Men of God:
LABORATORIES SECULARITY Mercolledì at the last Cimema AURORA Campodarsego prooiettato was the movie " MEN OF GOD"
A monastery in the mountains aglerine in 1990 ... Eight French Christian monks living in perfect harmony with their Muslim brothers. Gradually, the situation changes. Violence and terror are propapagano fundamentalist in the region. Despite the looming threat that surrounds them, the monks decided to stay in their place, whatever the cost
extraordinary film for the testimony of dialogue with Islam and especially of living faith, despite the doubts and difficulties
Here is the letter of Brother will Chiristian
If I were a day (and may even today) to be a victim of terrorism that now everyone seems to want to involve foreigners living in Algeria, I would like my community, my Church, my family will remember that my life was given to God and this country ... ..
that they accept that the only Lord of all life was not a stranger to this brutal departure. Who pray for me: how could I be found worthy of such an offer? Who could associate this death with so many other equally violent, but forgotten through indifference.
My life is more valuable than another. Nor any less. In any case, it has the innocence of childhood. I have lived long enough to know that I share the evil which seems, alas, to prevail in the world, and also what would strike me blindly.
When the time comes, I wish I had that moment of clarity that would allow me to beg forgiveness of God and that of my fellow human beings, and at the same time to forgive with all my heart who would strike me.
I could not desire such a death. It seems to me important to state. I do not see, in fact, as I rejoice in the fact that people I love were indiscriminately accused of my murder.
would be a price too dear for what, perhaps, be called "grace of martyrdom" to owe it to an Algerian, whoever he is, especially if he says he is acting in fidelity to what he believes to be Islam.
I know the contempt with which it has come to surround the whole can be Algerians. I also know the caricatures of Islam which a certain Islamism encourages. It 's too easy to give oneself a good conscience by identifying this religious way with the fundamentalist ideology of the extremists.
Algeria and Islam, for me, are another matter: they are a body and a soul. L 'I have proclaimed this often enough, I think, based on what I have received, finding there so often the theme of the Gospel, learned on the knees of my mother, my very first Church, in Algeria and, even then, in accordance with the believers Muslims.
Obviously, my death will appear to justify those who hastily judged me naive or idealistic: "Let him tell us now what you think." But they must know that it is finally released my most avid curiosity.
Here I can, if it pleases God, immerse my gaze in that of the Father, to contemplate with him his children of Islam as he sees them, all shining with the glory of Christ, the fruits of his passion, the Gift of the Spirit whose secret joy will always be to establish communion and to refashion the likeness, playing with differences.
For this life lost, totally mine and totally theirs, I thank God who seems to have willed it entirely for that joy, and in spite of everything.
this because when all is said, by now, my life, certainly include you, friends of yesterday and
today, and you, my friends here, along with my mother and my father, my sisters and my brothers, and their, the hundredfold granted as promised!
And you too, man the last minute, you will not have known what you were doing. Yes, you too want to say thanks to God-and this prophylactic with you. And may we meet again, happy thieves in paradise, if it pleases God our Father of both. 
today, and you, my friends here, along with my mother and my father, my sisters and my brothers, and their, the hundredfold granted as promised! Amen! Insc'Allah!
Algiers, December 1, 1993
Tibhrine, January 1, 1994
Christian Brother
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