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Home > Sacraments > Eucharist > Communion reflections > 15 07 2007 - A Person of Peace |
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A Person of Peace To bring peace among people is one of life’s great gifts. People who are peacemakers are the sons and daughters of God, for they share in one of the biggest desires of God: peace in the world peace in the community, the neighbourhood, peace in the parish and in the country, peace in the heart of everyone. To bring peace we need to be at peace ourselves; And the person of peace is a person who knows his or her place, and knows God’s place in the world. To be a person of peace is to know that others have rights and that others have problems that make them act the way they do, and the person of peace brings understanding and compassion to the problems of others. To be a person of peace is to know that much in life is outside our control. We cannot turn back the sea nor change the time of sunset and neither can we control the lives of others. To be a person peace is to be engaged each day in love and care with the God of peace. May we be instruments of God’s peace, for through each of us comes God’s gift of peace for all. |
