- My personal vocation is to be a pilgrim of peace. … I would prefer a thousand times more to be killed that to kill anyone. This personal position is founded on the Gospel. … We need only turn to the Beatitudes to see that the option for Christians is clear. We, as Christians, are on the side of nonviolence and this is in no way an option for weakness and passivity. Opting for nonviolence means to believe more strongly in the power of truth, justice and love than in the power of wars, weapons and hatred.
By Dom Helder Camara (From: ‘Peacemaking Day by Day’, Reading for October, 10) – published at http://www.dirknetz.de
Do you know who comforted herself that at least she was not the offender? Anne Boleyn when she couldn’t save herself any more from death at the hands of Henry VIII. Then she said she would rather be a victim of a murderer than the murderer herself. Things were terrible back then and the poor lady really couldn’t save her life any more, she was entirely at the mercy of those who had none (as so many before and after her during the tyranny of her ex). But her daughter, Elizabeth I, had learnt to do a lot of things way better than her father had though she didn’t dare to say so in public…