In the 47th World Day of Peace, the Theme chosen by our Pope Francis was, "Fraternity, the foundation and pathway to peace”, and he wanted this to be the focus of its celebration.
How is harmony scattered?
I would say, it's HOME where peace starts fist gets damaged. During
childhood the parents take intense care of their children. They want
their child to the best among everything and they are even ready to give
their child the best things they could ever give. Through out infancy,
the kid's world is its parents. When it crosses this stage its attention
gets diverted towards its friends and a small gap starts growing
between his/her and the parents. When they attain the adolescence stage,
where beauty, money and strength becomes their primary attention. Now
their parents will become old and incompetent before their perception.
On the other hand, through our childhood their siblings were their one
and sole clique solace. Once they grow up they start inculcating
jealousy, ego, self-pride and selfishness. This on a long run makes the
gap between more wider and wider and ends up in delusions, liquidation
of family businesses, separation of family properties. When seen at a
higher phase, causes scrimmages and even blood for blood situations.
So now tell me, where do we sow the seeds for alienation? Yes it is at
our home, within our kinship. At many instances we even see old parents
live as if the whole blue sky as their roofs. It has become a normal
erudition of sending old parents to the old-aged homes as orphans. At
times they are even shut in dark & unclean attics. There are given
worn our food and clothes. People never visualize that the same
treatment may get retreated to them from their own children.
Please note that none of the doctrines support ill-treatments of parents
by their children. Rather they manifest the inflictions for those who
ill treat their parents. It's clearly said, "Do
we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal
treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of
our fathers?" - Malachi 2:10.
Without Fraternity, nothing in this universe can stay stable. There is a real need to combat the 'throwaway culture' and instead has promoted a 'culture of confrontation', in order to build a more just and peaceful world.
“Fraternity
is a dowry that every man and every woman brings with himself or
herself as a human being, as a child of the one Father,” the communique
states. “In the face of the many tragedies that afflict the family of
nations - poverty, hunger, underdevelopment, conflicts, migrations,
pollution, inequalities, injustice, organized crime, fundamentalism -
fraternity is the foundation and the pathway to peace.”
