HAPPY EASTER

Dear Friends of the rural world

This is the day that The lord has made, let’s rejoice and be glad in it (ps 118\26) This is The day of The Resurrection, The Day of The victory of Lambs on the wolfs, the proclaim of new hope for all, for us, who raised with Jesus Christ, The Risen lord. Happy Easter for you, and for your families.

If we think in our lives, we ‘ll find many difficult issues to be understood, or to be accepted in our daily life, meaning of life and death, of course, life has a meaning but at the same time, every one has a time to die, to leave this world, to go and live the eternal life which he was invited to. By this way the death has no meaning. If we have one of our dear relatives who suffers from cancer, that means he suffers from sharp pain, and may be die through a short time, that means too that we ‘ll miss him, what’s the meaning here? There is no meaning. Only one who gave meaning to death, his death has a deep meaning, because his death gave us life; life from death, this is the meaning of Passover; is to pass from case to case, from low to high, from land to heaven, and from time to time.

In our local and global level we experience many crises, some are easy, and some are serious. if we stopped against that crisis, without searching for the meaning behind our lives, we will not grow, if we will not look forward to the depth, replying to the call of our lord to Simon peter, to search for the real meaning behind the crisis, the no –meaning. Life behind death, growth behind crisis.

As we celebrate the Resurrection, Easter, we have to think about the relationship between resurrection and solidarity. Resurrection is the fullness of solidarity. Solidarity is an action of honest, comes from humans, towards the lord. Feast is a sign of solidarity between us and the poor, when we live with each other, we have to be united in solidarity, and we do this in the image of God, who felt our lives, shared us our humanity, and invited us to share him his theology, He united in solidarity with us when he came to our world since more than 2000 years, to save us, to redeem us, to raise us from hell to paradise of Glory, his solidarity with us, his searching for a world of love, justice, mercy from people to people led him to death, to be raised on his modest throne, on a wood of cross. Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet, a man powerful in deed and in word before God and all the people; and who the chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death and crucified him. We had hope that he was the one to ransom Israel; but now, also with all these things (lu 24\20-21) This is the way of thinking that the two disciples of Emmaus read the story of salvation. But in fact, he succeeded in his mission of love, of salvation for all. He found the meaning of life from the no meaning of death.

Corresponding to the issues of our concern, Economy solidarity can’t be appreciate if we can’t united in solidarity with ourselves, to be one with him, on the vertical axis, and to be one with ourselves on the horizontal axis, then we can appreciate these issues.

• • • • • • • • Happy Easter

Fr Abraam Maher

International Chaplain

Dear Friends

Warm loving greetings and Happy Easter also from the secretariat.

As you already know, we will be soon in the process of preparation of the World meeting. The Executive Committee members will be together in Assesse for some days by the end of April to precise the theme of the study session, to select the host country and to work out the way to raise the necessary funds for the same.

This is one of the reason of this short message.  We will come back soon to you with all relevant information in regards with the RM10 and by the end of June with the 2 first numbers of the VMR.

Wishing you again a very happy Easter in the joy of the resurrection !

Daisy Herman

Secretary general