in any country, Syrian, Russian, Ukraine, Pakistan, and so on.
In this country, the people live without peace. They live in the chaos.
The
conflict creates the fear among the people. They fear because no one knows when
the enemy come, when the war happen. In Yogyakarta City, Indonesia at 29 May ago,
a group of people dressed in gamis/jammies
(long clothes usually worn by Arab) attacked the Catholic people when they are
praying. This case makes the people fear.
This
incident precisely the incident of the disciples. They fear the Jews. But,
Jesus comes to them when they are fearful. Jesus great them, “Peace be with
you.” Yes, no peace in the fear. I think, how suffer the people live in the
conflict area. There is not peace there. Many of us today live without peace.
Maybe we have the job, the task, where we get the salary monthly but it is not
enough to gain the peace. The peace is felt in the heart and not only the peace
physical.
Last
night, in the vigil of the Pentecost Sunday, the bishop of Parma Mgr Enrico
Solmi repeated the invitation of the Pope Francis. The Pope invited us to pray
for peace. Pope Francis has invited the presidents of Israel and Palestine,
Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, to join him in a prayer encounter at the
Vatican Saturday 6 June 2014. We hope there more people try to create the peace
in our world.
Don’t
worry if we seldom fail to create the peace. Actually, the fear more big than
the peace. The fear dominated our heart, so that no peace in our self.
The
Holy Spirit helps us to liberate our heart from the fear. The disciples receive
the Holy Spirit from Jesus—read in the Gospel of the Pentecost Sunday, today. It
liberated them from the fear. Finally, the disciples are rejoicing. They rejoice
because receive the Holy Spirit and see Jesus. Let us pray for the people haven’t
the peace, partly that live in the conflict area, in the war area.
Gordi
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