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A Good Will Reflection taken from the book "A Esperança não morre nunca" [Hope Never Dies] from April 2020.

I have always tried to respect and to learn from the invaluable experience of the elderly. Therefore, I also tell the younger never to discard the efforts of those who preceded them while keeping their innovative spirit. Without them, we would not have reached—despite all obstacles—the singular level of modernity, at times unbalanced, in our world (see the pollution that makes inattentive crowds sick). However, let us enrich the partnership between people of all ages for the Good, without forgetting that the existence and action of the Spiritual World are unquestionable. And what is more: that the perfect connection with the Celestial Spheres is essential and is established through the prayer enlightened by Fraternal Love—since “God is Love” (First Epistle of John 4:8), never hatred—and through the dignified actions that correspond to that connection with our Guardian Angels. Without that, the constant progress that is seen from generation to generation will be limited and filled with painstaking dramas from the frustrations that the materially-centered development will cause.

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It is urgent, then, to understand that above all we are Spirit. That explains why the statement by Jesus that follows is no vain poetry, but reality that must, for both collective and personal good, be fostered as the permanent flame in our journey: “I am the vine; you are the branches. . . . Apart from me you can do nothing.” (The Gospel according to John, 15:5)

Tela: Mathieu Ignace Van Brée (1773-1839)

I again address those who have reached the age of 60 and above. And I fraternally emphasize that you should never retire from life. Quite the opposite, act as wise, open-minded elderly, with an idealistic vitality to make healthy and brave youngsters envious in a good way.

José de Paiva Netto (1941-2025), a writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, educator, composer, poet, the President Emeritus and Consolidator of the Legion of Good Will, and Spiritual Leader of the Religion of God, of the Christ, and of the Holy Spirit. He was an effective member of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) and the Brazilian International Press Association (ABI-Inter), a member of the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Union of Professional Journalists of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Writers of Rio de Janeiro, the Radio Broadcasters Union of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Union of Composers (UBC), and the Academy of Letters of Central Brazil. He became an internationally recognized author in the defense of human rights and in his concepts of Ecumenical Citizenship and Ecumenical Spirituality, which, in his own words, represent “the cradle of the most generous values that are born of the Soul, the dwelling of emotions and of reasoning enlightened by intuition; the atmosphere that embraces everything that transcends the ordinary field of matter and comes from elevated human sensitivity, such as Truth, Justice, Mercy, Ethics, Honesty, Generosity, and Fraternal Love. In short, the mathematical constant that harmonizes the equation of spiritual, moral, mental, and human existence. Now, without the understanding that we exist on two planes―not only on the physical plane―it will be difficult to build a Society that is truly Ecumenical, Altruistic, and Solidary, since we would still be ignoring that the knowledge of Superior Spirituality elevates the character of creatures and, consequently, leads to the construction of the Planetary Citizenship.”