1、此资料由网络收集而来，如有侵权请告知上传者立即删除。资料共分享，我们负责传递知识。美国总统在白宫复活节祈祷早餐会英语演讲稿Good morning, everybody. (Applause.) Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Please,please have a seat. Thank you so much. Well, good morning, everybody.Welcome to the White House andwelcome to our annual Easter prayer breakfast. As alw
2、ays,we are blessed to be joined by so many good friends fromaround the country. We'vegotdistinguished guests. We've got faithleaders, members of my administration who are here.And I will once again resist the temptationto preach to preachers. (Laughter.) It never worksout well. I am reminded
3、 of the admonition from the Bookof Romans - “Do not claim to bewiser than you are. (Laughter.) So this morning, I want to offer some very brief reflections aswe startthis Easter season.But as I was preparing myremarks, something intervened yesterday. And so I want to justdevote a few words about yes
4、terday's tragedy inKansas. This morning our prayers are withthepeople of Overland Park. And we'restill learning the details, but this much we know. A gunmanopened fire at two Jewish facilities- a community center and a retirement home. Innocentpeople were killed. Their families were devastat
5、ed. And this violence has struck the heart ofthe Jewish community in KansasCity.Two of the victims - agrandfather and his teenage grand son - attended the UnitedMethodist Churchof the Resurrection, which is led by our friend Reverend Adam Hamilton.Some of you may know that during myinauguration, Rev
6、erend Hamilton delivered the sermonat the prayer service atthe National Cathedral. And I wasgrateful for his presence and hiswords. He joined us at our breakfast last year. And at the Easter service for Palm Sunday lastnight, he had to breakthis terrible news to his congregation.That this occurred n
7、ow - as Jewswere preparing to celebrate Passover, as Christians wereobserving Palm Sunday-makes this tragedy all the more painful. And today, as Passoverbegins, we're seeing a number of synagogues andJewish community centers take addedsecurity precautions. Nobody should have to worry about their
8、security when gathering withtheir fellow believers. No one should ever have to fear for theirsafety when they go to pray.And as a government, we're goingto provide whatever assistance is needed to support theinvestigation. As Americans, we not only need to open ourhearts to the families of the v
9、ictims,we've got to stand united against thiskind of terrible violence, which has no place in oursociety. And we have to keep coming together acrossfaiths to combat the ignorance andintolerance, including anti-Semitism thatcan lead to hatred and to violence, because we'reall children of God.
10、 We're all made in His image, all worthy ofhis love and dignity. And we seewhathappens around the world when this kind of religious-based or tinged violencecan rear itsugly head. It's got no placein our society.So this Easter Week, of course werecognize that there's a lot of pain and a l
11、ot of sin and alot of tragedy inthis world, but we're also overwhelmed by the grace of an awesome God. We'rereminded how He loves us, so deeply,that He gave his only begotten Son so that we might livethrough Him. And in these Holy Days, we recall all thatJesus endured for us - the scorn of t
12、hecrowds and the pain of thecrucifixion, in our Christian religious tradition we celebrate theglory of theResurrection - all so that we might be forgiven of our sins and grantedeverlastinglife.And more than 2,000 years later,it inspires us still. We are drawn toHis timeless teachings,challenged to b
13、e worthy of His sacrifice, to emulate asbest we can His eternal example tolove one another just as He loves us. And of course, we're always reminded each andevery daythat we fall short of that example. And none of us are free from sin, but we look to His life andstrive,knowing that “if we love o
14、ne another, God lives in us, and His love isperfected in us.I'll tell you, I felt this spiritwhen I had the great honor of meeting His Holiness, PopeFrancis,recently. I think it's fair to say thatthose of us of the Christian faith, regardless of ourdenomination, have beentouched and moved by
15、 Pope Francis. Now,some of it is his words -his message of justice and inclusion, especially forthe poor and the outcast. He implores ustosee the inherent dignity in each human being. But it's also his deeds, simple yet profound-hugging the homeless man, and washing the feet of somebody who norm
16、allyordinary folkswould just pass by on the street. He reminds us that all of us, no matter whatour station, havean obligation to live righteously, and that we all have anobligation to live humbly.Becausethat's, in fact, the example that we profess to follow.So I had a wonderful conversationwith Pope Francis, mostly about the imperatives ofaddressing poverty andinequality. And I invited him to come tothe United States, and Isincerely hope he wil
