On the day of: “Fraternity and Peace. A headache for our world”, organized at the level of SCAM (Joint Missionary Service) Madrid
How can we be managers of dialogue for fraternity and peace?
Constates: We are very close to each other, but very far from each other, closer but no more brothers or sisters. However, we know that only dialogue is the way to peace that unites us. Dialogue should have one goal, which is the happiness of both parties. If you want to be happy, you have to want to see the other happy, because in the heart and in the life of a believer, we should live the fraternity in which we believe. But there is a contradiction in our being that makes us do the opposite of what we say or want. As in Rm. 7, and we find ourselves sometimes or many times with hatred, indifference, crisis of the modern way, dream or desire of greatness, impatience, little listening…
It is time to drink from another source that makes us dialogue even with non-Christians, those of other religions, races, tribes, languages, cultures and….
For dialogue to be a path to peace, there are conditions:
- To have a dialogue that does not conceal personal interests,
- That it is not a falsified dialogue,
- That it liberates us interiorly because it is true,
- That it brings, both to the other and to oneself, more peace and more mutual trust.
It is often said “If you want peace, prepare for war” but no, because if we want peace, we should prepare for peace and not for war.
We talk a lot about this peace, but we have destructive attitudes, a feeling of violent spirit, with bad intentions hidden within us, in our speech, in our criticisms, humiliations, even in our looks. We do not have to act as if we were rivals, with a warlike spirit, stepping on others, infantilizing them, with the word “I”, instead of empowering them,
We have to:
Enter into a new anthropology, reversing the trend and entering into the true dynamics of peace, of transformation and of true encounter with the other. How to want, to seek, to give peace if we do not have it or if we take it away from others?
We must:
To humbly work peace from ourselves and nonviolence, saying “no” to a dialogue of lies, to leave the state of internal instability and to enter individually on a path that brings this peace. To get to build first the world we live in to reach a sustainable peace. We will then be able to help people to experience the Good News, creating ourselves spaces from our witness of building and energizing peace. “There is no creative peace if there is no sustainable peace”.
Sister Marie Claire Silatchom
