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When evening came,
the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman,
“Call the workers and pay them their wages,
beginning with the last ones hired
and going on to the first”.
(Mt 20, 8)

Another year we are getting close to the last ones at Lent. It is to them that we will dedicate these coming forty days, while we are walking towards the Cross and towards the Easter Glory, through this time of conversion and acceptance of our sins, through this time of feeling and practising compassion. It is also a time to think about the real situation of our society and to do something about the structures of injustice, oppression and sin, in which many human beings are living, especially the poorest ones.

It is with this spirit that we approach the people who live in the most underdeveloped countries, the forty countries with the least HDI (Human Development Index), according to the annual report of development from the NATO.

In this way we expect:

To show and to improve our sensitivity towards those considered to be the last ones in everything : the last in the society, the last in the classroom, the last in the neighbourhood. Nevertheless, they are God favourite people, and also our favourite ones, just because they are not the best, but the last ones.

To listen to what the people from those countries tell us in their letters this year. To read what they want to tell us without being prejudiced, trying to understand why they are telling us those things.

To better know the real situation in which people live in those countries and to be aware of our reality and our values, by contrast. To wonder about what has caused those situations, and think about their possible solutions.

To let us be enlightened by the Word of God. He has something to tell us, as well. His Word makes us pray, and in our prayer we present to Him the lives of the people considered to be the last ones. We also thank him for the people who work to help them, and we ask Him to forgive us for our sins. Finally we pray God to grant us the grace of being available and generous.