Tell us how you work to stay married, how your family has overcome obstacles, how you have made time for each other, sought enrichment opportunities or professional help with your problems. Share with us how you have come to understand your vocation as a spouse or parent.
Speak to us of your pain over broken promises and relationships. Give witness to your belief in God's mercy as you move toward reconciliation both with your family and with the Church. Help us to appreciate the symbols and traditions with which you celebrate and worship. Let us glimpse how you are trying to live a more simple lifestyle, serve the needy, build justice and peace in your community. Tell us what kinds of support you expect from the larger Church.
In The International Year of the Family Catholic News Service will provide a forum, through its syndicated "Faith Alive" series, for families to tell their stories. Your words and deeds will lend strength to our exhortations. Our Pledge At other times we have urged all institutions of society to forge partnerships with families. We now promise to do our part to develop such a partnership within the Church. Specifically, as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, we pledge: Most of these documents those listed with a publication number are available from: Teaching on the dignity of marriage, the role of the family, and the duty of society and the Church to support families.
Encyclical letter on the nature and purposes of married love, the gift of fertility, and the call to responsible parenthood. Pope John Paul II. Apostolic exhortation on the nature and tasks of the Christian family and the scope of pastoral care needed by families.
Print Share Calendar Diocesan Locator. Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth. Families Are a Sign of God's Presence Ways of Loving When people talk about life in a family, they speak of love with its abiding peace, its searing pain, its moments of joy and disappointment, its heroic struggle and ordinary routines.
The Way of Love Our ministry as pastors and teachers is enriched by our family experience. Reflection Questions What image, feeling, or memory comes to mind when you think about your family? What does it tell you about your life as a family? Your family life is sacred because family relationships confirm and deepen this union and allow the Lord to work through you. The profound and the ordinary moments of daily life—mealtimes, workdays, vacations, expressions of love and intimacy, household chores, caring for a sick child or elderly parent, and even conflicts over things like how to celebrate holidays, discipline children, or spend money—all are the threads from which you can weave a pattern of holiness.
Jesus promised to be where two or three are gathered in his name cf. We give the name church to the people whom the Lord gathers, who strive to follow his way of love, and through whose lives his saving presence is made known. A family is our first community and the most basic way in which the Lord gathers us, forms us, and acts in the world.
The early Church expressed this truth by calling the Christian family a domestic church or church of the home. This marvelous teaching was underemphasized for centuries but reintroduced by the Second Vatican Council.
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Today we are still uncovering its rich treasure. The point of the teaching is simple, yet profound. As Christian families, you not only belong to the Church, but your daily life is a true expression of the Church. Your domestic church is not complete by itself, of course. It should be united with and supported by parishes and other communities within the larger Church.
Christ has called you and joined you to himself in and through the sacraments. Therefore, you share in one and the same mission that he gives to the whole Church. You carry out the mission of the church of the home in ordinary ways when: You believe in God and that God cares about you.
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It is God to whom you turn in times of trouble. It is God to whom you give thanks when all goes well. You love and never give up believing in the value of another person. Before young ones hear the Word of God preached from the pulpit, they form a picture of God drawn from their earliest experiences of being loved by parents, grandparents, godparents, and other family members. You foster intimacy , beginning with the physical and spiritual union of the spouses and extending in appropriate ways to the whole family. To be able to share yourself—good and bad qualities—within a family and to be accepted there is indispensable to forming a close relationship with the Lord.
You evangelize by professing faith in God, acting in accord with gospel values, and setting an example of Christian living for your children and for others. And your children, by their spontaneous and genuine spirituality, will often surprise you into recognizing God's presence. As the primary teachers of your children, you impart knowledge of the faith and help them to acquire values necessary for Christian living.
Your example is the most effective way to teach. Sometimes they listen and learn; sometimes they teach you new ways of believing and understanding. Your wisdom and theirs come from the same Spirit. You pray together , thanking God for blessings, reaching for strength, asking for guidance in crisis and doubt You know as you gather—restless toddlers, searching teenagers, harried adults—that God answers all prayers, but sometimes in surprising ways.
