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I Have Decided To Proclaim For The Whole Church... A Day Of Fasting And Prayer For Peace In Syria, The Middle East, And Throughout The World, And I Also Invite Each Person, Including Our Fellow Christians, Followers Of Other Religions And All Men Of Good Will, To Participate, In Whatever Way They Can, In This Initiative.

And There Is This Fact Of The Twelve Baskets: Why Twelve? What Does It Mean? Twelve Is The Number Of The Tribes Of Israel, Symbolically It Represents All The People. And This Tells Us That When Food Is Shared Equally, With Solidarity, Nobody Is Devoid Of The Necessary, Each Community Can Meet The Needs Of The Poorest. Human Ecology And Environmental Ecology Go Hand In Hand.

These Days There Is A Lot Of Poverty In The World, And That's A Scandal When We Have So Many Riches And Resources To Give To Everyone. We All Have To Think About How We Can Become A Little Poorer.

Ask Yourselves This Question: How Often Is Jesus Inside And Knocking At The Door To Be Let Out, To Come Out? And We Do Not Let Him Out Because Of Our Own Need For Security, Because So Often We Are Locked Into Ephemeral Structures That Serve Solely To Make Us Slaves And Not Free Children Of God.

Today Is The World Day Of Prayer For The Care Of Creation. Let Us Work And Pray.