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Wednesday 6 November 2013

Note and Pray for Malta, Please

This letter is being passed around parishes here in Malta as the 
government wants to press through ssm.
Some of the words have not been translated in text. I picked up this text yesterday 
morning at Mass
Here is a copy of that letter from 

The Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, today the Pope Franġisku, 
when he was still Archbishop of Buenos Aires, publicly condemned 
the draft law to be debated in the Argentine Senate legislation on 
marriage and gay adoptions. Wrote letters and appeals, called walk 
against gay marriage on Sunday 11 July 2010, and ordered to be 
read in all churches during the Mass, this powerful message: -
To the people of God and to all men and women of good will

1. God wants to save all people and come to the full knowledge 
of the truth (cf. 1 Tim 2:4). Therefore man is stopped by a dialogue 
of salvation, culminating to his meeting with Jesus Christ, the Lord 
and partner in our drive. The Church is called to extend this dialogue 
to muster all humanity.But dialogue if we are to bear fruit, it must be clear, 
Serene, simple and reliable. This implies all due respect dwellers, 
feels and thinks differently. All we are called to love God. But to be 
clear dialogue is needed expertise to the discernment leading to the 
statement of truth, which the pastors can not remain silent. This in no way 
implies contempt or discrimination.

2. The man was created in the image of God . This image seems not 
only each individual person but also in complementarity and reciprocity 
of husband and wife, in common dignity, and indissoluble unity between 
them, which has always been called marriage . Marriage is the form of 
life in which an unique communion of persons, which gives full human 
feeling to the exercise of the sexual function. The very nature of marriage 
belong to the qualities already mentioned the difference, complementarity 
and reciprocity between the sexes, and all the riches beauty of their fertility. 
Marriage is a gift of creation. There is no other reality tixbhu or equal. 
Any merger is not between people, but own and inalienable 
characteristics that make marriage the foundation of family and society. 
So they recognized the great cultures of the world. 
So recognizable international treaties recognized by our national 
Constitution (art. 75). So always understood our people.

3. public authority has a duty to protect marriage between a man and 
woman through legislative recognition to ensure and promote its 
irreplaceable function and its contribution to the common good of society. 
If legally recognize the union between people of the same sex, or jiggarantilha 
legal knowledge on the same level as marriage and family, the State 
is acting unlawfully being contradicts its institutional obligations, 
because it is overturning the principles of natural law and of public order 
Argentine society.

4. Bringing people of the same sex is missing from the biological and 
anthropological elements of marriage and having a family. Is missing from 
the conjugal dimension and openness to life. On the contrary, marriage 
and the family built upon, constitutes the core of the new generations of 
humans.Since their conception of the children have an inalienable right 
to grow in the womb of the mother, born in the wild and nurture the marriage. 
In family life and relationship with the father and natural mother, 
the children discover their identity and recognize what is their personal autonomy.

5. Recognition of objective difference does not mean being discriminate. 
Nature does not discriminate when creating men and women. 
All our civil code does not discriminate when requiring the requirement 
to be man or woman can enter marriage, but simply to recognize natural reality. 
The legal situations of mutual interest between persons of the same 
sex can be sufficiently protected by common law. Therefore, it is unfair 
discrimination against marriage and family if one gives the private 
fact of unity between people of the same sex status of public law.

6. awareness We urge our legislators to, they faced such a serious issue, 
keep in mind these fundamental truths, for the good of the country and its 
future generations.

7. Paskwali Climate contained therein , and in the beginning of six years 
of biċentinarju Country's (2010-2016), neżortaw to our faithful to seek 
wholeheartedly to the Lord our God illuminate wasteful leaders and 
especially to our legislators. Furthermore, the faithful pray not afraid to proclaim 
the protection and promotion of the great values ​​that have 
shaped our nation and to the hope of forming the Country.


Translation from Spanish to notching n of Gianfranco Amato ,
brought to Malta by Francesco Pio Attard

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Translation from the Official Site of the Diocese of Malta Laity website as above.


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