EDITORIAL

We are living in a difficult time. The tragic images from New York are the icon of a tragedy that has wounded the American People (it was also hit in Washington) and also the whole world.
This first Newsletter is issued shortly after this event that has left the world stunned, terrified by so much violence and concerned for the future.

The memory of the International Meeting �On the frontiers of Dialogue� that was held in Barcelona from the 2nd to the 4th of September encourages us, while we look at the future.
The days in Barcelona, in the framework of a great participation at all levels, where days of dense dialogue in harmony and sincerity. The religious and lay participants expressed, in their diversity a unanimous message of trust in dialogue or at least their commitment to exercise endless efforts to continue to dialogue, to talk, to meet.

In a world that is complex and pluralistic the way of dialogue is the main one to realize the art of coexistence. This is also why the Newsletter wants to be an instrument of dialogue in the framework of the numerous and different ways of dialogue and debate promoted by the Community of Sant�Egidio. We offer it in this very spirit and, while our thought goes to the future with hope and prayer, we are also concerned for the balance of the world after these days that left different from how it was.

09/21/01 - Matera (Italy) - The Freedom of the City to the Community of Sant'Egidio

09/20/01 - Rome - Press Conference on the Condition of the Elderly

09/20/01 - Genoa - In the Cathedral a commemorative plate of the Meeting "Chiese Sorelle, Popoli Fratelli" .

09/19/01 - Corriere della Sera - Interview to Andrea Riccardi after the Terrorist Attacks in the USA.

09/19/01 - Etchmiadzin (Armenia) - A delegation of the Community at the Celebrations for the Anniversary of the Evangelisation of Armenia

09/18/01 - Sarajevo (Bosnia) - A Meeting on Dialogue between Christian Churches and Islam

09/16/01 - Rome - The preaching of card. W.Kasper in Santa Maria in Trastevere

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september 30, Sunday: Liturgy of the Sunday
Thanksgiving for the day of the Lord. Memory of Saint Jerome, doctor of the Church, who died in Bethlehem in 420. He translated the scripture into Latin. Prayer that the voice of the Gospel be heard in every language.

october 1, Monday: Memory of the Poor
Memory of Saint Teresa de Lisieux, a Carmelite nun, poor in spirit, inspired by a deep sense of the Church�s mission. We remember all those who live in difficulty and suffering for the mission of the Gospel.

october 2, Tuesday: Memory of the Mother of the Lord
Today marks the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). A harvest feast in which Israel sees in God the origin of all the good things of the earth, remembers the passage in the desert and the gift of the Torah (the Law).

october 3, Wednesday: Memory of the Church

october 4, Thursday: Memory of the Saints and the Prophets
Feast day of St. Francis, a witness to the Gospel, and a man of peace and dialogue. We pray for the Church in Italy and all the Italian communities. Today we remember the foundation of the chapel of Primavalle, the first place of prayer of the Community in the outskirts of Rome. In 1992, in Rome, we saw the signing of the agreement that put an end to the war in Mozambique. We thank the Lord because he guides men in the way of peace, also when they cannot find it through strength. We pray that the peace in Mozambique will be strengthened and that hunger and violence will end.

october 5, Friday: Memory of Jesus crucified

october 6, Saturday: Sunday Vigil

october 7, Sunday: Liturgy of the Sunday
Thanksgiving for the day of the Lord.

october 8, Monday: Memory of the Poor

october 9, Tuesday: Memory of the Saints and the Prophets
Feast of Abraham, patriarch. In faith he headed for a land he did not know. For this faith he is the father of Christian, Muslim and Hebrew believers. Today is also the feast of Yom Kippur, day of atonement.

october 10, Wednesday: Memory of the Mother of the Lord

october 11, Thursday: Memory of the Church

october 12, Friday: Memory of Jesus crucified

october 13, Saturday: Sunday Vigil

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