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<div style="width: 750px; height: 300px; overflow: scroll;" 1="" br=""><strong>Side 1</strong> <br /><br />00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,000<br />It is my honor and privilege to present to you our first speaker in the program, The<br /> <br />2<br />00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:19,360<br />People of God and the Mystery of Christ Hungering in the World, the very Reverend Pedro Arrupe,<br /> <br />3<br />00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:26,520<br />President of the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious and also the 28th Superior General<br /> <br />4<br />00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:33,520<br />of the Society of Jesus, Father Arrupe.<br /> <br />5<br />00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,560<br />Your Eminence,<br /> <br />6<br />00:00:54,560 --> 00:01:00,560<br />the Papal Legate, Your Eminence Cardinal Kroll,<br /> <br />7<br />00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:07,560<br />Eminences, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen.<br /> <br />8<br />00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:14,560<br />Lord, it is good for us to be here.<br /> <br />9<br />00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,760<br />It is good to be with you and share with you<br /> <br />10<br />00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,120<br />this wonderful celebration.<br /> <br />11<br />00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:31,560<br />But let us think first on the great absentees<br /> <br />12<br />00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:38,720<br />of this Congress, the people starving to death.<br /> <br />13<br />00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:44,640<br />Suppose the hungry of the world were also here with us<br /> <br />14<br />00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,760<br />this morning.<br /> <br />15<br />00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:52,320<br />Let us think only of those who are going to die of starvation<br /> <br />16<br />00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:58,560<br />today, the day of our symposium of hunger.<br /> <br />17<br />00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:05,000<br />There will be thousands of them, probably more than all of us<br /> <br />18<br />00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,960<br />who are gathered in this hall.<br /> <br />19<br />00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:16,080<br />Let us try to see them, their bodies weak and emaciated,<br /> <br />20<br />00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,340<br />their intense looks.<br /> <br />21<br />00:02:19,340 --> 00:02:28,080<br />Let us try to hear them begging with their outstretched hands,<br /> <br />22<br />00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:36,400<br />their weak and fainting voices, their terrible silence.<br /> <br />23<br />00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,600<br />Give us bread.<br /> <br />24<br />00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:45,080<br />Give us bread, for we are dying of hunger.<br /> <br />25<br />00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:56,680<br />And if at the end of our discussions of the Eucharist and hunger for bread,<br /> <br />26<br />00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:05,880<br />as we left the hall, we had to pick out our way through this mass of dying bodies,<br /> <br />27<br />00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:13,980<br />how could we claim that our Eucharist is the bread of life?<br /> <br />28<br />00:03:13,980 --> 00:03:22,980<br />How could we pretend to be announcing and sharing with others the same Lord who said,<br /> <br />29<br />00:03:22,980 --> 00:03:30,980<br />I come that they may have life and have it more abundantly?<br /> <br />30<br />00:03:30,980 --> 00:03:39,980<br />It matters little if these starving people are physically now here before our eyes<br /> <br />31<br />00:03:39,980 --> 00:03:43,140<br />or are scattered throughout the world.<br /> <br />32<br />00:03:44,260 --> 00:03:47,820<br />The tragedy and injustice of their death<br /> <br />33<br />00:03:47,820 --> 00:03:51,300<br />are the same wherever it takes place.<br /> <br />34<br />00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:53,760<br />And wherever it does take place,<br /> <br />35<br />00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,500<br />we who are here this morning<br /> <br />36<br />00:03:56,500 --> 00:03:59,240<br />have our share of responsibility.<br /> <br />37<br />00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,780<br />For in the Eucharist, we receive Jesus Christ,<br /> <br />38<br />00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:07,040<br />who will one day say as us,<br /> <br />39<br />00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:13,280<br />As I was hungry, did you give me to eat?<br /> <br />40<br />00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,320<br />I was thirsty, did you give me to drink?<br /> <br />41<br />00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,880<br />I tell you solemnly, insofar as you neglected to do this<br /> <br />42<br />00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,240<br />to one of this list of these my brothers,<br /> <br />43<br />00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:30,720<br />you neglected to do it to me.