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Author: Raymond Murray
Tags: General, History, Europe, Political Science, Great Britain, Ireland, Political Freedom & Security, Human Rights, IRA, Civil Rights, Politics and government, Northern Ireland, Political Prisoners, british intelligence, collusion, State Violence, paramilitaries, British Security forces, loyalist, Political persecution, 1969-1994
and ethical forces allied to professional skills they could reassure people that their problems will not be forgotten. The Peace Corps could win the trust of all in Northern Ireland, Catholic and Protestant, in working with the governments in Dublin, London, and Belfast, with Amnesty international and the United Nations, to restore a sense of trust and confidence among all the people of the north.
The Eucharist
This evening we personally receive the peace of Christ in the celebration of the Eucharist. We thank God for peace and beseech him time and time again to grant us peace. We ask for the grace to be witnesses to peace before the world, to serve the Church in peace, to serve our community in peace, to serve our country in peace.
Sermon preached in St Francis Church, Cork, Sunday 8 March 1992, organised by PEACE (Prayer Enterprise and Christian Effort). Expanded for International Conference on Religion and Conflict, Armagh, 20â21 May 1994.
I am indebted to the Pastoral Letter of the German Bishops, Gerectigkeit schafft Frieden, 18 April 1983, and the Pastoral Letter of the USA bishops, The Challenge of Peace, Godâs Promise and Our Response, 3 May 1983, for many of the ideas in this paper.
The Rich and the Poor
ADHMED KASSIM
Jesus did not redeem the world out of nothing;
he redeemed it out of a little boyâs satchel,
That day in the desert
when he fed the five thousand with five barley loaves and two fish,
all that the youngster had.
The boy was reluctant to part with them.
His mother had prepared his lunch
at daybreak,
kissed his forehead
and bade him farewell.
Jesus did not throw a feast out of nothing,
he multiplied the boyâs generosity.
The child emptied his bundle,
gave up his meal to be fed on words.
Jesus learned his first lesson.
On the fourth day of February
nineteen hundred and ninety-one,
Black Crows gathered in the heavens without fear,
the Allies from the Western World.
They quickly unburdened their gigantic sacks,
and destroyed a bridge in southern Iraq.
They killed the people fleeing from al-Nasiriyeh.
It was Jesus who recognised Adhmed Kassim,
the boy with the loaves,
lying on a stretcher,
still wearing the red cardigan his mother had knit for him
so skilfully without a seam,
his head crowned with shrapnel thorns,
holes in his feet, a wound in his side.
He was only ten years of age.
Jesus learned his second lesson.
That is a translation of a poem in Irish I published in An tUltach. If you think it isnât good I can say it suffered in translation!
Propaganda called the Gulf War a clean war, a surgical operation, but here was killing comparable to Hiroshima and Dresden, a re-enactment of âBomberâ Harrisâ aerial murder raid on Lubeck on 28 March 1942. Abrams tanks of the 1st Mechanised Infantry Division equipped with bulldozer blades drove parallel to Iraqi trenches and buried soldiers alive. The Basra road carnage of fleeing helpless soldiers reminded one of the worst features of the First World War. The systematic destruction of the civil infrastructure of Iraq has led to the ill-health of millions of people and a high infant mortality. The allies sought to destroy en masse the Iraqi forces in Kuwait and south-eastern Iraq. These were mainly peasant conscripts and reservists. Their surrender would have been a matter of course but the allies chose to treat them as âtarget richâ. Thousands of fuel-air explosives and slurry bombs and cluster bombs which spill out hundreds of grenades, and missiles from the Multiple Rocket Launch System (MRLS) poured down on the unfortunates. There is little sympathy in western Europe and in the United States of America for the victims. Governments of western Europe and the USA deliberately deny their peoples access to the culture of the Arabs. Pope John Paul stood almost isolated in his condemnation of the Gulf War. The disciples of the Lord fled as at Gethsemane.
I welcome my inheritance of
The Eucharist
This evening we personally receive the peace of Christ in the celebration of the Eucharist. We thank God for peace and beseech him time and time again to grant us peace. We ask for the grace to be witnesses to peace before the world, to serve the Church in peace, to serve our community in peace, to serve our country in peace.
Sermon preached in St Francis Church, Cork, Sunday 8 March 1992, organised by PEACE (Prayer Enterprise and Christian Effort). Expanded for International Conference on Religion and Conflict, Armagh, 20â21 May 1994.
I am indebted to the Pastoral Letter of the German Bishops, Gerectigkeit schafft Frieden, 18 April 1983, and the Pastoral Letter of the USA bishops, The Challenge of Peace, Godâs Promise and Our Response, 3 May 1983, for many of the ideas in this paper.
The Rich and the Poor
ADHMED KASSIM
Jesus did not redeem the world out of nothing;
he redeemed it out of a little boyâs satchel,
That day in the desert
when he fed the five thousand with five barley loaves and two fish,
all that the youngster had.
The boy was reluctant to part with them.
His mother had prepared his lunch
at daybreak,
kissed his forehead
and bade him farewell.
Jesus did not throw a feast out of nothing,
he multiplied the boyâs generosity.
The child emptied his bundle,
gave up his meal to be fed on words.
Jesus learned his first lesson.
On the fourth day of February
nineteen hundred and ninety-one,
Black Crows gathered in the heavens without fear,
the Allies from the Western World.
They quickly unburdened their gigantic sacks,
and destroyed a bridge in southern Iraq.
They killed the people fleeing from al-Nasiriyeh.
It was Jesus who recognised Adhmed Kassim,
the boy with the loaves,
lying on a stretcher,
still wearing the red cardigan his mother had knit for him
so skilfully without a seam,
his head crowned with shrapnel thorns,
holes in his feet, a wound in his side.
He was only ten years of age.
Jesus learned his second lesson.
That is a translation of a poem in Irish I published in An tUltach. If you think it isnât good I can say it suffered in translation!
Propaganda called the Gulf War a clean war, a surgical operation, but here was killing comparable to Hiroshima and Dresden, a re-enactment of âBomberâ Harrisâ aerial murder raid on Lubeck on 28 March 1942. Abrams tanks of the 1st Mechanised Infantry Division equipped with bulldozer blades drove parallel to Iraqi trenches and buried soldiers alive. The Basra road carnage of fleeing helpless soldiers reminded one of the worst features of the First World War. The systematic destruction of the civil infrastructure of Iraq has led to the ill-health of millions of people and a high infant mortality. The allies sought to destroy en masse the Iraqi forces in Kuwait and south-eastern Iraq. These were mainly peasant conscripts and reservists. Their surrender would have been a matter of course but the allies chose to treat them as âtarget richâ. Thousands of fuel-air explosives and slurry bombs and cluster bombs which spill out hundreds of grenades, and missiles from the Multiple Rocket Launch System (MRLS) poured down on the unfortunates. There is little sympathy in western Europe and in the United States of America for the victims. Governments of western Europe and the USA deliberately deny their peoples access to the culture of the Arabs. Pope John Paul stood almost isolated in his condemnation of the Gulf War. The disciples of the Lord fled as at Gethsemane.
I welcome my inheritance of
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