You serve one another , often sacrificing your own wants, for the other's good. You struggle to take up your cross and carry it with love. Your "deaths" and "risings" become compelling signs of Jesus' own life, death, and resurrection. You forgive and seek reconciliation. Over and over, you let go of old hurts and grudges to make peace with one another.
And family members come to believe that, no matter what, they are still loved by you and by God. You celebrate life—birthdays and weddings, births and deaths, a first day of school and a graduation, rites of passage into adulthood, new jobs, old friends, family reunions, surprise visits, holy days and holidays.
You come together when tragedy strikes and in joyful celebration of the sacraments. As you gather for a meal, you break bread and share stories, becoming more fully the community of love Jesus calls us to be. You welcome the stranger, the lonely one, the grieving person into your home. You give drink to the thirsty and food to the hungry. The Gospel assures us that when we do this, they are strangers no more, but Christ.
You act justly in your community when you treat others with respect, stand against discrimination and racism, and work to overcome hunger, poverty, homelessness, illiteracy. You affirm life as a precious gift from God. You oppose whatever destroys life, such as abortion, euthanasia, unjust war, capital punishment, neighborhood and domestic violence, poverty and racism. Within your family, when you shun violent words and actions and look for peaceful ways to resolve conflict, you become a voice for life, forming peacemakers for the next generation.
You raise up vocations to the priesthood and religious life as you encourage your children to listen for God's call and respond to God's grace. This is especially fostered through family prayer, involvement in parish life, and by the way you speak of priests, sisters, brothers, and permanent deacons. No domestic church does all this perfectly.
Love for all creation, for its harmony. Saint Francis of Assisi bears witness to the need to respect all that God has created, and that men and women are called to safeguard and protect, but above all he bears witness to respect and love for every human being. God created the world to be a place where harmony and peace can flourish. Francis was a man of harmony and peace. From this City of Peace, I repeat with all the strength and the meekness of love: Let us respect creation, let us not be instruments of destruction! Let us respect each human being.
May there be an end to armed conflicts which cover the earth with blood; may the clash of arms be silenced; and everywhere may hatred yield to love, injury to pardon, and discord to unity. Let us listen to the cry of all those who are weeping, who are suffering and who are dying because of violence, terrorism or war, in the Holy Land, so dear to Saint Francis, in Syria, throughout the Middle East and everywhere in the world. Obtain for us God's gift of harmony and peace in this our world! Finally, I cannot forget the fact that today Italy celebrates Saint Francis as her patron saint.
The traditional offering of oil for the votive lamp, which this year is given by the Region of Umbria, is an expression of this. Let us pray for Italy, that everyone will always work for the common good, and look more to what unites us, rather than what divides us. I make my own the prayer of Saint Francis for Assisi, for Italy and for the world: Do not look upon our ingratitude, but always keep in mind the surpassing goodness which you have shown to this City. Grant that it may always be the home of men and women who know you in truth and who glorify your most holy and glorious name, now and for all ages.
That priests, who experience fatigue and loneliness in their pastoral work, may find help and comfort in their intimacy with the Lord and in their friendship with their brother priests. Pope Francis Tuesday appointed two Italians to leading positions within the communications department, naming veteran Vatican journalist Organizers of the Vatican's February meeting on sexual abuse have sent a letter to the participating bishops asking them to meet with abuse More than nativity scenes are on display near the Vatican as the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization seeks The death penalty is always a rejection of the Gospel and of human dignity, and therefore must be rejected by all countries, Pope Francis Reading 1, Jeremiah Rufus and Zosimus were citizens of Antioch or The California Network Inspiring streaming service.
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Mary our Mother knows the joys and struggles felt in each home. Holding them in her Immaculate Heart, she brings them with love to the throne of her Son. As a remembrance of my visit, I have presented the Shrine with a rosary. I know how important the tradition of the family rosary has been in this country. I warmly encourage you to continue this tradition. In my prayer before her statue, I presented to her in particular all the survivors of abuse committed by members of the Church in Ireland.