<br /> <br />44<br />00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,960<br />Yes, we are all responsible, all involved<br /> <br />45<br />00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:43,960<br />In the Eucharist, Jesus becomes the voice of those who are no voice, the voiceless.<br /> <br />46<br />00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:50,760<br />He speaks for the powerless, the oppressed, the poor, the hungry.<br /> <br />47<br />00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,680<br />In fact, he takes their place.<br /> <br />48<br />00:04:54,680 --> 00:05:01,440<br />And if we close our ears to their cries, we are shutting out his voice too.<br /> <br />49<br />00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,600<br />If we refuse to help them, then our faith is indeed dead,<br /> <br />50<br />00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,640<br />as St. James tells us so clearly.<br /> <br />51<br />00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,140<br />If one of these brothers or one of these sisters<br /> <br />52<br />00:05:13,140 --> 00:05:17,320<br />is in need of clothes and has not enough food to live on,<br /> <br />53<br />00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,000<br />and one of you says to them,<br /> <br />54<br />00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,960<br />I wish you well, keep yourself warm and eat plenty,<br /> <br />55<br />00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,400<br />without giving them these bare necessities of life,<br /> <br />56<br />00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,920<br />And what good is that?<br /> <br />57<br />00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,120<br />Fate is like that.<br /> <br />58<br />00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,400<br />If good works do not go with it, it is quite dead.<br /> <br />59<br />00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,080<br />It is over 10 years since the Second Vatican Council made<br /> <br />60<br />00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:55,160<br />the following fateful comment on our modern world.<br /> <br />61<br />00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,680<br />As it works, never has the human race<br /> <br />62<br />00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,440<br />enjoy such an abundance of wealth, resources,<br /> <br />63<br />00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,960<br />and economic power.<br /> <br />64<br />00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:09,800<br />Yet a huge proportion of the world's citizens<br /> <br />65<br />00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:15,280<br />is still tormented by hunger and poverty.<br /> <br />66<br />00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:20,200<br />Two years ago, the United Nations World Food Conference<br /> <br />67<br />00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:27,280<br />explained more precisely what a huge proportion consists in.<br /> <br />68<br />00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:31,480<br />I quote, on the most conservative estimate,<br /> <br />69<br />00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:36,920<br />there are well over 460 million of such people in the world<br /> <br />70<br />00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,920<br />today, and their number is increasing.<br /> <br />71<br />00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:46,880<br />At least 40% of them are children.<br /> <br />72<br />00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,840<br />And what is meant by such people?<br /> <br />73<br />00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:54,160<br />The same United Nations document goes on<br /> <br />74<br />00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:59,160<br />to describe them as people who are permanently hungry<br /> <br />75<br />00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,240<br />and whose capacity for living a normal life<br /> <br />76<br />00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:04,960<br />cannot be realized.<br /> <br />77<br />00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:12,080<br />I am sure there is not a single person here this morning<br /> <br />78<br />00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,720<br />who doesn't know this and many other facts<br /> <br />79<br />00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,240<br />about world hunger as well as or better than I.<br /> <br />80<br />00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,880<br />We have been bombarded, perhaps to saturation point,<br /> <br />81<br />00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:29,880<br />with tapes, slides, film strips, charts, books, speeches and resolutions of hunger.<br /> <br />82<br />00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,880<br />In the United States alone, there are hundreds of organizations, groups and agencies<br /> <br />83<br />00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:40,880<br />directly or indirectly trying to eliminate it.<br /> <br />84<br />00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,880<br />In Rome, where I live,<br /> <br />85<br />00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:49,880<br />the United Nations employs over 3,000 people<br /> <br />86<br />00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,440<br />engaged full time in studying and trying to fight hunger<br /> <br />87<br />00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,040<br />throughout the world.