The seventh edition of the ‘Asian Mission’ initiative, which this year had as its motto “prepared for the mission; prepared for peace” was comemorated last February. This Catholic event brought together 50 participants, including eight young people from Japan, five from South Korea (more specifically from the diocese of Daejon), and the rest from the Philippine parishes of Nampicuan, San Fabian and Malasiqui, with 30 of these young people being part of the group ‘Servants Missionary Youth’.
Hatred never tires and that’s why Hell has no end. Love, on the other hand, fills the soul with inexhaustible happiness and that’s why Heaven has no end either.
In the fourth and final column of his series titled ‘Praxis of Peace: Peacemaking in our World’, Fr Fausto Gomez OP writes that in Christian perspective, peace is a gift of God and a task for his children. Here is his recipe for peacemaking through a summary of the previous columns on peace and peacemaking in our troubled world.
In the third column of his series titled ‘Praxis of Peace: Peacemaking in our World’, Fr Fausto Gomez OP concludes the recipe for peace with two remaining requirements: sharing something with the poor and praying for peace.
Our task for peace in the world and in our respective country and region is peacemaking! The theory of peace urges us to the practice – or praxis – of peace, that is, to peacemaking in our world.
In his series titled ‘Praxis of Peace: Peacemaking in our World’, Fr Fausto Gomez OP shares a simple recipe to achieve the task.
In his first column, he presents the first two requirements for peacemaking in our world today: focusing on Self and God, and Family and Community.
In his concluding column on the theme of ‘Peace’, Fr Fausto Gomez OP reflects on the meaning of nonviolence and how it can present an ethical path to attain justice and peace.
Can we speak today of a “just war”? In the third column of the series on the theme of ‘Peace’, Fr Fausto Gomez OP questions the application of the Just War Theory in today’s times and calls for methods that will bring in peace.
As human beings, as citizens of a nation and of the world, as Christians we are committed to work for peace – for inner and social peace! And yet, we look at our world and see wars, violence, division, injustice, and oppression.
In this second column of the monthly series on the theme of ‘Peace’, Fr Fausto Gomez OP reflects on the kinds of peace and the four columns of peace (plus one).
As human beings, as citizens of a nation and of the world, as Christians we are committed to work for peace – for inner and social peace! And yet, we look at our world and see wars, violence, division, injustice, and oppression.
Starting this month, O Clarim will publish four monthly columns by Fr Fausto Gomez OP on ‘peace’ from the teachings of the Holy Scripture, Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, and more specifically, from the social doctrine of the Church. In the first column today, Fr Gomez will delve into the meaning of peace.
In a world mired in conflict, internal and external, peace is an elusive dream. It is only by confronting and rooting out our indiscretions and sinfulness, through the grace of Jesus Christ, can we obtain true peace.