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None of us can fail to be moved by the stories of young people who suffered abuse, were robbed of their innocence, were separated from their mothers, and were left scarred by painful memories. This open wound challenges us to be firm and decisive in the pursuit of truth and justice. I ask our Blessed Mother to intercede for all the survivors of abuse of any kind and to confirm every member of our Christian family in the resolve never again to permit these situations to occur. And to intercede for all of us, so that we can proceed always with justice and remedy, to the extent it depends on us, such violence.
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My pilgrimage to Knock also allows me to address a warm greeting to the beloved people of Northern Ireland. Although my Journey for the World Meeting of Families does not include a visit to the North, I assure you of my affection and my closeness in prayer. I ask Our Lady to sustain all the members of the Irish family to persevere, as brothers and sisters, in the work of reconciliation. Now, with these intentions, and all the intentions hidden in our hearts, let us turn to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the prayer of the Angelus. I offer a special greeting to the men and women in this country who are in prison.
I especially thank those who wrote to me upon learning that I would visit Ireland. I would like to say to you: I am close to you, very close. I assure you and your families of my closeness in prayer. May Our Lady of Mercy watch over you and protect you, and strengthen you in faith and hope! Thirty-nine years ago, over a million Irish people gathered around this Cross for the Mass celebrated by your predecessor Pope Saint John Paul.
It was an historical moment. It is commonplace to say that today you come to a different Ireland. The Church in Ireland has gone through challenging times. This Cross which dominates our gathering today is a symbol. It was probably never intended to be a permanent memorial.
There were times when people asked that it be removed. There were times when this Cross appeared starkly isolated in the bleakness of an Irish winter. In these years Ireland has had its winter moments but also its moments of spring. Those of us who know what an Irish winter is like — and we have had good experience of that this year — know also what happens when the first rays of spring sun emerge. Today we gather around the same cross in the hope of a spring for the Irish Church. We look towards a spring sun that does not wish to cover up the harshness of dark days.
We wish rather to help families realise anew that the future of Ireland needs the light of the message of Jesus Christ to reappear in all its simplicity and hopefulness. It may seem a paradox for me to say in the same breath that the faith in Ireland is strong and that faith in Ireland is fragile.
We pray for you and for the ministry that the Lord has entrusted to you. Yesterday I met with eight persons who are survivors of the abuse of power, the abuse of conscience and sexual abuse. We ask forgiveness for the cases of abuse in Ireland, the abuse of power, the abuse of conscience and sexual abuse on the part of representatives of the Church. In a special way, we ask forgiveness for all those abuses that took place in different kinds of institutions directed by men and women religious and other members of the Church. We also ask forgiveness for cases in which many minors were exploited for their labour.
We ask forgiveness for all those times when, as a Church, we did not offer to the survivors of any type of abuse compassion and the pursuit of justice and truth by concrete actions. We ask forgiveness for some members of the hierarchy who took no responsibility for these painful situations and kept silent.
We ask forgiveness those children who were taken away from their mothers and for all those times when so many single mothers who tried to find their children that had been taken away, or those children who tried to find their mothers, were told that this was a mortal sin. It is not a mortal sin; it is the fourth commandment! May the Lord preserve and increase this sense of shame and repentance, and grant us the strength to ensure that it never happens again and that justice is done. At the end of this World Meeting of Families, we gather as a family around the table of the Lord.
We thank God for the many blessings we have received in our families. In this precious moment of communion with one another and with the Lord, it is good to pause and consider the source of all the good things we have received. In response, the Lord tells them directly: These words, with their promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit, are teeming with life for us who accept them in faith. They point to the ultimate source of all the good that we have experienced and celebrated here in these past few days: Each new day in the life of our families, and each new generation, brings the promise of a new Pentecost, a domestic Pentecost, a fresh outpouring of the Spirit, the Paraclete, whom Jesus sends as our Advocate, our Consoler and indeed our Encourager.
Because living in love, even as Christ loved us cf. The love that alone can save our world from its bondage to sin, selfishness, greed and indifference to the needs of the less fortunate. That is the love we have come to know in Christ Jesus. It became incarnate in our world through a family, and through the witness of Christian families in every age it has the power to break down every barrier in order to reconcile the world to God and to make us what we were always meant to be: The task of bearing witness to this Good News is not easy.
