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Mark Riedemann for “Where God Weeps” in cooperation with Aid to the Church in Need interviews Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai in India.
Q: Your Eminence, on your coat of arms you have the scales of justice for your legal studies, the washing of feet for service and” M” for Mary, but you also have a hand shake on your emblem. Why the handshake?
Cardinal Gracias: It is the symbol of reconciliation. And I put as my motto also, “To Reconcile All Things In Christ.” I always had a deep feeling of wanting to be a bridge builder, of wanting to bring people together in conflict situations, in difficult situations. It was a natural feeling the Lord put in my heart of wanting peace in communities even in small issues. As a seminarian, as a priest, I always tried to do that. As a matter fact, when I was asking my friends “what should I put?”, the first thing suggested was reconciliation.
Read the rest of the interview here.
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