{"id":10174,"date":"2015-07-24T08:55:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T08:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2015-07-24T08:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T08:55:45","slug":"leaders-of-our-nation-be-good-parents-cardinal-charles-bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2015\/07\/24\/leaders-of-our-nation-be-good-parents-cardinal-charles-bo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLEADERS OF OUR NATION, BE GOOD  PARENTS.\u201d  &#8211; Cardinal Charles Bo ."},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>The message of Cardinal Charles Bo on PARENTS\u2019 DAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( It will be broadcast by His Eminence in four languages in RVA, Manila: Burmese, Kachin, Po and Sakaw on 26<sup>th<\/sup>. <\/strong><strong>July)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happy Parents day to all of you.<\/p>\n<p>Today we celebrate the gift of\u00a0 our parents today.\u00a0\u00a0 As the Pope says, we celebrate their intergenerational contribution to our formation as human beings.\u00a0 Every parent is holy, every parent represents the love of God.\u00a0 The\u00a0 English\u00a0 author Rudolf Kipling\u00a0 has a great\u00a0 saying :\u00a0 \u201c Since God\u00a0 cannot be\u00a0 every- where, He\u00a0 gave us parents\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holiness of the family<\/strong> :Pope Francis has regularly spoken about the holiness of family.\u00a0 He will canonize the\u00a0 parents of St Teresa of\u00a0 Child Jesus.\u00a0 One family and three saints.\u00a0 Holy Family!\u00a0 All our parents are saints. They give us life.\u00a0 Pope acknowledges\u00a0 saints are nurtured by parents. \u201c No good tree gives bad fruit, no bad tree gives good fruit\u201d(Lk: 6:43). God\u00a0 gives us life.\u00a0 It is the parents who make us holy, honest and hard working.\u00a0 Jesus lived with his family for thirty years, working with his parents and growing in wisdom. (Lk: 2:40).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our parents gave us the most precious gift : Life and Faith.\u00a0 A faith that guides us in this life and lead us to everlasting life.\u00a0\u00a0 We have many parents in Bible.\u00a0 The\u00a0 first book of the bible\u00a0 opens up with the creation of our first parents.\u00a0\u00a0 That creation was the outpouring of\u00a0 God\u2019s love for humanity.\u00a0 God was the father.\u00a0 We have great father and mother\u00a0 figures in the Bible.\u00a0 Our Parents are like them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fathers<\/strong> : Take Noah \u2013 a man who listened to God and\u00a0 protected his family from disaster.\u00a0 A good father always\u00a0 guides his children to listen to God like Noah did.\u00a0\u00a0 Abraham was the father of the nation, father of faith.\u00a0 God tested his faith\u00a0 many times. But Abraham was unwavering. Today\u2019s fathers face the same tests from the world.\u00a0 Secularism, consumerism, threat to family. They have protected us from all these evils and\u00a0 make us to believe in one living God as Abraham did.\u00a0 Moses was\u00a0 another great father figure.\u00a0 He was a simple man. He could not talk properly. But he led the Hebrew people out of slavery.\u00a0 Our parents, simple but are guided by God, to lead us from all that enslave us \u2013 sin, evil.\u00a0\u00a0 Ultimately\u00a0 we come the greatest\u00a0 father figure of\u00a0 Bible : Joseph.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the guardian of Jesus, guiding him in his early stages and preparing him to face the world. Our God becomes \u2018Abba the Father\u201d. Jesus showed us that\u00a0 our root is in the\u00a0 Trinity.\u00a0\u00a0 Our God lives in and as a family.\u00a0 For a Christian nothing is more consoling than calling God as \u201c Abba the Father\u201d\u00a0 ( Mk 14;36, Romans 8:15; Gal: 4:6).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mothers<\/strong> :\u00a0 Bible is full of them. Starting with our first mother Eve.\u00a0 She was not obedient and lost the protection of God but\u00a0 was faithful in\u00a0 creating a family. Sarah was the Mother of the\u00a0 great nation Israel. Rebekha, the\u00a0 mother of Jacob.\u00a0 Hannah the mother of\u00a0 Samuel.\u00a0\u00a0 Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. All these mothers were faithful to\u00a0 God\u2019s plan despite all great difficulties.\u00a0 Our mothers too help us to grow in faith through their example.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That brings us to our\u00a0 heavenly mother.\u00a0 Mother Mary. Church\u00a0\u00a0 calls her Mother of God,\u00a0 Mother Most holy.\u00a0\u00a0 She is the Mother of every one.