we don't know those simply needs to be. discovered the old. elite. subscribe to the documentary on you tube. sunday mass in the church of saint theodore no doubt the most unusual parish in the archdiocese of cologne the sanctuary is large and open and culture plays an

integral role. 2 2 2 this catholic church is located in finks one of colognes poorest districts with many social problems but you'd never guess that here father franz moyes has set his heart on bringing together people from diverse social religious and ethnic backgrounds. hospitality openness and diversity a generous atmosphere and mutual respect are the key values in this parish the priests focus is on creating a lively united community. 2 2 2 as close. concert with your christian my own community as fundamental whom we celebrate the. unionised. where 2

or 3 gather in my name there am i with. stores by owns so christ is with us when we accept each other. i'm not in awe they can see the dignity and value of the individual only become visible in the community of mine shaft. father moyer has strong views about what church means. and it's not just celebrating liturgy. underneath the church volunteers are unloading 2nd hand bicycles in the basement. they've collected them from all over town. one of the volunteers is 75 year old mazhar high loon 6 years ago he and his family fled from the war in syria he's found a home away from home in the catholic parish. priest from a christian should be found i lost many things in my home. 2 apartments

a business in office some beautiful all gone but thanks to god my whole family is safe as you good. he's found a new purpose in the community. on several days a week he checks the bikes and repairs those that are broken. it gives him a sense of belonging and of being useful. if you will by thieves. i'm a volunteer nor i didn't know anything about repairing bicycles i mean electrical engineer. i like the priest very much good he's like a father or brother to me. he's helped us a lot but they're feeling a lot for him and not just us and everyone here only lloyd. the bikes are given to anybody who needs one not just members of the parish. father moira insists on that. was like this is why beck has just brought us

a wonderful bike from her grandson he also bring clothes my grandson i grew out of okuma here when i get my own bike repaired and that's a great deal unless i put something in the kitty and i can argue. when you can't afford to give anything that's also. i don't now i throw out this because it isn't just for the with a flourish it's where the role does grind it's an interesting gunton took those reactors that you said you needed to buy 6 years old and the right that's right side ruled that this is not so i will yes he's already found some good morrow to see if it's alright. yeah i've put the 3 year old also gets a home it doesn't mean. he said ok yes of the audio ybor him from togo is a mother of 2 and dependant on welfare and. people are very nice. they do a good job. and i think it's good to help everybody mention the shouldn't ever but

i love her some people don't get enough help from the staying at in money are always things to buy when we can't lease things it really helps us. and i've been living in this district for 3 years and i'm expecting my 1st baby in march we're facing money problems right now so. i came here for a baby carriage you know it's very helpful. when the baby carriage is an expensive idea and then we'll see maybe i'll also get a cart or something from there when a new ones available will see the mission. and we have to be practical to ensure that everybody has a right if you buy a bike today in your car as in section 26 percent of the households here are in serious debt you know how often they're single women again not on this insurance and how much you miss monika children need a proper balance for school we should establish a children's town organize outings but all that is only good when there's

a quality when people aren't looked down upon ish for octu to be. that's the net fashion at st theodore's many people work to make sure those who need help are treated with respect and as equals the children's clothing depot is attractive and well organized renate v.c. askey has been working here for more than 10 years she knows what the mothers need and she gives all of them the same attention. anybody who needs something can come here we don't check who don't ask any questions but if you have 5 children you get 5 sets of bed linen then towels at least 2 towels for each child we give what we have even does we'll see how far out of the sea a ski came here as a child from poland she and her family 1st lived in a reception center. they felt like outsiders and needed the help of others oh

she's never forgotten that experience and she hopes the young mothers as much as she can. but 100 se on the mind i treat them like family i enjoy coming here it's not a strange place it's like home it's going to be now. i. used to write. with hundreds of volunteers and benefactors the parish of st theodore is well known throughout germany people like to help and feel part of a united community and. i'm. just going to i'm pleased that things can be used that somebody still needs them and they don't land on the trash and. species that all dirty as important thing in supporting each other to. father my community is the essence of christianity. and he would've gone to heaven by praying the rosary.