<br /> <br />88<br />00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,240<br />Yet, the situation seems to be getting worse as the world<br /> <br />89<br />00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,800<br />grows richer and richer.<br /> <br />90<br />00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,520<br />At the beginning of his presidency,<br /> <br />91<br />00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,280<br />John Fitzgerald Kennedy set two goals<br /> <br />92<br />00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,960<br />before the American people.<br /> <br />93<br />00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,440<br />The first was to get a man to the moon<br /> <br />94<br />00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,080<br />before the end of the decade.<br /> <br />95<br />00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:28,040<br />The other was to help eliminate hunger within our lifetime.<br /> <br />96<br />00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:33,040<br />It is sad, comment on the values of our civilization,<br /> <br />97<br />00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,000<br />that the first technical and scientific goal was<br /> <br />98<br />00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,480<br />magnificently achieved, whereas the second, more humanitarian<br /> <br />99<br />00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:49,560<br />and social one has reached ever farther from our grasp.<br /> <br />100<br />00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:51,600<br />What is the reason?<br /> <br />101<br />00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,760<br />It is that the problem is too big for us.<br /> <br />102<br />00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,760<br />There is no doubt that hunger and malnutrition are widespread<br /> <br />103<br />00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,080<br />and caused by a whole series of factors ranging<br /> <br />104<br />00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:08,120<br />from unpredictable weather to rapidly increasing populations.<br /> <br />105<br />00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:20,120<br />But, on the other hand, the experts tell us that full resources could in fact be made available to feed ever greater numbers of people.<br /> <br />106<br />00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:26,520<br />It is that we don't know how to set about a solution, where to start.<br /> <br />107<br />00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:33,520<br />Here again, there are many complex socio-economic, political and even cultural factors<br /> <br />108<br />00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:41,520<br />that have to be taken into account if a lasting solution is to be found to the problem of world hunger.<br /> <br />109<br />00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:50,520<br />However, to get a man on the moon, to arm and defend ourselves and our allies,<br /> <br />110<br />00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:58,520<br />we have made such a dazzling display of resources, of technology, of human ingenuity, and of social engineering,<br /> <br />111<br />00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,520<br />that we cannot say with a clear conscience,<br /> <br />112<br />00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:09,520<br />people are hungry simply because we don't know how to do,<br /> <br />113<br />00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,520<br />what to do and how to do it.<br /> <br />114<br />00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:18,520<br />What is basically lacking are not resources,<br /> <br />115<br />00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,520<br />technology or knowledge.<br /> <br />116<br />00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,520<br />What is then?<br /> <br />117<br />00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:32,520<br />It can only be our will to do something, our determination to marshal the resources, technology<br /> <br />118<br />00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:41,640<br />and knowledge we have to satisfy not only what we consider to be our own needs and interests,<br /> <br />119<br />00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:46,760<br />but also what in fact are the most basic needs of others.<br /> <br />120<br />00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:52,480<br />Wherever we come from, rich or poor countries, we don't seem to have sufficient motivation<br /> <br />121<br />00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:57,080<br />to turn us towards the needs of those most in want,<br /> <br />122<br />00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,560<br />and to translate our concern, often sincere,<br /> <br />123<br />00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:04,760<br />but bad and ineffectual, into concrete deeds.<br /> <br />124<br />00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:11,640<br />The problem of world hunger is not primary and economic,<br /> <br />125<br />00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,360<br />a social, or even a political one.<br /> <br />126<br />00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:21,560<br />It is basically a moral, a spiritual problem.