There is always an element of sadness in celebration. We cannot celebrate without alluding to it, because there are people on this earth of ours who are not celebrating, who are despairing, anguished, starving and mourning. That is why all celebration should end with a silence in which we remember before God all those who cannot celebrate and who are in pain today.(Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 320)
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