\u00a0\u00a0 In dark\u00a0 moments of\u00a0 human suffering she appeared in various places to console and guide us :\u00a0 In Lourdes, in Fatima, in\u00a0 Velanganni and\u00a0 other places.\u00a0\u00a0 She is our protector.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love and Gratitude to Our Parents<\/strong>:\u00a0 The whole Bible instructs us that\u00a0\u00a0 our love for God should be manifested in our love for our parents. The book of Exodus God exhorts the\u00a0 Israelites\u00a0\u00a0 to\u00a0 \u201c honor Your Father and Mother\u201d ( Exodus 20:12). That is the fourth Commandment.\u00a0 Another\u00a0 Command is echoed in the\u00a0\u00a0 Gospel of Mathew :\u00a0 For God\u2019s sake honor your\u00a0 Father and Mother\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ( Mathew 15: 4).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St Paul exhorts that\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c &#8220;Honor your father and mother&#8221;&#8211;which is the only\u00a0 commandment with a promise&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.&#8221;\u00a0 ( Eph : 6-14).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Threat to Fathers and\u00a0 Mothers\u00a0 and Family<\/strong> : Father, mother and Children, make the earthly trinity.\u00a0 But family is under threat today.\u00a0 Pope Francis has been waging a war against\u00a0 this evil design of the modern world.\u00a0\u00a0 He\u00a0 is calling forth a\u00a0 significant\u00a0\u00a0 Synod\u00a0 from October 4-25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 in Rome on Family.\u00a0 Pope Francis has sent a clarion call to the world :\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFamily is\u00a0 the first vocation of all.\u00a0 Family is the mission of every Christian\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Threat comes from Western culture.\u00a0\u00a0 Marriages are redefined. There\u00a0 is no father and there is no mother\u00a0\u00a0 in those families.\u00a0 New forms of cruelties are inflicted on children.\u00a0 Their rights are trampled upon by\u00a0 Western life styles.\u00a0 Pope once again\u00a0 says : \u201c We must reaffirm the rights of the children to grow up with a father and a Mother:\u00a0 Once again\u00a0 the Synodal document\u00a0 \u2018<em>Instrumentum Laboris (IL)\u00a0 <\/em>the role of family is reasserted that the family is in Salvific Plan. \u201cThe words of eternal life, which Jesus gave to his disciples, included the teachings\u00a0 on marriage and family\u201d ( No 42)<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0 Christians we are called to the vocation of the family. Parents make up good family. Efforts are made\u00a0 to destroy the family through\u00a0 weird forms\u00a0 of marriages\u00a0 sanctioned by western countries\u00a0 which are\u00a0\u00a0 trying to destroy the family.\u00a0 Family\u00a0 and parents are\u00a0 the sacred\u00a0 treasure of humanity.\u00a0\u00a0 Certain forms of marriage\u00a0 sanctioned by the West,\u00a0 abuse the children\u2019s right.\u00a0 Children have a right to MOTHER AND FATHER.\u00a0\u00a0 Family\u00a0 is being destroyed today. Family\u00a0 values are diluted. Without them, the whole human race would be endangered. Speaking on the urgency of\u00a0 protecting the family\u00a0 the Holy Father in his address in Manila\u00a0 strongly warned :\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Every threat to the family is a threat to Society itself. The future of humanity as Saint John Paul II often said, passes through family.\u00a0 The future passes through family.\u00a0 So protect your family!\u00a0 Protect your family !\u00a0\u00a0 When the family is devalued, as it is done now in certain places, it is a loss for society especially to the youth!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Parents are the first evangelizers<\/strong>:\u00a0 Parents\u00a0\u00a0 Nurture us in Faith : Family is the first university where we were schooled in great values of life.\u00a0 The great professors are our\u00a0 parents.\u00a0\u00a0 The wisdom of our parents is never overtaken by the best professors in the\u00a0 Universities of the world.\u00a0 Bible realizes this and urges us\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMy Son listen to your father\u2019s instruction and\u00a0 do not forsake your Mother\u2019s teaching\u201d (Prov 1: 8).\u00a0\u00a0 What\u00a0 they teach\u00a0 us\u00a0 sustains us from womb to tomb.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vatican II\u00a0 gloriously\u00a0 define this\u00a0 guiding role of our Parents<\/p>\n<p>Parents lead the way\u00a0 by example\u00a0 and family prayer, children and indeed everyone gathered around the family hearth will find a readier path to\u00a0 human maturity, salvation and holiness. Graced with the dignity and office of the fatherhood and\u00a0 motherhood, parents will energetically acquit themselves of a duty which devolves primary on them, namely education, especially religious education<\/p>\n<p><em>Vatican II : Gaudium et Spes No: 48.