<br /> <br />127<br />00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:33,480<br />The world hunger for food will only be satisfied when man learns to live not simply for himself,<br /> <br />128<br />00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:38,480<br />but for others as Christ did.<br /> <br />129<br />00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:49,480<br />The world hunger for food will only be satisfied when man learns to hunger for God,<br /> <br />130<br />00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:54,480<br />for his love and especially for his justice.<br /> <br />131<br />00:11:57,740 --> 00:12:02,180<br />This truth was clearly understood by early Christians.<br /> <br />132<br />00:12:02,180 --> 00:12:07,180<br />The act of the apostles tell us that they went as a body<br /> <br />133<br />00:12:07,740 --> 00:12:11,540<br />to the temple every day and met in their houses<br /> <br />134<br />00:12:11,540 --> 00:12:13,140<br />for the breaking of bread.<br /> <br />135<br />00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,340<br />And the passage goes on at once to say,<br /> <br />136<br />00:12:17,340 --> 00:12:23,340<br />They shared their food gladly and generously.<br /> <br />137<br />00:12:23,340 --> 00:12:36,340<br />They sold their goods and possessions and shared out the proceeds among themselves according to what each needed.<br /> <br />138<br />00:12:36,340 --> 00:12:40,340<br />The message is clear and simple.<br /> <br />139<br />00:12:40,340 --> 00:12:50,340<br />The direct consequence of, as well as the condition for, their praying together and sharing the bread of the Lord together in the Eucharist<br /> <br />140<br />00:12:50,340 --> 00:12:59,340<br />was to share what they had in common so that no one was in one.<br /> <br />141<br />00:12:59,340 --> 00:13:08,340<br />The same message is forcefully expressed by St. John in one word, koinonia.<br /> <br />142<br />00:13:08,340 --> 00:13:17,900<br />It can be translated as communion or fellowship, but use the same word to describe three different<br /> <br />143<br />00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,100<br />levels of fellowship.<br /> <br />144<br />00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:25,660<br />First, our fellowship with the Father, with God.<br /> <br />145<br />00:13:25,660 --> 00:13:30,660<br />Secondly, our fellowship with Christ through the Eucharist.<br /> <br />146<br />00:13:30,660 --> 00:13:39,660<br />Thirdly, our fellowship with each other that leads us to share what we have with others.<br /> <br />147<br />00:13:40,660 --> 00:13:43,660<br />To hear side two, turn the cassette over now.</div>
<div style="width: 750px; height: 300px; overflow: scroll;" 1="" br=""><strong>Side 2</strong><br /><br />00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,960<br />The important point is that these three fellowships are all expressed by the same word koinonia<br /> <br />2<br />00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,880<br />are really only one.<br /> <br />3<br />00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:24,260<br />They are different aspects of the same communion or sharing with and cannot be separate from<br /> <br />4<br />00:00:24,260 --> 00:00:25,260<br />each other.<br /> <br />5<br />00:00:25,260 --> 00:00:34,060<br />Thus, we cannot have fellowship with God unless we have fellowship with each other.<br /> <br />6<br />00:00:34,060 --> 00:00:41,500<br />And the Eucharist is the visible bond which both signifies this fellowship and helps to<br /> <br />7<br />00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:43,940<br />bring it about.<br /> <br />8<br />00:00:43,940 --> 00:00:52,540<br />It effectively recalls and proclaims our communion with God and with our fellow man.<br /> <br />9<br />00:00:52,540 --> 00:01:01,380<br />This rediscovery of what might be called the social dimension of the Eucharist is of tremendous<br /> <br />10<br />00:01:01,380 --> 00:01:04,580<br />significance today.<br /> <br />11<br />00:01:04,580 --> 00:01:12,780<br />We once again see Holy Communion as the sacrament of our brotherhood and unity.<br /> <br />12<br />00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:18,820<br />We share in a meal together, eating the same bread for the same table.<br /> <br />13<br />00:01:18,820 --> 00:01:27,340<br />In St. Paul tells us clearly the fact that there is only one love means that though there<br /> <br />14<br />00:01:27,340 --> 00:01:38,700<br />are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one love.<br /> <br />15<br />00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:44,740<br />In the Eucharist, in other words, we receive not only Christ, the head of the body, but<br /> <br />16<br />00:01:44,740 --> 00:01:46,900<br />his members as well.<br /> <br />17<br />00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:53,900<br />This fact has immediate practical consequences and St. Paul, once again, reminds us,<br /> <br />18<br />00:01:53,900 --> 00:02:01,900<br />St. Paul, God has arranged the body so that each part may be equally concerned for all the others.<br /> <br />19<br />00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:09,900<br />If one part is hurt, all parts are hurt with it.<br /> <br />20<br />00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:16,900<br />Wherever there is suffering in the body, wherever members of it are in want or oppressed,<br /> <br />21<br />00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:24,900<br />we, because we have received the same body and are part of it, must be directly involved.