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When they arrived, the Chile they discovered was going through the trials of difficult political and social situations, marked above all by the student conflict where thousands of students demonstrated to demand free education of high quality for everyone. At the same time, demands were being made for the family, for non-discrimination, environment, minorities, etc. It is a time of legitimate demands, but also of regrettable violence. But in Chile it is also the month of springtime, of plants and trees blooming, of the rebirth of nature, a season where the streets are filled with colours. The sun makes itself felt more strongly, gathering us bit by bit into its warm embrace. I do not believe that the brothers arrived by chance in that season of contrasts. At this tme of year, I recall something that has always caught my attention, the incredible phenomenon that makes it possible for a single grain, small and simple, to contain a beauty as great as a beautiful flower or a leafy shrub. This comes to mind now, when I see how a few young people, marked by the experience of the pilgrimage of trust, devote themselves to prayer, to contemplation and to listening to the word of God. Several of them are on the front line of the social unrest of these days and they find in prayer rooted in the Gospel a meaning to what they are living, what they are searching for and for their daily needs. Admittedly, these are not enormous meetings, like the ones we like to share, but rather meetings in small groups, like a seed. With God’s help, this seed can become a leafy shrub that welcomes and gives shade to all the many people who today are asking for justice, liberty and for love, or who are trying to find a way that will give them peace of heart. A beautiful sign blooms in silence these days at the central station and on the Pointe de Tralca, and at the “Llegua”, or else in the North and the South of Santiago, recently at Quillota, at Vina des mar, Valparaiso, and in many other places that perhaps we have not yet discovered. There is a great need to give a meaning to all that is happening in Chile and in the life of each one of us. Discretely and simply, this need is linked to the hope of being welcomed by the loving look in the eyes of Jesus Christ. Those who have received this call have received the challenge to collaborate and to take an active part in a true pilgrimage of trust on earth. The brothers will return to Taizé at the beginning of November and they will take with them some of the flowers of this springtime of the heart. We shall follow within this garden, planted in the middle of the struggle and the present circumstances of Chile, but which flowers only with the light of God, God who knows how to love. The God who confirms to us that, as in the words of the song, “The soul filled by love never tires others nor grows tired”.
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Nakon što su stigli u Čile zatekli su tešku političku i socijalnu situaciju koju je najviše obilježio sukob studenata. Tisuće studenata sudjelovalo je u demonstracijama u kojima zahtijevaju besplatno obrazovanje i jednaku kvalitetu za sve. Istovremeno su izneseni zahtjevi za obitelj, protiv diskriminacije, za okoliš, za manjine itd. Riječ je o legitimnim zahtjevima ali, nažalost, također i o nasilju. U Čileu je to također i mjesec proljeća, cvjetanje drveća i drugog bilja, buđenja prirode, to je vrijeme kada su ulice ispunjene bojama. Sunce nas čini jačima i ujedinjuje nas u svom toplom zagrljaju. Ne vjerujem da su braća slučajno stigla u ovom trenutku kontrasta. Ovih se dana prisjećam nečega što je uvijek privlačilo moju pozornost, čudesnog fenomena koji omogućuje jednoj sjemenci, maloj i jednostavnoj, da sadrži ljepotu kao što je predivan cvijet ili gusti grm. Toga se prisjećam sada kada vidim kako se nekolicina mladih koje je dotaknulo Hodočašće povjerenja posvećuje molitvi, kontemplaciji i slušanju riječi Gospodnje. Neki se od njih ovih dana nalaze na prvoj crti socijalnih nemira, a u molitvi usađenoj u Evanđelju nalaze smisao onoga što sada proživljavaju, smisao u onome što traže i u svojoj svakodnevici. Ovo nisu onako veliki susreti poput onih koje rado dijelimo, nego prije svega susreti u malim grupama, poput sjemenja. Uz Božju će pomoć ovo sjemenje postati gusto grmlje koje nas dočekuje i pruža sjenu mnogim mladim ljudima koji danas traže pravdu, slobodu i ljubav, ili onima koji nastoje naći put koji će im dati mir srca. Predivan znak cvjeta u tišini ovih dana na Glavnom kolodvoru, na Punti de Tralca te u četvrtu grada «La Leguai», ili drugačije rečeno , sjeverno i južno od Santiaga, nedavno i u Quilloti, u Vina del Maru, Valparaisu te na mnogim drugim mjestima koje još možda nismo otkrili. Postoji velika potreba da se da smisao svemu što se događa u Čileu i u životu svakoga od nas. Diskretno i jednostavno ova je potreba vezana uz nadu da nas dočeka Kristov pogled ispunjen ljubavlju. Oni koji su primili ovaj poziv primili su izazov da surađuju i tako budu aktivan dio istinskog Hodočašća povjerenja na zemlji. Braća će se u Taizé vratiti početkom studenog, a sa sobom će ponijeti dio cvijeća i proljeća srca. Mi ćemo ih slijediti u ovom vrtu, zasađenom usred borbe i trenutnih događanja u Čileu, ali u vrtu koje cvjeta samo sa svjetlom Božjim, Boga koji zna kako ljubiti. On potvrđuje da, kao u pjesmi, da «duša koja gori s ljubavlju ne umara, niti je umorna.»