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mother Mary and Myanmar<\/strong>: In the Gospel\u00a0 we see Our Mother Mary in two roles. The role she assumes\u00a0 in Magnifiat.\u00a0 A woman\u00a0 who demands\u00a0 Justice\u00a0 to the poor.\u00a0 A mother who\u00a0 dreams that the \u2018 Mighty will lose their power and the lowly will be raised\u201d (Lk : 1: 47-53). A\u00a0 mother\u00a0 who worried about those who are hungry \u201c God\u00a0 will give the hungry good things to eat\u201d (LK 1: 53)\u00a0 The other mother is the mother of sorrows, with seven spears\u00a0 piercing her heart.\u00a0 Which mother is seen most in our\u00a0 dear Myanmar?\u00a0 A mother of Justice or Mother of Sorrows?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our expectation from Our Rulers : Be good Parents to whole Nation<\/strong>: Today we in Myanmar\u00a0\u00a0 remember\u00a0 that\u00a0 in our\u00a0 culture, in Buddhist\u00a0\u00a0 culture\u00a0 parents are venerated like\u00a0 Gods.\u00a0 And our\u00a0 Rulers in Myanmar\u00a0 traditions were treated\u00a0\u00a0 like\u00a0 parents.\u00a0 Our traditions\u00a0 enjoined on them the right and duty to promote the well being of all.\u00a0\u00a0 For fifty years in the dark days, we had no family.\u00a0\u00a0 When democracy came, we hoped, it would bring the\u00a0 family spirit of all.\u00a0 Great expectations were laid on our President\u00a0 and also on the leader of the opposition :\u00a0 Daw Aung San Sui Kyi.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A nation\u00a0 looks up to them to\u00a0 make this nation a true family.\u00a0 They were to be our\u00a0 parents.\u00a0 But after four years, Myanmar is still to be a family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Threats to Parents and Children In Myanmar<\/strong>: But our economic system is breaking the families.\u00a0 Millions of our youth are outside, away from\u00a0 their parents.\u00a0\u00a0 We were made poor, kept poor and the burden of poverty broke our family to pieces.\u00a0\u00a0 Integrity of family is being eroded by the country\u2019s poverty.\u00a0 Family\u00a0 spirit is weak. Most of the sons and daughters of Myanmar are poor. The recent\u00a0 census\u00a0 gives a painful picture how 40 percent of our people are living below the poverty line.\u00a0\u00a0 And in Chin state and Rakine\u00a0 where the huge number of displacement takes place, poverty is 70 percent.\u00a0 These states are origin of most of the migrants who seek unsafe migration. These unsafe migrations have broken families.\u00a0 In many villages there are only\u00a0 very old people are very\u00a0 small children.\u00a0\u00a0 Families are further broken by\u00a0 human trafficking in the border towns.\u00a0 Families are broken by lack of education and the need for children to be away\u00a0 from their parents.\u00a0 Families are broken by drug menaces, especially in the border villages where\u00a0 hundreds of our youth have lost their youth and life to addiction.\u00a0 Families are broken in Rakine and\u00a0 Kachin\u00a0 with more than 240,000 displaced people. Families are broken by\u00a0 recruitment of children in to armed conflict.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The children of poor families are vulnerable. They are sold, bartered, trafficked\u00a0 and killed.\u00a0 The Apocalyptic scene of\u00a0 Bible is enacted in poor homes where the mothers shed silent tears about their\u00a0 children gone away :\u00a0 A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing. Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone. ( Matthew : 2:18).\u00a0 Mother Mary in Myanmar could not be a\u00a0 Mary of magnificat, heralding justice to the weak and the vulnerable.\u00a0\u00a0 She is the mother of sorrows shedding the same tears of\u00a0 parents whose children are no more with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discriminated Children in the family of Myanmar<\/strong> : Why?\u00a0 We\u00a0 as\u00a0 a nation looked up to our leaders as\u00a0 our parents.\u00a0 But our rulers,\u00a0 have not lived up to our expectations as parents.\u00a0 They have become protectors of\u00a0 a crony capitalism, as the Pope warned in\u00a0 South America \u201c an economy that has profit as the sole motive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Now the world is asking a question:\u00a0 Are our rulers, rulers for all or\u00a0 for a few only.\u00a0 For\u00a0 centuries\u00a0 we have lived together as brothers and sisters.\u00a0 Various faiths lived in harmony.