<br /> <br />22<br />00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:29,900<br />We cannot opt out or to say to a brother,<br /> <br />23<br />00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:36,900<br />I do not need you. I will not help you.<br /> <br />24<br />00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:47,900<br />And our concern must, by its very nature, be worldwide.<br /> <br />25<br />00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:55,900<br />Just as the body we share belongs to all peoples and knows no barriers of race, wealth, class or culture,<br /> <br />26<br />00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:59,620<br />of culture, so our commitment to its members<br /> <br />27<br />00:02:59,620 --> 00:03:02,300<br />must be equally universal.<br /> <br />28<br />00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:06,300<br />The table of the Lord, which we sit around,<br /> <br />29<br />00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:10,060<br />is today the table of the world.<br /> <br />30<br />00:03:10,060 --> 00:03:14,020<br />Our neighbor is now not only the man<br /> <br />31<br />00:03:14,020 --> 00:03:21,460<br />set upon by the thieves whom we pass on the roadside,<br /> <br />32<br />00:03:21,460 --> 00:03:27,180<br />but also the scores of men, women, and children<br /> <br />33<br />00:03:27,180 --> 00:03:32,740<br />who pass across our television screens with swollen bellies<br /> <br />34<br />00:03:32,740 --> 00:03:37,900<br />and sunken eyes and bodies racked by diseases or torture.<br /> <br />35<br />00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:41,180<br />These are our brothers and sisters,<br /> <br />36<br />00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:46,660<br />and we are bound to them by the Eucharist.<br /> <br />37<br />00:03:46,660 --> 00:03:49,960<br />What should we do?<br /> <br />38<br />00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,520<br />You, again, will know better than I<br /> <br />39<br />00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,440<br />that there are many things we can do,<br /> <br />40<br />00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,040<br />many degrees of commitment and involvement.<br /> <br />41<br />00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,840<br />But let something concrete come out from the Congress,<br /> <br />42<br />00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,300<br />from this Congress as a whole,<br /> <br />43<br />00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:07,480<br />something that can be acted on at once<br /> <br />44<br />00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,680<br />by ordinary people in universal love and solidarity<br /> <br />45<br />00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,280<br />with Christ's suffering hunger in the world today,<br /> <br />46<br />00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:19,280<br />something that will be a pledge of our effective will<br /> <br />47<br />00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,360<br />to satisfy that hunger.<br /> <br />48<br />00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:34,360<br />Some years ago, the Eucharist fast from midnight, which as my older listeners will remember,<br /> <br />49<br />00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:42,360<br />used to be a condition for receiving Holy Communion, was abolished. In 1966,<br /> <br />50<br />00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:52,520<br />Looking at the whole question of fasting, Pope Paul XVI declared that fasting abstinence<br /> <br />51<br />00:04:52,520 --> 00:05:00,820<br />should be both a witness to asceticism and a means for helping the poor.<br /> <br />52<br />00:05:00,820 --> 00:05:09,080<br />What I wish to propose is the reintroduction of a voluntary basis of a different type of<br /> <br />53<br />00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:18,920<br />Eucharistic fast, not now so much for ascetical reasons, but as a token of our commitment<br /> <br />54<br />00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:28,960<br />to world justice and a concrete expression of our solidarity with the hungry and oppressed.<br /> <br />55<br />00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:34,760<br />In preparation for this Eucharistic Congress, many families have taken part in the Operation<br /> <br />56<br />00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:43,280<br />rice bowl, fasting one day or one meal per week and donating the money saved to provide<br /> <br />57<br />00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:50,160<br />food for the hungry or the means with which to produce it.<br /> <br />58<br />00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:57,800<br />Similar practices have been adopted in other countries and by members of other religions.<br /> <br />59<br />00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:04,120<br />ourselves have been invited to make today a day of fast and concern for the<br /> <br />60<br />00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:11,760<br />world's starvation and to share tonight in a poor man's supper. I propose that<br /> <br />61<br />00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:20,600<br />henceforth some practice such as this becomes an integral part of our reception<br /> <br />62<br />00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:28,600<br />of the Eucharist, so that whenever we share the bread of life around the table of the Lord,<br /> <br />63<br />00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:38,440<br />we will also share the bread for life with the hungry of the world. In this challenge,<br /> <br />64<br />00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:45,400<br />we are taken up merely by Roman Catholics, and in the United States alone, and if the amount<br /> <br />65<br />00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:53,600<br />save only average out at $1 per person per week,<br /> <br />66<br />00:06:53,600 --> 00:07:00,680<br />this would reach the huge sum, over $2.5 billion a year.