Yet the challenges that Christians face today are, in their own way, no less difficult than those faced by the earliest Irish missionaries. I think of Saint Columbanus, who with his small band of companions brought the light of the Gospel to the lands of Europe in an age of darkness and cultural dissolution.
Their extraordinary missionary success was not based on tactical methods or strategic plans, no, but on a humble and liberating docility to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. It was their daily witness of fidelity to Christ and to each other that won hearts yearning for a word of grace and helped give birth to the culture of Europe. Yet like Saint Columbanus and his companions, who faced icy waters and stormy seas to follow Jesus, may we never be swayed or discouraged by the icy stare of indifference or the stormy winds of hostility.
But let us also humbly acknowledge that, if we are honest with ourselves, we too can find the teachings of Jesus hard.
How difficult it is always to forgive those who hurt us; how challenging always to welcome the migrant and the stranger; how painful joyfully to bear disappointment, rejection, betrayal; how inconvenient to protect the rights of the most vulnerable, the unborn or the elderly, who seem to impinge upon our own sense of freedom. Yet it is precisely at those times that the Lord asks us: With the people of Israel, we can repeat: May our celebration today confirm each of you, parents and grandparents, children and young people, men and women, religious brothers and sisters, contemplatives and missionaries, deacons, priests and bishops, to share the joy of the Gospel!
Share the Gospel of the family as joy for the world! As we now prepare to go our separate ways, let us renew our fidelity to the Lord and to the vocation he has given to each of us. Taking up the prayer of Saint Patrick, let each of us repeat with joy: With the joy and strength given by the Holy Spirit, let us say to him with confidence: I thank Archbishop Martin and the Archdiocese of Dublin for their work of preparation and organization, and in a particular way, I express my gratitude for the support and assistance provided by the government, the civil authorities and the many volunteers from Ireland and other countries, who gave so generously of their time and effort.
I want to say a special word of thanks to all those who prayed for this Meeting: May the Lord repay you! On behalf of the members of the Irish Episcopal Conference, I would like to say how deeply grateful we are for the special visit you have made to Dublin for the IX World Meeting of Families. This is a blessing for the Church in Ireland and for our country.
The last time we talked together with you was during our ad limina visit to Rome in January last year, when we shared our hopes for the World Meeting of Families. Today we give thanks to God that the last few days have indeed proven to be such an inspiration and joy for so many people. Your presence with us, Holy Father, has brought great happiness to Ireland and you have given us many reasons to hope for the future of the Church in this island and beyond. The vibrant participation — especially by young families — in the activities of these past few days has encouraged us bishops and reminded us that this is our time to be shepherds, and it is an exciting time to be Church.
This is our time for living. This is our time for believing. Holy Father you have seen during your short visit that Family life remains strong in Ireland. Parents continue to want the best for their children in this complicated world with so many distractions and false promises.
Our task is to convince them that in Christ they can find a reason for living, a reason for hoping and a path to genuine happiness and fulfilment for themselves and their family. Your Holiness, as you return to Rome we wish to assure you of a special remembrance in our prayers for your ministry as successor of St Peter, the one who was called to confirm his brethren.
We ask you to carry with you the prayers of the people of God in this country, and us their pastors whom the Lord has appointed to care for them. As my visit to Ireland comes to a close, I am grateful for this chance to spend a few moments with you. I thank Archbishop Eamon Martin for his gracious words of introduction and I greet all of you with affection in the Lord.
Our meeting tonight takes up the fraternal discussion we shared in Rome last year during your visit ad Limina Apostolorum. In these brief remarks, I would like to resume our earlier conversation, in the spirit of the World Meeting of Families we have just celebrated. As good fathers, we want to encourage and inspire, to reconcile and unify, and above all, to preserve all the good handed down from generation to generation in this great family which is the Church in Ireland.
It is true, the Church in Ireland remains strong; it is true. In a particular way, I am grateful for the concern you continue to show for the poor, the excluded and those in need of a helping hand, as witnessed most recently by your pastoral letters on the homeless and on substance misuse. I am also grateful for the support you give to your priests, whose hurt and discouragement in the face of recent scandals are often ignored or underestimated. Be close to your priests!
