SOURCE: Way of Holy Joy by Sofia Cavalletti. Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, 2012.
KEYWORDS: baptism, peace, grace, gift, transformation, reconciliation, shalom, ubuntu,
"To avoid conflicts is the work of politics," Maria Montessori wrote, "to build peace is the work of education." (pg 2)
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Thus the first place in which "wholeness" needs to exist, so that there will be peace, is in the heart of the human person. (pg 2)
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Although the human heart may burn with love for the oppressed, if it is still seething with hate for the oppressors, that person would not be "integral, whole" and would not yet able to build the foundation for peace.
Furthermore, a fellowship that embraced all humankind, but only humankind, would not yet represent shalom, peace, because it would exclude the most important part of reality: God. The human heart that does not open itself to the religious reality would remain equally split, mutilated, would not yet be shallem. (pg 2-4)
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The life of the human person consists in transforming the gifts that are offered into gifts that are accepted and desired and lived with ever more awareness. (pg 6)
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