<br /> <br />67<br />00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,760<br />This figure is more than twice the amount<br /> <br />68<br />00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,120<br />the new International Fund for Agricultural Development<br /> <br />69<br />00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:15,800<br />created as a top priority at the 1974 World Food Conference<br /> <br />70<br />00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,320<br />has been able to rise so far.<br /> <br />71<br />00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,280<br />Of course, the problem of world hunger<br /> <br />72<br />00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,400<br />cannot be solved by money.<br /> <br />73<br />00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,400<br />It's a problem alone.<br /> <br />74<br />00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,680<br />It would be harmful and irresponsible<br /> <br />75<br />00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,760<br />to oversimplify a problem which, as we have already seen,<br /> <br />76<br />00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,960<br />is complex and difficult. The value of what I am proposing<br /> <br />77<br />00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:43,440<br />is not so much in the money that could thus be saved and made<br /> <br />78<br />00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:48,240<br />available for the world's poor, but rather<br /> <br />79<br />00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:53,400<br />in the concrete example that this would offer of our love<br /> <br />80<br />00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,640<br />and solidarity and our willingness<br /> <br />81<br />00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,200<br />to make the necessary sacrifices to satisfy<br /> <br />82<br />00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,840<br />the hunger of the world.<br /> <br />83<br />00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,360<br />I wish to make this appeal for a concrete expression<br /> <br />84<br />00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,320<br />of our effective solidarity and willingness<br /> <br />85<br />00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,040<br />to help out not just Catholics or Americans,<br /> <br />86<br />00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,880<br />but to all men of goodwill throughout the world.<br /> <br />87<br />00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,640<br />For though motivation may differ,<br /> <br />88<br />00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,240<br />world hunger is a problem that concern<br /> <br />89<br />00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,560<br />not only Catholics and Christians,<br /> <br />90<br />00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,400<br />not only those who believe in God,<br /> <br />91<br />00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:36,880<br />by the believers in the value of human love and solidarity.<br /> <br />92<br />00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,400<br />Such a concrete example of true solidarity<br /> <br />93<br />00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,520<br />cutting across religions and races and nations<br /> <br />94<br />00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,400<br />could inspire and render more effective<br /> <br />95<br />00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,000<br />other international efforts and also lead us<br /> <br />96<br />00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,160<br />to other and more deep commitments.<br /> <br />97<br />00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,960<br />If this appeal is taken up and acted upon,<br /> <br />98<br />00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,320<br />then the ambition to eliminate hunger within our lifetime<br /> <br />99<br />00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,880<br />need not to be such a distant dream after all.<br /> <br />100<br />00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:12,360<br />Everywhere we look, we are confronted<br /> <br />101<br />00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,100<br />by what the synod of bishops describe<br /> <br />102<br />00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:19,340<br />as a network of domination, oppression, and abuse<br /> <br />103<br />00:09:19,340 --> 00:09:22,520<br />with stifled freedom and which keep<br /> <br />104<br />00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,740<br />the greater part of humanity from sharing<br /> <br />105<br />00:09:25,740 --> 00:09:31,260<br />in the building up and enjoyment of a more just and fraternal<br /> <br />106<br />00:09:31,260 --> 00:09:33,140<br />world.