For you, as bishops, they are the closest of your neighbours. Among these, women who were mistreated. In recent years, you as a body have resolutely moved forward, not only by undertaking paths of purification and reconciliation with victims and survivors of abuse, but also, with the help of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Church in Ireland, you have set in place a stringent set of norms aimed at ensuring the safety of young persons.
In these years, all of us have had our eyes opened — painfully — to the gravity and extent of sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience in various social settings. In Ireland, as elsewhere, the honesty and integrity with which the Church chooses to confront this painful chapter of her history can offer an example and a warning to society as a whole.
Continue on this path. Humiliation is painful, but we have been saved by the humiliation of the Son of God and this gives us courage. The wounds of Christ give us courage. Do not repeat the attitudes of aloofness and clericalism that at times in your history have given the real image of an authoritarian, harsh and autocratic Church.
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The World Meeting of Families has given us great hope and encouragement that families are growing more and more conscious of their own irreplaceable role in passing on the faith. Passing on the faith essentially takes place in the family; the faith is passed on in everyday speech, the language of the family. At the same time, Catholic schools and programmes of religious instruction continue to play an indispensable role in creating a culture of faith and a sense of missionary discipleship.
I know that this is a source of pastoral concern for all of you. Genuine religious formation calls for faithful and joyful teachers who are able to shape not only minds but also hearts in the love of Christ and in the practice of prayer. Yesterday the President of the nation told me that he had written a poem about Descartes and said, more or less: Forming the mind, yes, but also the heart. And teaching how to pray: The upheavals of recent years have tested the traditionally strong faith of the Irish people.
Yet they have also offered the opportunity for an interior renewal of the Church in this country and pointed to new ways of envisioning its life and mission. With humility and trust in his grace, may you discern and set out on new paths for these new times. Be courageous and creative. Surely, the strong missionary sense rooted in the soul of your people will inspire creative ways of bearing witness to the truth of the Gospel and building up the community of believers in the love of Christ and zeal for the growth of his kingdom.
As Saint John of the Cross teaches us, it is in the dark night that the light of faith shines purest in our hearts. And that light will show the way to the renewal of the Christian life in Ireland in the years ahead. Finally, in the spirit of ecclesial communion, I ask you to continue to foster unity and fraternity among yourselves — this is very important — and, together with the leaders of other Christian communities, to work and pray fervently for reconciliation and peace among all the members of the Irish family.
Today, at lunch we were seated, myself, then [the bishops from] Dublin and Northern Ireland… all together, everyone. There is another thing that I always say, but it bears repeating. What is the first duty of the bishop? I say it to everyone: When the Greek-speaking Christians complained that their widows were being neglected cf. Then when Peter explained the matter, he concluded by saying: So I throw out a question and each of you can answer it at home: With these thoughts, dear brothers, I assure you of my prayers for your intentions, and I ask you to keep me in your own.
To all of you, and to the faithful entrusted to your pastoral care, I impart my blessing as a pledge of joy and strength in our Lord Jesus Christ. I am close to you: The Lord is very good, and Our Lady is watching over you. When things get a little difficult, pray the Sub tuum praesidium, because the Russian mystics say that at moments of spiritual turmoil, we should go under the mantle of the Holy Mother of God, sub tuum praesidium.
Thank you very much! Now I will give you my blessing. Certainly, there were difficult moments. In Ireland, there was the matter of abuses, but also very beautiful moments: To say thank you, because if I am tired I think of you who have work, work, work… I thank you so much for your effort and your work. The first question, as usual, comes from a journalist of the [host] nation which is Tony Connelly, RTE. Your Holiness, you spoke on Saturday about the meeting you had with the minister for children. You talked about how moved you were by what she said about the mother and baby homes.
What exactly did she tell you? Were you shocked because it was the first time you had heard of these homes? She told me, and she was brief: I thanked her to the point that this had touched my heart. At the airport, there was another lady minister and I made the mistake there. I saw it was a memo, that she sent me a memo. That lady had a dignity that touched my heart, and now I have the memo there that I will study when I get home. Now, another Irishman, exchanging places, which is Paddy Agnew, who is from the Sunday Independent, a resident in Rome but an Irish journalist.
