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Colin had a deep conviction that to be called ‘Marist’ was a source of hope and also a challenge to take up a certain way of thinking and acting. That way was summed up in a key image which Colin put to his followers: Mary in the early church.

 

                            A reading from the Constitution of the Second Vatican Council   

  on the Church in the Modern World. N 78.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                          

 

The common good of men is in its basic sense determined by the eternal law, but the concrete demands of this eternal good are constantly changing as time goes on. Hence peace is not something that can ever be attained once and for all, but something which must be constantly built up. Furthermore, because the human will is unstable and enfeebled by sin, peace will only be safeguarded by the discipline that each individual constantly exercises over himself and by the vigilance of lawful authority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peace on earth, which arises from love of one’s neighbour, symbolizes and derives from the peace of Christ, who proceeds from God the Father. By his cross the incarnate Son, the Prince of Peace, reconciled all men with God. In this way he restored the unity of all men in one people and one body: he abolished hatred by his own death and, when he had been lifted on high in the resurrection, he poured the Spirit of love into the hearts of men. 

This is the reason why all Christians are urgently summoned to practice the truth in love and to join with all true peacemakers in appealing for peace and in working to achieve it. In that spirit, we cannot fail to express our admiration for those who renounce the use of violence to vindicate their rights and who resort to those means of defence which are also available to weaker parties, provided that this can be done without injury to the rights and duties of others or of the community itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Through the Resurrection of your Son,

The world is filled with light –

 

through the gift of your Spirit may your light

shine out in your Church.

  •                    Lord send us the light of your Spirit.

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    Through your Holy Spirit, the disciples remembered

    all that Jesus taught them –

    pour out that Spirit on the Church

    that she might be faithful to that teaching.

                      Lord send us the light of your Spirit.