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Justice and Peace
By Default admin account on 18-Jun-10 18:43
The Kissing Cats captivated me when I first saw them on Pauline’s glass porch. After she made me a gift of them, I put them in my sitting room window, where neighbours, especially the children, often admire the handsome pair, with their curling, silver tails. I have named them Justice and Peace, interchangeably since they are fused together after all.
Thinking about the relationship between peace and justice, I looked up St Augustine. He has not been a great favourite of mine, since I began to think of him as a bit of a chauvenist before his time. But I have to admit that his analysis of Psalm 85:10 is as relevant now, as it was sixteen centuries ago:
"Mercy and truth have met: justice and peace have kissed each other." Do justice, and you shall have peace; that justice and peace may kiss each other. For if you do not love justice, you shall not have peace; for those two, justice and peace, love one another, and kiss one another so that the one who has done justice may find peace embracing justice. They are two friends: you perhaps desire the one, and not the other: for there is no one who does not desire peace: but all will not work for justice.
Ask everyone, do you desire peace? With one voice the whole human race answers: I wish, I desire, I want, I love peace. Love also justice: for these two, justice and peace are friends; they kiss one another: if you do not love the friend of peace, peace itself will not love you, nor come to you.
For how extraordinary is it to desire peace? Every bad person longs for peace. For peace is a good thing. But do justice, for justice and peace kiss one another, they do not quarrel among themselves."
(From the Augustinians of the Midwest website)
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Founded in England in 1877, by Venerable Mary Potter, the first Irish community of the Little Company of Mary was formed in 1888 with the opening of St. John's Hospital in Limerick.
From the first beginnings of the Little Company of Mary, Irish women committed themselves to the vision of the founder, and have sought to create a world in which every human person - and particularly those who are dying - receive the care and love they need to become whole in body, mind and spirit...
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"God's love for humankind urges us to respect the human dignity of all those with whom we share our life, or to whom we are sent, to minister in His name. We are all called to make credible by our lives and our works that God is good.
This means we will co-operate with those striving to create a world in which Love, justice and peace prevail: and we reject whatever would be a compromise with any form of social injustice..."
-Constitutions No. 56-
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