<br /> <br />107<br />00:09:33,140 --> 00:09:39,100<br />Yet we have an answer which gives us hope and joy.<br /> <br />108<br />00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:43,380<br />It is the Eucharist, the symbol of Christ's love for men.<br /> <br />109<br />00:09:43,380 --> 00:09:47,140<br />The task of this Congress is to share that love<br /> <br />110<br />00:09:47,140 --> 00:09:50,260<br />and translate into effective action.<br /> <br />111<br />00:09:50,260 --> 00:09:55,860<br />without some action, such as that I have proposed,<br /> <br />112<br />00:09:55,860 --> 00:10:01,900<br />will our Eucharist Congress have any real message<br /> <br />113<br />00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:09,340<br />for the world, a message that is which modern men will listen<br /> <br />114<br />00:10:09,340 --> 00:10:14,660<br />to and believe in, without some tangible evidence<br /> <br />115<br />00:10:14,660 --> 00:10:17,100<br />of our concern for others?<br /> <br />116<br />00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,860<br />what witness can we give?<br /> <br />117<br />00:10:20,860 --> 00:10:25,340<br />And this great country, which has hosted our Congress<br /> <br />118<br />00:10:25,340 --> 00:10:30,060<br />and is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its independence,<br /> <br />119<br />00:10:30,060 --> 00:10:33,940<br />has its courage, determination, the generosity<br /> <br />120<br />00:10:33,940 --> 00:10:38,620<br />to give to the world the lead it is looking for.<br /> <br />121<br />00:10:38,620 --> 00:10:46,340<br />There was a time when the new land of America<br /> <br />122<br />00:10:46,340 --> 00:10:50,840<br />was able to say to other countries across the sea,<br /> <br />123<br />00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:57,000<br />give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning<br /> <br />124<br />00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:03,200<br />to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br /> <br />125<br />00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:08,800<br />Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed to me.<br /> <br />126<br />00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:14,480<br />I leave my land besides the golden door.<br /> <br />127<br />00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:22,280<br />Today, the majority of the world's tired, poor, homeless, or hungry may never set eyes<br /> <br />128<br />00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:30,680<br />on the Statues of Liberty, but they need and have a right to what it stands for, a right<br /> <br />129<br />00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:36,320<br />to freedom, to justice, to it.<br /> <br />130<br />00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:43,840<br />They need and have a right to just general international policies which call for enlightened<br /> <br />131<br />00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:48,240<br />leadership by these and other wealthy countries.<br /> <br />132<br />00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,280<br />They need and have a right to a new international order<br /> <br />133<br />00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,040<br />of things.<br /> <br />134<br />00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:57,160<br />And if it's called for sacrifice on our part,<br /> <br />135<br />00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:03,560<br />will we hold back if it's not this precisely<br /> <br />136<br />00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:06,760<br />what fasting means?<br /> <br />137<br />00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,640<br />This is what the full celebration of the Eucharist<br /> <br />138<br />00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,760<br />means in the world today.<br /> <br />139<br />00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,040<br />Let us not forget that it is only when in faith and love<br /> <br />140<br />00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,760<br />we give away the little that we have,<br /> <br />141<br />00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:23,760<br />a few loaves of fishes, that God blesses our poor efforts<br /> <br />142<br />00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,400<br />and his omnipotence multiplies them<br /> <br />143<br />00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,520<br />to meet the hunger of the world.<br /> <br />144<br />00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,520<br />Let us not forget that it was only after the widow<br /> <br />145<br />00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:38,840<br />had given Hediah some food, even from the little<br /> <br />146<br />00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:46,680<br />possessed that God came to her rescue. And Elia was a complete stranger to her<br /> <br />147<br />00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:54,840<br />from another country and worshipping a different God. In the same way, it was<br /> <br />148<br />00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:02,000<br />only in sharing their bread with a stranger that the two disciples on the<br /> <br />149<br />00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,600<br />the road to a most recognized and found the Lord.<br /> <br />150<br />00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:08,600<br />Thank you.</div>
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