if i was poor and homeless for i was hungry and thirsty i was in prison i wanted to die and what did you do solidarity is essential at the experience that we all depend on each other on. the show that his family knows what community spirit means their farm in north rhine-westphalia has been in the family for 400 years conventional farming alone no longer pace so the family have set up an agricultural educational center. groups of children come here from spring until autumn for many it's their 1st experience of raising animals and crops. and so you can see it happens that when people ask why an educational farm is necessary we like to tell the story of the child who was asked when lookouts produce milk he said when there is none left in the supermarket and we create

a space in which children can learn real things that make sense and. the experience is new for the children they can learn with their senses how plants and animals grow and what becomes of them. we always work as a team and children like to do things by themselves that's easy and it's her job but also better to do things together that's what we try to teach the children one can answer from. they come from 8 different countries but social and cultural differences are irrelevant here the children or interact easily popping out of an old one not sure what catalog close. it was and. if i may hear what are the words potato how many to you. and me just

yet when i plant them like this one who can tell me the mistake i've made i don't wrong way around when i plant them like this you know you must bury them i must bury them how do you like this you know very deep can i say i'll tell you the whole must be as deep as the spade is long because a potato must be very twice as deep in the soil as it is long so we dig a hole and look. that's deep enough don't you think. a little bit more. are we doing this sort of potato plants grow on the backs of you yeah that's good. and each child learns something different each one comes with different needs so we reach out to them accordingly mistaken the farm experience is about much more than learning how to plant potatoes it's about discovering strengths developing courage observing listening letting others take over and self control. developing

a sense of fairness and respect. the cutoff. point the month actually we need 2 people for this project noids. farmer l. marshall that explains how to plant potatoes. on the farm workers are a group committed to practicing community supported agriculture. basically community supported agriculture is the cooperation of the food producers and consumers. direct. market one of you know supermarket no health food store no wholesaler if you like to have been just a direct link between producer and consumer give us foreign input sick of people look to me. for all the consumers take over the financing usually for one year and receive the complete crop which they then share

out among themselves the populations of. the consumers pay a monthly subscription of around $75.00 euros and receive organically produced vegetables they have a say in what's planted and can work on the farm if they want to this is unfair and it's just all much more direct fumio and you appreciate you actually working out. and because i have to. frankly i didn't think people would want to get involved it's still oppresses me. the feeling that you can make a difference do something on this i think that's very important this is going to this these people shifty going with dean getting involved with the basic necessities food. that's what we're doing here has a direct use direct current as well and that makes it very interesting.

the idea has international approval. you next go has commended the educational farm as a model of sustainable development. you know that's not in any other. commitment is also found in the careful handling of state of the art technologies construction of a new production plant for prior one a prospering high tech company responsibility for the environment and the common good are central to the entrepreneurs. time we plan to build and run data centers for our clients we build the shell we lay on electricity schooling and provide the security technology a home for i.t. your actions and data centers are extremely energy intensive so it's especially important that we make headway. i mean if we convince only one

client per year for instance to construct a cooling in their data center so it has a relatively small carbon footprint they have the potential energy savings that i couldn't achieve with my whole family and a lifetime shelf. businesses like ours have a duty to take the lead not to wait for the politicians because there's a lot to do. in the good news in the concept of a social economy we found a concept that helps us to apply sustainability across the board in our business market. it helps us to make sustainable choices that have the project grew out of the 2008 economic crisis the aim was to put people and the environment to be for maximizing profits. the common good economy is a business model based on values in trying to nearly every constitution and oriented businesses success is measured by its contribution to the common good.

the criteria are human dignity solitary injustice ecological sustainability and shared responsibility richard. money is often the driving factor in business but today we see that the deeper meaning is to benefit society money is just the means to achieve that goal in other words the question of meaning and purpose has changed a lot. and ethical market economy is the long term goal if economics doesn't sustain life it's meaningless that's the view of the 400 businesses that have committed to this economic model what's question about this company is the people who work here say god irrespective of who's here they are what they do they're valued and treated with respect. is. back on the show farm in north rhine-westphalia fridays are crop picking

