{"id":4671,"date":"2006-11-12T08:48:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T08:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/our-daily-bread.html"},"modified":"2006-11-12T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T08:48:18","slug":"our-daily-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/our-daily-bread.html","title":{"rendered":"Our daily bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pope at today’s Angelus<\/a><\/p>\n

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"Jesus taught his disciples to pray by asking the heavenly Father not for \u2018my\u2019 but for \u2018our\u2019 daily bread. Thus he wanted every man to feel co-responsibility for his brothers, so that no one would lack what is necessary to live.\u201d In the reflection given by Benedict XVI before the Angelus, as rain poured down on St Peter\u2019s square, these words linked a liturgical celebration and a problem of social justice, thanksgiving to God for the end-of-season harvest and the tragedy of world hunger. The liturgical occasion was due to Thanksgiving Day, celebrated today in Italy to thank God for the harvest. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cThe earth: a gift for the entire human family\u201d. Benedict VI stressed the educational value of praying and thanking God before meals. \u201cThis custom should be preserved or rediscovered, because it teaches one not to take the \u2018daily bread\u2019 for granted, but to recognise it as a gift of Providence,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should get used to blessing the Creator for everything: for air and water, precious elements that are the basis of life on our planet, as well as for the food that God offers us for our sustenance through the fecundity of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turning to the theme of Thanksgiving Day, he said: \u201cThe produce of the earth is a gift intended by God \u2018for the entire human family\u2019.\u201d Thus, the \u201ctragedy of hunger\u201d that remains \u201cvery serious\u201d should be of interest to all mankind. The pope drew attention to the latest report of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN organization dedicated to this sector), which confirms \u201cwhat the Church knows very well from its direct experience with communities and missionaries\u201d, namely that \u201c800 million people are malnourished and too many people, especially children, die of hunger\u201d. Benedict XVI asked: \u201cHow to tackle this situation? Despite being repeatedly denounced, it shows no signs of being resolved and in some cases, it is even getting worse.\u201d Recalling his predecessors \u2013 Paul VI and John Paul II \u2013 the pope drew attention to the Church\u2019s condemnation of the imbalanced distribution of goods and the ill-considered use of natural resources. \u201cStructural causes linked to the system of government of the world economy, which allocates most resources of the planet to a minority of the population, must be eliminated. This injustice has been denounced on several occasions by my venerated Predecessors, the Servants of God, Paul VI and John Paul II. To make a large-scale impact, it is necessary to \u2018convert\u2019 the global development model; it is not only the scandal of hunger that demands this, but also environmental and energy emergencies.\u201d But Benedict XVI did not limit himself to denunciation or to highlighting ecology: both should be rooted in a \u201cnew culture\u201d: \u201cEach person and family can and should do something to alleviate hunger in the world by adopting a lifestyle and consumption patterns that are compatible with safeguarding creation and with criteria of justice that cultivate the land in every country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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