The feelings of Cardinal JB. Pham Minh Man in the interreligious meetings
The feelings of Cardinal JB. Pham Minh Man in the interreligious meetings in the Pastoral Center on Oct 27th 2011.
The first feeling when coming in this meeting is my pleasure on occasion of getting together for the building of the fraternity, affections to each and other to everyone in this city. It is nice to have a great number of participants here from various parishes, charity organizations and orders in this city. Your presence in this meeting have made our hearts, our loves grow and in bloom. The first flower is the delight one, Thus, I would like to welcome and wish all of you good health.
Our Creator when giving us the gift of life also bedding in our hearts his love. Because he made human beings in his image and likeness, it is love. Since then the creator has been caring for the seed of love in each of hearts grow and be fruitful, of course, with men’s collaborations. Thus, this meeting is a way of cooperation to the creator to fulfill his intention.
The recent speaker has mentioned several issues, among them is talking care of health for this city inhabitants. It is a way of collaboration with the creator to attend to human life. It is by this attention, the love of the attendants as well as of care and service receives are flourish and fruitful with various flowers. In family, it has the name of the marriage flowers the family flower, in island, it’s called the Tolerance flower. In Catholic, it’s known as the charity flower. In spite of different colors, different names, all these flowers are originated from the heart, have blossomed the love which the creator has sown in each of us as well as in those getting our care the meeting of inter-religeous prayer for peace like the one in Assisi Italy led by the pope have been held dozens of times. We take this opportunity to communicate and with one accord. This prayer, every religion has it’s own activity originated from its faith and belief. The activities of prayer are in various forms, but they are the water source for the blossom of the love seed in each heart, thus, we share the creator to care for the love seed of us and of the care receiver.
This morning, I talked and gave thanks to many orders which have sent 200 times of young patients injected with the age disease, HIV/AIDS to the health centers.
I find that the love in both the volunteers and the care receivers have flourished. Previously, nobody dare to touch the unfortunate young men, their love has faded away due to the AIDS but now they recover their sentiment thanking to the attention from the volunteer, they overcome their complexes and hate of life in society amt even in their family, they are going to the new horizon in their sight, they find the good cause for life in peace and in calmness.
These are the valuable experiences, everybody learns that he has the seed of love sown by the creator and he takes front in caring the love for blossom both in himself and in the receives of his attention.
It encourages us to do good deeds, we are unable to take care everybody but there are still many other things to do, it’s prayer: As today we pray for peace, for the love in every heart to get favorable condition to grow in the world condition: the globalization, people move nearer to each other, they cooperate for economic and social development… At the same time, there are a lot of chaos, disputes causing insecurity, disorder in family, in our country as well as throughout the world. Therefore prayer is indispensable, not only prayer today but also regularly in each religion. Prayer is supplying water for growth of love seed of own fellow citizen and of human beings in general.
That is why I feel delighted in this meeting to share our mind and our heart, prayer for every people in the world. Owing to this prayer the peace of light will spark in the new horizon, in own country and in the world today.
Many thanks and best wishes!
Cardinal JB. Pham Minh Man