\u00a0\u00a0 For five decades Myanmar\u00a0 was\u00a0 in the radar of\u00a0\u00a0 a compassionate world, because its people were oppressed by evil men.\u00a0\u00a0 But from 2010, even after country opened up\u00a0 Myanmar is again on the radar.\u00a0\u00a0 There are people who do not want the family spirit to grow.\u00a0 Our leaders, who are like our parents, failed to control narratives of hatred spread by fringe groups owing to religion.\u00a0 War goes on parts of the country.\u00a0\u00a0 Our brothers and sisters, from all religions and races are affected by this hatred.\u00a0 More than 200,000 our brothers are now internally displaced.\u00a0 True love is\u00a0 restricted\u00a0 among religions through marriage act.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nearly 30 percent of our country men and women, according to the Census, do not have identity documents and\u00a0\u00a0 are not even\u00a0 recognized as\u00a0 citizens of this country.\u00a0 The family of Myanmar keeps\u00a0 one third of its kith and kin outside the family home.\u00a0\u00a0 Can a third of the population be orphaned from this family? Who are these people without a name and identity?<\/p>\n<p>The poor, as the Pope, constantly\u00a0 points out is the loser in the economic game.\u00a0 As he pointed out in his recent talk in South America, \u201c farmers have no land, labourers have no work\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This reality is enacted in our Motherland.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The land laws of 2012 have further alienated the farmers from their lands.\u00a0\u00a0 Companies and\u00a0 cronies continue to reap the\u00a0 benefits of the reform\u00a0 economy.\u00a0 The sons and daughters of\u00a0 Myanmar are losing their traditional\u00a0 land in\u00a0 Myitsone dam, Laputaung and Phkhant mines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Will these neglected and discriminated\u00a0 children of these great nation\u00a0 get justice from their parents \u2013 the rulers and politicians?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will the most vulnerable children of this country : the poor, the\u00a0 marginalized farmers, the \u00a0ethnic groups, women, handicapped and\u00a0 the human trafficked victims \u2013 get their due?\u00a0 Will this nation break the parochial walls of hatred and exploitation and create a family of nation?\u00a0 Will the rulers of this country\u00a0 avoid all temptations to\u00a0 discriminate people on the race and religion but bring about the dream of\u00a0 a family based only on moral character?\u00a0 A dream that was proclaimed decades ago for America by Martin Luther King Jr. <em>: \u201c I have a dream that my four children will one day live\u00a0 in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character\u201d. Will this nation\u2019s rulers accept equality of race and religion and build a family?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apart from their resolve our leaders need our prayers.\u00a0 We pray for our parents : the rulers.<\/p>\n<p>This year on the parents day we pray\u00a0 for our nation.\u00a0 We pray for\u00a0 justice and fair play that this nation may rise up to its glorious\u00a0 days through\u00a0 unity.\u00a0 Let the parents of this nation make\u00a0 this nation, a nation of\u00a0 freedom,\u00a0 a nation\u00a0 that is not seeking glory of the past,\u00a0\u00a0 but let our parents of this nation dream of a great country\u00a0 of family of rainbow people.\u00a0 Let us affirm the dignity of\u00a0 diversity but build the family spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Daw Aung San Sui Kyi says:<br \/> \u201cOur nation should become our protector.\u00a0 Our\u00a0 government\u00a0 leaders must take<br \/> the ethics of Parents in developing this nation.\u00a0 Daw Aung San Sui Kyi\u00a0 has<br \/> aptly summarized this role.<br \/> &#8221; My Opinion is,\u00a0 the greatest reward that any government could get is the<br \/> approval of the people. If\u00a0 the people are happy and the people are at peace<br \/> and the government has done something for them, that is the greatest reward<br \/> I think any government could hope for &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Let us hope and pray\u00a0 for such parents to be leaders of this nation.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Charles Bo .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-210-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"photo-2\" width=\"437\" height=\"655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The message of Cardinal Charles Bo on PARENTS\u2019 DAY ( It will be broadcast by His Eminence in four languages in RVA, Manila: Burmese, Kachin, Po and Sakaw on 26th. July) \u00a0 Happy Parents day to all of you. 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