Thursday, April 2, 2009

Free Church Anniversary Program

Earthquake Emergency Open Letter to Friends Letter from Romania Romania


"Romanians in Italy ..." - here is the argument that has raged on the front pages of Italian newspapers and Romanians, theme burning, with official statements, press releases, fury - the Romanians and the Italians, showing a new episode is intended to sow hatred and distrust between us, as others have already happened and that maybe will happen again in the future. Sure there are causes and responsibility, justice will play the key role, in a democratic society of the twenty-first century justice will certainly ways to do his duty. Its jurisdiction is to punish any act against the life of a human being, the supreme gift that God has given us. But what he is after all this ink flow that we saw on paper? we must try to move forward together and find ourselves in the facts and Our common shares, in the things that unfortunately can not be read either in first or even in the footnote of the newspapers. These are the good things, good things that show wisdom and understanding beyond the statements or press releases, because they reveal a maturity and cultural identity linking the two peoples and bring us back to the longstanding historical times. In this "dark months", "black period", as decreed by the press, we have seen that life goes on, that good things are there and this is a proof of confidence and courage. Yet Romanians and Italians are people like adroitly, indeed, in some ways I would say all too similar. Romania, represents a paradox to historians. This is the only country surrounded by countries of Latin or Slavic or Finno linguistically / Finns, the only Latin country with an Orthodox majority and the only country whose language although the Latin language to the reform of 1860 was using Cyrillic characters. A paradox, as they say but can not deny his interest, and especially interesting for the relationships that this country and its people have had in Italy. Without returning to the Roman times I would mention Blessed John of Wallachia (1556-1625) who consider Italy as a country of saints and kept repeating that in the peninsula were "good Christians and where the monks were all saints and there was The Pope, the Vicar of Christ. " and that in Italy to Naples, to be precise, this humble monk came from a far country defending the servants abused by their masters, was interested to place the unemployed in an honest job, takes care to provide a dowry for girls orphaned or unsafe because they got married decently, she went to visit inmates in prisons, is working to settle feuds and pacify those upset by hatred ... It was a living image and work of the Lord's mercy. "Or how can we forget, the apostle of freedom, Giuseppe Mazzini, who in 1851 recalled that" The people of Romania, the vanguard of grecolatina race, is to represent the bridge in Eastern Europe with nationalism slave and the principle of individual freedom and collective progress that defines us, Europeans, like the apostles of mankind. "powerful concept, but are used to demonstrate the indivisible unity that history assigns to the Italian and Rumanian peoples, two nations that for their joint appearance are called together to build the history of Europe.

Dr. Barter
Vice President of the Association "dacha"

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