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DMA 2015 Personal and community promote a culture of Peace. The page journeys this year will be guided by the on The Word contributes toward Chapter event, defined as an facilitating prayer with the young people experience of the Holy Spirit and and the laity, while the article Charism ongoing education. To each FMA and Leadership presents the community it entrusted concrete choices characteristics of a person who fills a and action steps for the future. The title dual role as animator and community of the Chapter Document Broaden the member, with efficacious leadership Vision-Missionaries of Hope and Joy with charismatic reference to some FMA with the Young is a call and commitment models. The themes on Consecrated Life to bring to reality the lived experience find a place in the articles in Women in the characterized by a strong missionary Context with the presentation of the beauty dynamism. The DMA magazine places and richness of a femininity which, itself in this view, and will accompany knowingly accepted, give color and warmth the FMA, laity, and young people in the to the joy of one’s identity of consecrated. In the Communicating section, however, the process of the assimilation and theme of consecration is compared to translation of the vital content that today’s society and with the Magisterium of emerged from the recent GC XXIII held the Church. in Rome Finally, in the Insert of each issue the Some aspects of the document will be Millennium Development Goals are studied especially in the Dossier entitled presented from the struggle against hunger Broaden the Vision. This will serve as a and poverty to environmental protection, leitmotif and will urge us to scrutinize the from the promotion of women’s rights to the reality and the world with new eyes. The defeat of infant mortality…challenges that historic moment in which we are living is cannot be ignored. also rich in signs and invitations. In Our magazine wants to broaden our vision, particular, the Year of Consecrated Life to be a formation tool not only for the FMA, and the Bicentennial of the birth of Don but also for the many laypersons and young Bosco are gifts and appeals to render people who frequent our houses. our identity as consecrated persons Furthermore, it can also become a help for more luminous in the Church and community animators, and educators who today’s society. are called to be, with the young, missionaries of hope and joy. This year DMA presents new articles Have a good year, therefore, in company that touch topical issues. Peace is the with the DMA magazine! Way to get to know actual situations of conflict through the witness of FMA and The Editors laity who are taking concrete steps to Peace is the Way Peace is Not a Dream Emilia di Massimo, Gabriella Imperatore Peace is the Way Peace is Not a Dream "Stop, please, I beg you with all my those in which no one is interested because heart, stop." This was the heartfelt there are no economic interests, they may appeal of Pope Francis in the Sunday arise as a question or an apparently local Angelus against the wars that are event, but they always possess international ravaging the Middle East, Iraq and the or global aspects. The media revolution has Ukraine. It is a peace that is missing not produced a series of social, economic, and only in the territories in the news during political changes, thanks in great part to the recent time, because the places where advent of digitization of the access to bloody conflicts exist are scattered information; it has contributed toward around the whole world. There are profoundly changing the very concept of dramas that are not always told, that communication. The development of draw an impressive geopolitical map interactive means has led to the proliferation because the number of seemingly and the multiplication of channels for access intractable, lasting conflicts, also due to information, and these have changed the because international diplomacy that is way in which the act of communication often inconclusive. takes place.We are informed every day about Islamic terrorism and 'global warfare', The world is at war. Never, since the end of even though the reports may be biased and World War II, has it been so true like today. often exist for mere propaganda purposes. The world has not known a day in which Yet no one speaks of the dozens of other each country has lived in “peace”, conflicts that are fought in the poorest understood not as the absence of war but peripheries of the global village, where as an attitude, both in personal and social globalized information does not arrive.Then behavior. Looking for the causes of failure is we ask ourselves: "Are we really better not simple. Nelson Mandela, the great informed and freer in our choices?” A map African leader, defender of human rights synthesizing the current conflicts could be and Nobel Peace Prize winner, argued: an evalution that everyone can make “Peace is not a dream; it can become a personally to answer the question. Presently reality, but to keep it you have to be able to 62 nations are involved in international or dream”. Attention, however, must be paid internal war, to which we must add 549 not only to the great conflicts, those that militias, drug cartels, independence groups, become a media phenomenon and turn into separatist groups and anarchist groups spectacles, but also to the unknown involved. Hot spots are: Egypt (popular conflicts, uprising against the government), Libya (war against Islamic militants), Mali (war against the Tuareg and Islamist militants), Nigeria (war against Islamic militants), continued on this path the whole world Central African Republic (Civil War), would go blind Republic of Congo (war against rebel groups), Somalia (war against Islamic Will we ever succeed to look beyond our militants), Sudan (war against rebel groups), blindness to create a global community of and South Sudan (civil war). The number of interconnected humanity? Terrorist attacks, current conflicts is really incredible. Trying hidden or declared wars, small and great to understand a conflict means attending acts of violence that touch every part of the the school of 'faces', to avoid the risk of world must bring to birth in us the desire to focusing attention only on the facts, live for peace above all else. Often acts of forgetting that the protagonists are people violence are rampant because of the lack of who have feelings, emotions and harbor in education, of harmful nationalism, their hearts many desires, just like each one ignorance, and deep economic disparities of us. between social classes. There are root causes, but there is hope that these causes Peace is still the answer can be changed, using but peace as a means against war. Given the failure of many peace initiatives, Deepak Chopra - an Indian doctor - offers Words of Peace an alternative strategy to defeat the culture of war, the same one that Mahatma Gandhi proposed: "There is no way to peace, peace is the wayThe Indian doctor said: “Like any habit, war has dug a furrow in our minds. We are looking for the war like a cigarette smoker constantly looks for a cigarette while complaining that we must stop. War has become a habit, a vice. To defeat it, one must assume the habit of peace”. The episodes of war, violence, and terrorism arouse fear and anguish in the soul of our contemporary society. All over Each of us can help to promote a culture of the world people yearn to find peace, and Peace, multiplying ordinary daily actions: be able to give comfort to the suffering and oppressed. However, it would be naïve and . being Peace superficial to attempt to define these . thinking Peace episodes as examples of pure evil and . feeling Peace . speaking Peace depravity. In reality we are all involved in the . acting in Peace violence that takes place in the world. creating Peace Everyone is involved in the intricate network . sharing Peace of social injustice, economic disparities, ecological disaster, war, and terrorism. Mahatma Gandhi declared that if we Women in the Context Women in Joy-filled Lands Palma Lionetti Starting a new column dedicated to women response of the feminine genius. A certain while avoiding repetition and clichés is no completeness will come about when easy undertaking. Using a literary metaphor, women's contribution will be fully there could be a repetition of what recognized alongside male consciousness. happened in the well-known novel by Jules However, to make this journey, which is Verne "Journey to the Center of the Earth", more an inner pilgrimage as Pope Francis in which all of the tools that the protagonists says, we need to take on a state of have at the beginning (the barometer, the "listening" before we get into those precious weapons, the picks ..) are lost during the and fruitful lands of the great resource that trip, leaving the person naked before the is femininity. forces of nature. There is an odyssey, therefore, telling of Certainly, it is always risky writing about women far from any presumed heroicity, women, but this notwithstanding, it is always linked more to ordinary life, the struggle of "amazing, magnificent, and splendid," as the condition of women; a more inner one of the protagonists of the journey, in an apparent immobility, yet free aforementioned novel expressed or noted at from the constriction and imprisonment of the conclusion of every undertaking, her freedom. because one faces it with the confidence and optimism with which he/she looks at the Therefore, moving in the lands of a possibility of penetrating into the mysteries conscious and joyful femininity perhaps of a different dimension, and in our case, means leaving behind common sense, and that of femininity beginning from the recovery of an authentic sense of self worth.

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