Paddy Agnew, Sunday Independent: Holy Father, thanks and good evening. Yesterday, Marie Collins, an abuse victim that you know well, said that you are not favorable to a new tribunal for Vatican inquiries on the issue of abuses, new inquiries on the problem of sexual abuse, and in particular on a so-called tribunal of inquiry on bishops, bishop accountability.
Why do you think this is not necessary? Marie Collins is a bit fixated on the idea that came up. I esteem Marie Collins so much. At times, we call her to give Vatican conferences. It is a thing that works better and also because not all bishops are able to leave their dioceses. Rather many bishops have been judged. The latest is that of Guam, the Archbishop of Guam, who appealed.
I took it upon myself. And made a commission of canonists that are helping me and they told me that when I get back, after a maximum of a month, a recommendation will be made so I can make a judgment. It is a complicated case, on one hand, but not difficult because the evidence is clear. I cannot pre-judge, I await the report and then I will judge. I say that the evidence is clear because there is this evidence which led the first tribunal to the condemnation.
This is the latest step. She did not understand that well. But, when I see her, sometimes she comes to the Vatican, I will explain it more clearly. You said also today that it is always a challenge to welcome migrants and the foreigner. Well, precisely yesterday a painful matter was resolved, that of the Diciotti ship.
Is your hoof behind this solution? What was your involvement? Yes, then the second question: What do you think? The welcoming of migrants is something as old as the bible. God commands welcoming the migrant, the foreigner. I spoke about this. It should be a reasonable welcoming. And when did I realize how this reasonable welcome must be? That is, they were received by the country and left there, and they made a ghetto.
They were not integrated. Franca Giansoldati, Vatican correspondent for il Messaggero in an article mentioned this, of how I explicitly made this though and when I went to Sweden, I knew it, I spoke about integration, as it was, because I knew because during the dictatorship in Argentina, from to , many, many Argentinians and also many Uruguayans escaped to Sweden and there the government would integrate them immediately.
It taught them the language, gave them a job and integrated them. To the point that, this is an interesting anecdote, a Minister who came to bid me farewell at the airport in Lund was the daughter of a Swedish and an African immigrant.
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This African migrant was so integrated to the extent that his daughter became a minister. Sweden was a model. This was the reason for which Sweden stopped for a bit. After this step of integration And then, I spoke during the press conference among you about the virtue of prudence, the virtue of the government.
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I spoke about the prudence of peoples, about the number or the possibility. There, there is the issue of prudence. And I believe that this is the real core of the dialogue today in the European Union. We must continue to speak. Solutions will be found. What happened with the Diciotti? He who did the work with the minister of the interior was Fr.
Aldo that continues the work of Fr. Cardinal Bassetti was there, but at the telephone, he guided everything by way of one of his two under-secretaries, Fr. Ivan Maffeis, director of communications negotiated with the minister. And I believe that he went to Albania.
Albania, Ireland took a number. Montenegro, I think not. They will be welcomed there. The number I believe that it is more than and there they will begin to learn the language and to do that work that is done with integrated migrants. This is the work with migrants. There is an openness of heart for everyone, suffering, then integration as a condition for welcoming and then the prudence of those who govern for doing this. I have seen a clandestinely made film of the things that happen to those who are sent back. They are taken by the traffickers.
Painful, the things that they do to the men… the women and the children, out! But to the men, they do the most sophisticated torture. Michael Czerny and Fr. Fabio Baggio, undersecretaries of the Migrants and Refugees Section. For this, to send them back you have to think well. Then, one last thing: Good evening, Holy Father.
In it, he says that in he had a personal talk with you at the Vatican, and that in that talk, he spoke to you explicitly of the behavior of and the sexual abuse by former-Cardinal McCarrick. I wanted to ask you if this was true. I also wanted to ask something else: May I ask you whether these two things are true? I will respond to your question, but I would prefer last first we speak about the trip, and then other topics. I was distracted by Stefania, but I will respond. I read the statement this morning, and I must tell you sincerely that, I must say this, to you and all those who are interested.