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Because of what Jorgito has written in today's editorial in El Independiente...

I have some understanding of his filial emotions on the anniversary of his mother's death. 

In particular, I can glimpse her noble spirit, how she placed all of her refined education, her graciousness, at the service of a cause that is so important today: our people's true liberation.

My dear brothers and sisters, I think we should not only pray this evening for the eternal rest of our dear Doña Sarita, but above all we should take up her message, which every Christian ought to give intense life to. 

Many do not understand, and they think Christianity should not get involved in such things. But, to the contrary, you have just heard Christ's Gospel, that one must not love oneself so much as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life which history demands of us.

That those who would avoid the danger will lose their life, while those who out of love for Christ give themselves to the service of others will live. Like the grain of wheat that dies, but only apparently. If it did not die, it would remain alone. The harvest comes about because it dies, allows itself to be sacrificed in the earth and destroyed. Only by destroying itself, does it produce the harvest.

From her place in eternity, Doña Sarita wonderfully confirms the message of the following passage from Vatican II (Gaudium & Spes 39.1), which I have chosen on her behalf. It says:

´We do not know when the earth and humanity will be consummated...

nor do we know how the universe will be transformed. 

This world’s present state, deformed by sin, is to pass away. 

But God teaches us, that He is preparing a new dwelling place and a new earth...

where justice dwells...

and whose blessedness will fulfill and surpass all the longings for peace...

which spring up in the human heart. 

Then, when death has been overcome...

God’s children will arise in Christ. 

What was sown as something weak and corrupt...

will be clothed with incorruptibility. 

Charity and its fruits will endure...

and all the creatures that God created...

with human beings in mind... 

will be free of the bondage of futility.´

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