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Testament seven freemen

For A., \u200b\u200bJ. and S., co-release

The seven Trappist martyrs of Tibhirine

When an A-God

in sight ... If I should happen one day (and that day might be today)
be a victim of terrorism that seems to cover this
time to all foreigners living in Algeria,
I would like my community, my Church, my family,
remember that my life was GIVEN to God and this country
.

That they accept that the only Master of all life
not a stranger to this brutal departure.

pray for me.

How could I be found worthy of such an offering?
Let them know to associate this death with so many others so violent
and abandoned in the indifference of anonymity.

My life is more valuable than another life.

not have less.



In any case, there is the innocence of childhood.

I lived long enough to know I am an accomplice of evil
it seems, alas, prevail in the world, including
which could blind shots.

wish, eventually, to have that moment of lucidity
allow me to ask God's forgiveness
and that of my fellow men,
and forgiving at the same time, with all my heart, whom I
were wounded.

I could not desire such a death. It seems important
proclaim.

Indeed, I do not see how this could rejoice
people I love to be accused,
regardless of my murder.

would pay dearly for what will be called, perhaps,
the "grace of martyrdom"
debérsela an Algerian, whoever he is, especially if he
says
act in fidelity to what he believes to be Islam.

know the contempt with which it has been surrounding the Algerian
taken together.

I also know the cartoons of Islam promoted by
true Islam.
is too easy to believe in good conscience,

identifying this religious way with their extremist fundamentalism.

Algeria and Islam are nothing to me,
is a body and a soul. I have proclaimed

enough, I think, well aware that
all of them have received,
finding them very often in the thread

gospel I learned on my mother's knee,
my very first Church, precisely
in Algeria and, even then,
in respect of Muslim believers.

My death, obviously, seem to agree with those who have treated me
, lightly, naive or idealistic:
"he says now what you think of this!"
But they need to know to finally be released
stabbing my curiosity.

Then I can, if God wills,
sink my eyes on the Father
to contemplate with him his children of Islam as He sees
entirely illuminated by the glory of Christ,
fruits of his passion, flooded by the gift of the Spirit whose secret joy will
always,
establish communion and to restore the likeness, playing with the differences.

Dom Christian de Chergé † F.
† Luc
p. Dochi Christophe Lebreton
† f. Michel Fleury †
p. Bruno Lemarchand P.
† F.
Ringeard Célestin † Paul Favre-Miville †

For this life lost, totally mine and totally theirs
,

I thank God who seems to have wanted this entirely
JOY, against and in spite of everything.

In this grace in which all is said,
from now on, my life, I
include, of course,
friends of yesterday and today and you,
friends here, with my mother
and my father, my sisters and brothers
and yours,
the hundredfold granted as promised!
And you too, friend of the last moment,
you will not know what you did.

Yes, you too want this THANK YOU,
and this "A-God" in whose face I contemplate.

And we meet again be granted,
happy thieves
in paradise if they want God, Our Father
, yours and mine. AMEN!

Algiers, December 1, 1993
Tibhirine, January 1, 1994
(Open on the Sunday of Pentecost 1996)

Dom Christian de Chergé, OCSO