"The Christian message of peace is this: if God so loved us that he sent his Son to be one of us, then we do have a great value in his eyes. We, too, then, must value others in the same way. Secondly, we must learn how to love in the same way, caring not for the self, but for the other.
"Thus, the Christian message is one of hope against all odds. It is easy to speak of hope when all goes well; but Christian hope is based on the belief that God cares even when all seems lost and every human force seems inadequate.
"We can give others glimpses of such hope by our own example of loving service. Each time we imitate Jesus by a disinterested, loving care for others, we help them overcome violence within them." - Archbishop Rembert Weakland, O.S.B.
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