day. even if you look like up and it was actually i'm an electrician i retrained and i wanted to do something meaningful i said to myself organic farming is something meaningful. so we work independently and for the most part. the harvest has to be in by friday afternoon but nobody orders us about that it's pleasurable work i enjoy it. it's. just it's 1st of all everything is. for a shop or for the market you might pick by crates of lettuce so that's what you sell 3 the other 2 you have to throw away at the weekend we don't have that problem everything is used. actually it's already sold everything we harvest is taken

that's good those are some of the. that's the knowledge you've got to appreciate your work they pay a lot of money each month they sometimes also help out with a farming and they say that's great what you're doing you're not. thank. the vegetables are ready to be collected the entire crop is divided up among the subscribers the consumers themselves weigh the produce and collect their share. yes financier shoes i think it's great that all generations help the solidarity principle is very important. for us i pay my subscription regularly and commit to collect in the vegetables. no risk is shared by everybody a financial times are tight. god you can mine shaft. one for all and also

one i taste better than the food in the supermarket was marked out for us the cucumber tastes quite different location it comes like neal cucumber the radishes taste like radishes these have to make you. 25 it's a lot. you have to cook a lot. but i will give some away. if a line of kind i can't do much on my own to change the larger political picture of a few mine but i can make a small contribution and batter lyston the minds of working together taking a break and swapping recipes and eating except i was tower she warns of everyone bring something to eat and we share it and i think it's wonderful it's been a process should.

an international network of community support. and agriculture has developed. some of the communities have as many as a 1000 or more members others are small and then spectacular. and spectacular but vital is also the support given in end of life care. while the young maria i thought she would piece of cake. rhubarb pie from the

bakery. would you like some. then we'll move that so you can see the consequent doesn't turn out is kind of a little piece ok comes is also right. that i'm not we have more to choose from enjoy it it. is nearly $99.00 and bedridden and she's spending her final days at home cared for by her daughter and the mobile hospice service or delia i think it's like she's receiving morphine for the breast cancer that has now spread to her skin. i rather panicked at 1st happy from disempower i didn't know whether she would die quickly. what was. she doesn't have the strength to leave her room any more. than all the time. but she manages to get lots of stimulus from outside the world comes to her.

we enjoy every day. the hospice service sees to that. we are what they are even if maria is physically weak she still treated with the respect she enjoyed when she was younger almost. here yeah. i'm her may i visit you again. i don't need anything. so in here me i sit down yes you may. i mean i've brought you a little something a surprise of close your eyes and guess what it is. nice and recognize the smell is lavender exactly wonderful mommy of how are you today maria. i'm ok that's good

so you're looking good. because we have to take the path we recognize. it's not always easy. to be truly human i need somebody you can ask for me kind and no child can grow up without somebody caring for them mention. birth and death of a coolness standards of our life on earth as. the simple things life we're developing actually we're always dying little debbie just . being surrounded by people who love and care for you makes dying easier. so it'll be a while yet. little while right i know so i try to if anybody

has time that's you. know. they're told phone used to live next door and knows the old lady well they often communicate without words a solid relationship one of trust they aren't shy of each other. ok. look you have a really lovely scamp. remember that each person by your side could be a gift of grace. so this is the last thing i'm able to do is lie here and wait. i don't know how to do that.

i also don't know if i'll make it to heaven wait and see so. back in cologne thinks a long line has formed outside st theodorus church food is distributed here every tuesday during the cold virus pandemic special precautions are necessary while giving ordering up a tent outside yes we're constructing a pavilion where we can receive the trucks and documents. i wished i was on that i must say i'm very proud of you i'm never here on tuesdays there are other things to be done. and you always have a nice cup of coffee to. go. with

the help of hundreds of volunteers father franz has created a network that reaches far beyond the boundaries of his parish open to everybody. it doesn't only provide practical help but a feeling of solidarity and belonging irrespective of social or religious affiliation. if. the question is can a modern person also be a christian. this applies to all religions. or do i have to divide myself. then religion leads to schizophrenia. for maybe more maybe in reality i'm a mother or father a worker or whatever in my religion is like a hobby. and i'm also

a christian even. know true christianity shapes your life in all its aspects. one thing unites the different visions of a future with more community and solidarity. they show what is possible if it is simply gather.

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