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The violence of the shadows

Source: by Mamerto Menapace, published in the salt of the earth, Editorial Patria Grande.

Blessed are those who are persecuted
the sake of righteousness
because they belong
the kingdom of heaven

God had given her a beautiful heart. Was capable of loving and passionate. Had the capacity to see. His eyes always looked at things, and had no trouble with my eyes vibrate. That is why injustice shook him hard. Many will have confidence because I knew a blissfully and violent.

Above it was rather naive. He liked to talk, show and express what they had inside. Tues things that made ​​him inconsistent, and many believed it was inconsistent. Others thought they could use it, and when he just continued his course, did not understand.

Soul child, looking forward to the truth, and I wanted at all costs to do justice. Bringing justice to the practice was for him an obsession. Maybe there was something biological that hunger for justice. That is why so complete when I saw committed in any place or person, the reality of l commitment to justice. But since justice is a reality pulled by various factions who believe possess the exclusive (as they fight the dogs for Ashura), it happened more than once the desire to jerk from different directions. Barked from all sides to encourage him, and everywhere he released his bite. And he just kept on, passionate about bringing justice to the practice. Perhaps no plan, no project, as guided by an instinct. I loved the part of justice that was in every man, and tried to shake off the shame in each group.

And that is dangerous. It is dangerous to stand in full light when the shadows are on the loose. And in every engagement in each entity there is really a clash of light and darkness, between fear and shame. And it is dangerous for a man to love the light in everything, and everything the night trying to overcome by shame.

So the fear that exists in every one of us began to chase him. In secret, of course. Fear tends to be cowardly, and prefer not to show his face exposed. Hence, the day he was killed, nobody would be responsible for the event. We we blame each other, and even the best thought to be honest.

No matter what name they killed him, and the full name of who has died. He was killed by the violence of the shadows, and his name is written in the book of life. A nation mourned him in silence. That people who also loves justice, and like all those persecuted for bringing justice to the practice, will inherit the kingdom of heaven.

Because the death of a man to do justice, he was active in the ultimate victory of light over darkness. Light that man ends in darkness. And so he opened the doors of the Kingdom of light.

Happy to you when they are persecuted and insulted, they say all kinds of false things about you. Be happy, do not be sad, because they will receive a great reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you (Mt 5, 11-12).

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