[Music] let us all together thank god this beautiful occasion where we can all together proclaim the joy of spreading peace the joy of loving one another and the joy acknowledging that the poorest of the poor are our brothers and sisters as we have gathered here to thank god for this gift of peace i have given you all the prayer for peace that saint francis of sisi prayed many years ago and i wonder he must have felt the need what we feel today to pray for i think you have all god with you we'll say it
together lord make me a channel of your peace that prayer there is hatred i may bring love that faith there is wrong i may bring the spirit of forgiveness that where there is this i may bring harmony that where there is error i may bring fruit that where there is doubt i may bring faith that where there is despair i may bring hope that further our shadows i may bring light that further is sadness i may bring joy lord grant that i may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted to understand then to be
understood to love then to be loved for it is by forgetting self that one finds it is by forgiving that one is forgiven it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life amen god loved the world so much that he gave his son and he gave him to a virgin the blessed virgin mary and she the moment he came in her life went in haste to give him to others and what did she do there she did the work of the handmaid just sir just spread that joy of loving through service and jesus christ
loved you and loved me and he gave his life for us and as if that was not enough for him he kept on saying love as i have loved you as i love you now and how do we have to love to love in the giving for he gave his life for us and he keeps on giving and he keeps on giving right here everywhere in our own lives and in the lives of others it was not enough for him to die for us he wanted that we love one another that we see him in
each other that's why he said blessed are the clean of earth for they shall see god and to make sure that we understand what he means to say that we are of death we are going to be judged on what we have been to the poor to the hungry the naked the homeless and he makes himself that hungry one that naked one that homeless one not only hungry for bread but hungry for love not only naked for a piece of cloth but naked with that of that human dignity not only homeless for a room to
live but homeless for that being forgotten being unloved uncared being nobody to nobody having forgotten what is human love what is human touch what is to be loved by somebody and he says whatever you did the list of this my brethren you did it to me it is so beautiful for us to become holy through this love for holiness is not the luxury of the few it is a simple duty for each one of us and through this love we can become holy to this love for one another and today when i received this award
i personally am most unworthy and i having about poverty to be able to understand the poor i choose the poverty of our poor people but i am grateful and i'm very happy to receive it in the name of the hungry of the naked of the homeless of the crippled of the blind of the lepers of all those people who feel unwanted unloved uncared throughout the way of the society people who have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everybody in their name i accept our vote and i'm sure this award is going
to bring an understanding love between the rich and the poor and this is what jesus has insisted so much that's why jesus came on earth to proclaim the good news to the poor and through this award and to all of us gathered here together we are wanting to proclaim the good news to the poor that god loves them that we love them that they are somebody to us that they too have been created by the same loving hand of god to love and to be loved our poor people are great people are very lovable people
they don't need our pity and sympathy they need our understanding love they need our respect they need that we treat them with dignity and i think this is the greatest poverty that we experience that we have in front of them who may be dying for a piece of veg but they died with such dignity i never forget when i brought a man from the street he was covered with maggots his face was the only place that was clean and yet that man when we brought him to our home for the dying he said just one
sentence i have lived like an animal in the street but i'm going to die like an angel loved and cared and he died beautifully he went home to god for death is nothing but going home to god and he having enjoyed that love that being wanted that being loved being somebody to somebody at the last moment brought that joy in his life and i feel one thing i want to share with you all the greatest destroyer of peace today is the cry of the innocent unborn child for if a mother can murder her own child
in her own room what is left for you and for me to kill each other even in the scripture it is written even if mother could forget her child i will not forget you i have curved you in the palm of my hand even if mother could forget but today millions of unborn children are being killed and we say nothing in the newspapers you read numbers of this one and that one being filled this being this one but nobody speaks of the millions of little ones who have been have been conceived with the same life
as you and i with the life of god and we say nothing we allow it to me the nations who have legalized abortion they are the poorest nation they are afraid of little one they are afraid of the unborn child and the child must die because they don't want to feed one more child to educate one more child the child must die and here i ask you in the name of these little ones for it was that unborn child that recognized the presence of jesus when mary came to visit elizabeth her cousin as we read
in the gospel the moment mary came into the house the little one in the womb of his mother lived with joy recognized the prince of peace and so today let us hear make a strong resolution we are going to save every little child every unborn child give them a chance to be born and what we are doing we are fighting abortion by adoption and the good god has blessed the work so beautifully that we are saved thousands of children and thousands of children have found a home where they are loved they are wanted they are
care we have brought so much joy in the homes that there was not a child and so today i asked since his majesty is here and before you all who come from different countries let us all pray that we have the courage to stand by the unborn child and give the child an opportunity to love and to be loved and i think with god's grace we will be able to bring peace in the world we have an opportunity here in norway you are with god's blessing you are well to do you but i'm sure in
the families many of our homes maybe we are not hungry for a piece of bread but maybe there is somebody there in the family who is unwanted unloved and cared for gotten there is love love begins at home and love to be true has to hurt i never forget the little child who taught me a very beautiful lesson they heard in calcutta the children that mother teresa has no sugar for her children and this little one hindu boy four years old he went home and he told his parents i will not eat sugar for three
days i will give my sugar to mother teresa how much a little child they need after three days they brought him to our house and there was this little one who scarcely pronounce my name he loved the great love he loved until it hurt and this is what i bring before you to love one another until but don't forget that there are many children many children many men and women who haven't got what you have and remember to love them until it hurts some time ago this to you will sound very strange but i brought
a girl child from the street and i could see in the face of the child that child was hungry god knows how many days they had not eaten so i gave her piece of bread and the little one started eating the bread crumb by crumb and i eat i said to the child eat the bread eat the bread and she looked at me and said i'm afraid to eat the bread because i'm afraid when it is finished i will be hungry again this is a reality and yet there is that greatness of the poor one
evening a gentleman came to our house and said there is a hindu family with eight children have not eaten for a long time do something for them and i took price and i went immediately and there was this mother those little ones faces shining eyes from sheer hunger she took the rice from my hands she divided into two and she went out when she came back i asked her where did you go what did you do and one answer she gave me they are hungry also she knew that the next door neighbor a muslim family
was hungry what surprised me most not that she gave the rise but what surprised me most that in her suffering in her hunger she knew that somebody else was hungry and she had the courage to share and she had the love to share and this is what i'm i want you to love the poor and never turn your back to the poor for in turning your back to the poor you are turning it to christ for he had made himself the hungry one the naked one the homeless one so that you and i have an
opportunity to love him because where is god how can we love god it's not enough to say my god i love you but my god i love you yeah i can enjoy this but i give up i could eat that sugar but i give that show if i stay here all day and the whole night you would be surprised of the beautiful things that people do to share the joy of giving and so my prayer for you is the truth we bring prayer in our homes and from the fruit of prayer will be that we
believe that in the poor it is christ and if we really believe we will begin to love and if we love naturally we will try to do something first in our own home next door neighbor in the country we live in the whole world and let us all join in that one prayer god give us courage to protect the unborn child for the child is the greatest gift of god to a family to our nation and to the whole world god bless you you
