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Reverend Hamish Currie at the Inauguration of the Precious Blood Cathedral Journey Project in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Tuesday, August 15, 2017. (BRIAN KELLY / STAR SAULT / POSTMEDIA NETWORK)
Bells of Peace gives Reverend Hamish Currie a welcome opportunity to show his support for a just world and peace.
The pastor of Precious Blood Cathedral is joined to several other churches in Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma District for Bells of Peace Sunday afternoon. The Royal Canadian Legion project has called places of worship across Canada to ring their bells at sunset.
"Never again "was" heard loud and clear "at the end of the First World War," but we have seen the war and the violence continue to this day, "Currie said in an email. think it is imperative that each of us take up this motto on a daily basis, committing ourselves to creating communities of peace and including everyone. Peace is not peace if this Is peace for all Freedom is not freedom if it is freedom for all. "
A vigil organized on November 1 in the Beth-Jacob synagogue for victims of a mbad shootings in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, synagogue, "poignantly recalled that we are all in the same boat, that all groups Religious aspire for peace and we all suffer when we suffer, "said the Catholic priest.
He invited other clergy, in churches without bells, to join him at Sault Ste. The oldest Catholic church of Mary for the late afternoon ceremony which rang 100 times the bell of the parish.
Currie's father, grandfather and great-grandfather served in the British Army. Her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, along with other women of these three generations, "have essentially kept their families together as single parents, living overnight, devoured by fear. or hope while they were challenged with meager resources. as working in various jobs for the war effort.
"Families have been separated with husbands and wives, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters serving in various theaters, "said Currie. "Families have been fractured by years of separation, families have struggled to become families again after the war. The effects of war are living with us to this day. "
It is important, he adds, that "the sacrifice of women and men in the search for peace is not forgotten".
The Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Sault, St. Savior's Anglican Church in Blind River and the Redeemer Church in Thessalon also participated in Bells of Peace.
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