" who refuses the historical experience is forced to relive " The Encyclical of Pope Pius XI to October 2, 1931
"A new threat and scourge largely already affecting the flock entrusted to us, and the hardest part earliest and most affectionately loved, namely ' childhood, the humble, poor workers and proletarians. We speak of the severe distress and the financial crisis looming over the peoples in all countries and leads to a continuous increase in unemployment and scary. We see forced into inertia and then reduced the poverty even extreme, with their families, such a multitude of honest and willing workers, nothing more desirable than honorably to earn by the sweat of the brow, just the divine mandate, the daily bread that call every day from the Lord. Their moans touched by Our paternal heart and make us repeat, with the same tenderness of sympathy, the word already out from the Heart of the Divine Master beloved above the crowd fainting from hunger, " I have compassion on the crowd "(Mark VIII, 2) But the most passionate addresses Our sympathy to the immense multitude of children, the most innocent victims of this sad state of affairs; begging bread," but there were those who I gave them " 2 , and squalor of poverty are doomed to see that smile fade and the joy that their souls unconsciously naive look about him.
And now the winter approaching and with it all the suffering and deprivation that followed the cold season brings the poor and especially at the early childhood, so it is to be feared that the worsening plight of the unemployment above that we have deprecated, so that not carrying out the poverty of many poor families and their children abandoned, they may be - God forbid! - Driven to exasperation.
to all this thinking forward to the heart of our Father, and so on such occasions as did our predecessors and more recently Our immediate Predecessor, Benedict XV sm, we raise our voice and we address the Our appeal to all who have faith and meaning of Christian love: the appeal to almost a crusade of charity and aid. Which, while the bodies will feed, comfort and help to give all souls will be reborn in them a quiet confidence, away those evil thoughts that wont give the misery in people's minds. Turn off the flames of hatred and passions that divide us, to arouse and keep those of love and harmony, and the closest and most noble bond of peace and prosperity of individuals and society.
is therefore a crusade of mercy and love and no doubt to sacrifice what we all recall, as children of one father, members of one big family is the family of God, then we all share as brothers of one family, both of prosperity and joy, as of adversity and pain that affect our brothers.
In this crusade call upon all as a sacred duty inherent in that precept everything just the law of the Gospel and Jesus proclaimed as its greatest and first commandment of all the precepts, even summary and synthesis of all the others, the precept of charity so that instilled a similar issue and repeatedly, almost pass in those days of his pontificate implacable hatred of war and our beloved predecessor.
Now sweetest We pointed out this obligation, not only as a supreme duty and includes all the Christian law, but also act as a sublime and perfect, brought in more special for souls that are more generous and more open under of kindness and of evangelical perfection.
Nor do we believe having to engage with many words, so it is clear that this alone generosity of hearts, that's just the fervor of Christian souls with their holy rush of dedication and sacrifice for the salvation of his brothers and especially of the most compassionate and needy, with 'is the multitude of innocent children, can overcome, in the unanimous effort of harmony, the most serious difficulties of the present. And since one side effect of the rivalry of nations, but also of enormous expenditures, stolen public wealth, and therefore not extraordinary crisis of this last factor is undoubtedly the unbridled arms race, we can not refrain Our admonition from renewing the provident and the same Our Predecessor, mourners that has so far played together and we urge all of you, venerable brothers, because with all the means at your disposal to preaching and publications you strive to enlighten minds and open hearts according to the dictates of right reason, safer, and much more for the Christian faith.
smiles We hope that each of you can be the reference point of charity and generosity of its faithful, and also the center of the distribution of relief offered by them. If in some diocese be more convenient, you do not see difficulties Head to the respective metropolitan or some charitable institutions of proven efficiency and your trust.
Already we have encouraged to use all means available to you, prayer, preaching, the press, but we want to be the first to appeal to your faithful, to pray " in visceribus Christi ', to respond generously to your charity appeal, as of now, doing everything that you'll be putting in the hearts, after they were made aware of this encyclical letter.
But since all human efforts are not enough without intent for divine help, all raise fervent prayers to the Giver of all good because in His infinite mercy shorten the period of tribulation, and also on behalf of the brothers who are suffering more than ever repeat intense prayer Jesus himself taught us: " Give us this day our daily bread .
Let all remember, in their encouragement and comfort, that the Redeemer will consider as done to himself what we have done for the poor and, according to another of his comforting words, take care of children for his sake it's like taking care of his own person.
The party then that today the Church celebrates reminds us, almost at the end of Our exhortations, the moving words of Jesus after the second phrase of St. John Chrysostom, impregnable walls erected to protect souls of children, added: " heed that ye despise one of these little ones for I tell you that their angels always behold the face of my Father in heaven "
It will be these angels in heaven that will present to the Lord's acts of charity performed by generous hearts to children, and they also get to all those who have taken to heart so holy a cause, the most abundant blessings.
Also, now approaching the annual Feast of Christ the King, whose reign, and whose peace we hoped for from the very beginning of Our Pontificate, We feel greatly in preparation for it should be held in various parish churches triduums solemn thoughts and ask God for peace and his gifts. In the hope of which impart to you, venerable brothers, and all those who correspond to our paternal appeal Apostolic Blessing. "
Sadness exhortation to the precept of charity to make up for the austerity to which the survivors had to undergo the economic crisis, is of great relevance, given the context in which we are, and the fear of an unbridled arms race, which culminated in the Second World War, is a reminder to reflect on the tragic events of the recur since the parallelism of the circumstances.
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