president's message

WE’RE ALL DIFFERENT, THANKS GOD, BECAUSE IN THIS WAY WE CAN PARTICIPATE IN HIS PROJECT.

It's good to know that the MAN DIGNITY begins on the capacity to respect one on one, the entire HUMANITY, with all its differences, values, qualities and defects, and likewise is built a PEOPLE'S DIGNITY which also starts for the same base values, and, for them to exist and live in PEACE as an independent COUNTRY, must necessarily accept and respect with dignity the other people, just like they are, how different they may be!

It's curious, or maybe not, but the WORLD is constantly plunged into confusion, sometimes make us believing that’s due to interreligious misunderstanding, sometimes due to political incompatibility, but nobody dares to tell to the people that the confusion basis, that leads to discord, is essentially the ignorance and lack of CIVIC AND MORAL VALUES.

Well, I can’t believe that any religious people, understood and healthy people, can justify a religious war, just like a good sportsman can’t justify disorders, because whether he wins or loses, if he’s really discerning and wise, comments, agrees or disagrees, but he doesn’t involve himself in wars of any kind; so, if all sports enthusiasts were knowledgeable there would be no hooligan groups, and if all religious people were properly educated, within the precepts that their religion gives them, there would be nor the soi-disant religion wars.

Therefore, I feel that I must call to responsibility all of those who are qualified to teach, to teach without formatting, leaving the freedom of choice, like God does with us.

However, I take this opportunity to emphasize that, as better as the Teacher can be, if the students don’t have the desire to learn, he little or nothing can do but to use all his talents to encourage them.

Considering that the religions and philosophies basis are more or less consensual, and even the BUDDHIST philosophy itself has as basic values the respect, the understanding and the tolerance, to which the CATHOLIC religion added an invaluable value that's the LOVE sense and the FORGIVENESS strength, which together allow the SOUL healing THAT GIVES PEACE TO HEART.

Believe, if many people who suffer, and that make others suffer, had the courage to try the sweetness of LOVE and the strength of FORGIVENESS, they had no longer "go to the witch" and less often to the doctor!

António Lourenço Tavares