In this Sunday’s gospel we meet an angry Jesus. Sometimes it can be good to pause with the following questions; what today in our world would make our God of love and compassion angry? Columbia is perhaps just one place on our planet where there is a tremendous amount of unnecessary suffering and hardship. It is one of the world's worst humanitarian ‘hotspots’. More than four decades of conflict have forced about three million people from their homes in the countryside and left thousands more dead or injured. Perhaps the pain of the people living here causes God to feel angry. In response to this suffering, Trócaire is committed to improving life for those caught up in the crossfire, by supplying basic emergency assistance such as food, water and shelter. Trócaire is also helping communities to campaign for their human rights and for peace and is helping them back on their feet with small agricultural and animal projects.
Please help Trócaire continue this lifeline to people in Colombia and around the world. Pick up a Trócaire box and support out Lenten campaign. www.trocaire.org
Castar Íosa feargach orainn i soiscéal na seachtaine seo. Uaireanta is fiú dúinn seasamh siar le roinnt machnaimh a dhéanamh; maidir leis an domhain sa lá atá inniu ann, cad iad na rudaí a chuirfeadh fearg ar Dhia lán ghrá agus atrua? Is í an Cholóim ceann de na háiteanna ar domhain ina bhfuil an t-uafás fulaingt agus cruatan nach bhfuil aon chall leis. Tá sí mar cheann de na láithreacha is measa ar domhain maidir le géarchéim dhaonnúil. I ndiaidh níos mó ná daichead bhliain de choimhlint, tá thart ar trí mhilliún de mhuintir na tuaithe i ndiaidh a tithe a fhágáil agus tá na mílte eile fágtha gortaithe nó marbh. Seans go gcuirfeadh pian muintir na Colóime fearg ar Dhia. Mar fhreagra ar an bhfulaingt seo, tá Trócaire tiomanta i leith saoil na ndaoine atá thíos leis de dheasca na coimhlinte a fheabhsú. Déanfaidh siad seo trí chabhair bhunúsach a chur ar fáil dóibh; bia, uisce agus dídean, mar shampla. Chomh maith leis sin, cabhróidh Trócaire leis na pobail seo feachtais a chur ar bun lena gcearta daonna a éileamh agus síocháin a lorg, agus cabhróidh siad leo le tionscadail bheaga talmhaíochta agus feirmeoireachta a chur ar bun.
Le do thoil, cabhraigh le Trócaire tacaíocht leanúnach a chur ar fáil do mhuintir na Colóime, agus daoine i gcruatan ar fud na cruinne. Faigh bosca Trócaire agus tacaigh len bhfeachtas don Charghas; féach www.trocaire.org
