PeterGec Name and picture from twetch — not on-chain. The signature is; the profile is not.

Happy New Year 2021 🥳🍾

In a world where we have such riches,
so many resources for giving food to everybody,
you cannot understand how there can be
so many hungry children,
so many children without education,
so many poor!

The poverty today
is an outrage!

I believe that our times tell us of such poverty all over the
world, and that is a scandal!

“So this was your first flight. Were you scared?”

“Well, to tell you the truth, I didn’t dare put my full weight down on the seat.”
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He attended the mass still clad in the same vestments. Then he donned the ducal vestments and returned to the stone, where homage and the oath of fealty were rendered him.
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They answered: “He is and he will be.” Then the peasant slapped the duke gently. After having promised the peasant he would be exempt from public burdens, the duke mounted the stone and brandishing the sword he promised the people to be a righteous judge.

“Who comes forward so boldly?”

The people answered that this was the prince.

Then the peasant asked again: “Can he be a judge?” Is he concerned with the wellbeing of the country? Was he born a free man? Does he observe the true religion?
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All were proper in dress except the duke who walked dressed as a poor shepherd with a shepherd’s crook in his hand. The peasant sitting on the stone cried out in Slovenian:
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You, Francis, why have you renounced the riches of a Pope,
like a luxurious apartment, or an enormous car?

Instead you prefer a small apartment nearby,
and you even take the bus for bishops.

Why have you renounced to wealth?
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Why did you want to be Pope?

Do you know what it means when a person
doesn't really love himself?

Somebody who has the desire to become Pope,
doesn't like himself.

And God doesn't bless him.

No, l never wanted to become Pope.

Is that okay?
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Surrounded by the people and holding a black cow with his right hand and an emaciated mare with his left, a peasant mounted this stone.This duty belonged to him by right of succession.He who was all garbed in red, with banners carried in front ofthe duke.

There is nothing to compare with this custom observed in Carinthia, where even today in the vicinity of the town of Saint Vitus one can see a stone of marble in a meadow. 🙂

The world today is mostly deaf. And I think that among ourselves, the priests, there are many deaf ones. I'm talking about getting involved in people's lives ...closeness.
Talk little, listen a lot, say just enough, and always look people in the
eye. 🙂

The first from the Southern hemisphere.

The first Jesuit.

But most of all the first Pope ever
to choose the name of Francis.
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Mr. President, I shall read from Dr. Felicijan’s book where he quotes Bodin's description of this unique Slovenian custom:
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You know that the conclave had to give a Bishop to Rome.

It seems that my brother Cardinals went almost to the end of the
world to find one.

But here we are.
Yes here we are, all of us.
With great expectations of the first Pope
from the Americas.
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When Jefferson read Bodin’s “Republic,” he learned of the ancient Slovenian ritual known as the Installation of the Duke of Carinthia. This custom, ... , was living proof that the social contract did, in fact, exist at least among the Slovenians. 🙂

No society ever made such a contract with those who ruled it, they contended. Indeed, Jefferson may have felt that way himself at one time. But he found historical evidence to the contrary.
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He and his order will give an example for a new brotherhood of men

dedicated to the common good.

And isn't that exactly what is needed today?

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Many objected to the theory, including those who lived during the time of the American Revolution. They claimed that while the theory was interesting it was, nevertheless, a part of the philosophers’ dream world.
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This, Mr. President, is the contractual theory suited in its most basic terms. It is a useful concept in that one can describe governmental problems and powers by describing the terms of the contract.
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He decides to live his life in total poverty,
without any possessions, in solidarity with the poor,
the sick and the outcast,
like Jesus,
as a sign that a complete transformation of attitudes
is needed.
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lt dawns on Francis that a fundamental change

can only be brought about by taking the Gospel

seriously.
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Based upon these counterpoised assumptions – ...– they developed the theory that there is a contract between those who are to rule and those who are to be ruled, and each party has rights and obligations under this contract.
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