Maria at St. Patrick’s Day Parade (圣帕特里克節遊行)，Mar16th, 2025

I hope this talk will be a blessing to Falun Dafa around the world. I believe religion is something that should be honored and cherished. Ever since I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997, I have gained more strength, a deeper understanding of actual Christianity, of all the religions that provide for us and what they provide actually for humankind and how important it is, not just individually, but for the society. And it is very seldom talked about, about the persecution. We are here to celebrate, but there is something that is called the sin of omission. So it is a big sin for societies, a social sin, to actually turn a blind eye to persecuting good people and religions and faith. So we are here joining together with the Irish and all the people of faith to celebrate the religion tradition and the most important tradition, to be strong and be ready for the Creator. Thank you very much. The last question is, have you found some common value between your belief and the Irish in the traditional celebration? In other terms, what is your message to our community? It means your value, your truthfulness, your compassion and tolerance. Please, just in some relevant way. Yes, when I heard in 1999 that John Ziming said in the Communist Congress that truth, compassion and tolerance are not in accordance with the Chinese Communist Party and people who need to be, who practice those values need to be eliminated physically, financially, their occupation needs to be eliminated, I couldn't understand if people, I couldn't understand what it means to eliminate values. My grandmother, every faith, every Catholic faith teaches their children and grandchildren those values, to be kind, to be benevolent and to have compassion. So those are the most important values and I wish all of them to our community and to be united.