{"id":793427,"date":"2022-11-29T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T08:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/3-decembre-journee-internationale-des-personnes-handicapees\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:48:09","slug":"3rd-december-international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/en\/3rd-december-international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>3<\/strong><sup><strong>rd<\/strong><\/sup><strong> December: International Day of Persons with Disabilities<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"793427\" class=\"elementor elementor-793427 elementor-793301\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4d20c7fc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4d20c7fc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-72251da4\" data-id=\"72251da4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e1c5175 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e1c5175\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201c<strong>As we celebrate your International Day, I would like to speak directly to all of you who live with any condition of disability, to tell you that the Church loves you and needs each of you for the fulfilment of her mission at the service of the Gospel.\u201d<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/pont-messages\/2021\/documents\/papa-francesco_20211120_messaggio-disabilita.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Francis during his message on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities<\/a>) <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22e39e2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22e39e2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In order to promote integration and access to economic, social and political life for people with disabilities, in 1992 the United Nations proclaimed an International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3rd December.<br \/>This world day is also the ideal opportunity to reaffirm certain basic principles, too often forgotten: \u201c<strong>All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights\u201d<\/strong>. Respect for this dignity due to each person, able-bodied or not, implies the recognition of fundamental rights such as education or access to work.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f35d5e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3f35d5e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lourdes and disability<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-5ca7139 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5ca7139\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-87cd92a\" data-id=\"87cd92a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-227e6b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"227e6b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>In Lourdes, the sick and those with disabilities have always come first from the very start of the miracles, because the sick came \u201c<em>to drink at the spring and wash themselves there.<\/em>\u201d<\/h5><h5><br \/>The OCH (Christian Office for People with Disabilities) within the Sanctuary, has a reception centre &#8220;<em>where everyone finds a listening ear, compassion, and support, with a little light of hope to continue their journey&#8230;<\/em>&#8220;. The people who are there to listen at the OCH are a gift from God. Because all the volunteers draw from deep within their souls this jewel that is their attention which they offer to the people who are welcomed there.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-f78af92\" data-id=\"f78af92\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9abc42c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9abc42c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/22_OCH-juillet-17-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-793319\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/22_OCH-juillet-17-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/22_OCH-juillet-17-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/22_OCH-juillet-17-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/22_OCH-juillet-17-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/22_OCH-juillet-17-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74e01e83 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74e01e83\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Enrique Alarc\u00f3n<\/strong>, general director of FRATER ESPA\u00d1A and member of the secular apostolate of the diocese of Albacete (one of the people invited by the Pope to work on the Synod as a disabled person), during the congress of Spanish hospitality in Albacete (20th \u2013 23rd October, 2022), appealing to all those who wish to serve the sick and disabled, when he said to the Hospitallers present at the meeting, \u201c<em>You, Hospitallers with your faith, you can give people with an illness or disability a chance. And in doing so, you give life to these sick people \u201cwho cannot move\u201d, so that they have the opportunity to regain physical health but above all holistic health. You have a great responsibility<\/em>!\u201d<br \/>At the same time, he warned them against paternalism. \u201c<em>Be careful! When we look at sick or disabled people, we often fall into the trap of only seeing what they lack according to our own criteria&#8230; And this means we often forget the people themselves! They are deprived of an active participation in their own rehabilitation and liberation. They become the object, not the subject wit<\/em>h whom we must work cooperatively.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7d0fbd5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7d0fbd5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8b51542\" data-id=\"8b51542\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2691603 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2691603\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Recteur-Enrique-1024x462.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-793325\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Recteur-Enrique-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Recteur-Enrique-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Recteur-Enrique-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Recteur-Enrique-1536x692.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Recteur-Enrique.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Enrique Alarc\u00f3n (bottom right in the photo) during the Spanish Hospitality Congress in Albacete in October 2022. The Rector of the Shrine (top of the photo) started the winter congresses with his presence in Albacete.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1b813ed0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1b813ed0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3af72a02\" data-id=\"3af72a02\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f62e652 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6f62e652\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cThe Church is our home\u201d<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3fb6897 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3fb6897\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>People with disabilities form one of the most vulnerable groups in the world today. In November 2017, the World Health Organisation published some key facts to promote an understanding of their reality and a move towards their full inclusion. In the world, more than 1 billion people live with some form of physical, organic, sensory, cognitive (intellectual) or mental disability. They <strong>represent about 15% of the world&#8217;s population<\/strong>.<\/p><p>\u201c<strong>Baptism makes each one of us a full-fledged member of the Church community, so that all of us, without exclusion or discrimination, can say, \u201cI am Church!\u201d The Church is truly your home! We, all of us together, are Church because Jesus chose to be our friend. The Church \u2013 and this is something we need to learn more and more in the synodal process we have begun \u2013 \u201cis not a community of people who are perfect, but a community of disciples on a journey, who follow the Lord because they know they are sinners <\/strong>and in need of his forgiveness\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/audiences\/2016\/documents\/papa-francesco_20160413_udienza-generale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catechesis<\/a>, 13th April 2016). (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/pont-messages\/2021\/documents\/papa-francesco_20211120_messaggio-disabilita.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Francis during his message on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities<\/a>)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c0e6cf3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c0e6cf3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-824b5f5\" data-id=\"824b5f5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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class=\"eicon-chevron-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Next slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2e0478d6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2e0478d6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4ffbd033\" data-id=\"4ffbd033\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7dab571b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7dab571b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">DISABILITY IN THE SYNOD<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74abd223 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74abd223\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Last May, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laityfamilylife.va\/content\/laityfamilylife\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life<\/a>, in agreement with the General Secretariat of the Synod, invited some of the disabled faithful to participate actively in the synodal journey by contributing through an open dialogue with the Holy See. These people were from across the five continents, representing episcopal conferences and international associations, many of whom had already taken part in synodal consultations with their dioceses. On Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laityfamilylife.va\/content\/laityfamilylife\/en\/news\/2022\/il-contributo-delle-persone-con-disabilita-al-sinodo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21st September, people with disabilities, who had gathered in Rome, met with Pope Francis<\/a> to present him with some of the fruits of their labour over the previous months.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eda304d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"eda304d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6b17c12\" data-id=\"6b17c12\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-dab03ce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dab03ce\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-25bfa75\" data-id=\"25bfa75\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68c94e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68c94e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>In the Gospel of the healing of the paralytic (2:1-28), Saint Mark tells us that, \u201c<em>Jesus seeing the faith<\/em>\u201d of the four people who accompanied the sick person&#8230;forgave him his sins and it was only afterwards that He restored him to health&#8230;<\/h5><h4><br \/>We pray that here in Lourdes, seeing the faith of all those who accompany the sick and disabled, Christ Jesus can work wonders in us. 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