Pope John Paul's Lenten Message: The Lord will prepare a banquet for all peoples

Some points:

The experience of the Father's love urges Christians to give of themselves to others, obeying a logic of service and solidarity in openness to their brothers and sisters. Still today we see immense areas in which the work of Christians must bring to bear the charity of God. Those who are lonely, those on the margins of society, the hungry, the victims of violence, those who have no hope, must be able to experience in the Church's loving care the tenderness of the heavenly Father, who from the very beginning of the world, has kept every individual in mind in order to fill each one with his blessings

It is not only individuals who have opportunities to show their readiness to invite the poor to share in their prosperity. International institutions, national governments and the centres controlling the world economy must all undertake brave plans and projects to ensure a more just sharing of the goods of the earth, both within individual countries and in relations between nations

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