“When we are depressed by crime reports and feel powerless against evil, we often ask ourselves: Is it a punishment From God? He’s the one who sends you war or one pandemic to the punish us our sins? And why does the Lord not intervene?. By the Angelus Pope Francis he answered these questions with the 30,000 faithful present in St. Peter’s Square. Bergoglio explained: “We must be careful: when evil oppresses us we risk losing clarity and to find a simple answer to what we cannot explain we end up with it blame god. And often the ugly and bad habit blasphemies it comes from here. How often do we attribute our unhappiness to him, do we attribute the unhappiness of the world to him, who instead always leaves us for free and therefore he never intervenes by imposing himself, but by proposing himself; for the one who never uses force and indeed he suffers for us and with us! In fact, Jesus rejects and emphatically denies the idea of attributing our ills to God.
A new appeal for peace from the Pope: “Unfortunately, the violent aggression against Ukraine, a massacre stupid where they repeat themselves every day chaos and atrocities. There is no justification for this! I beg all the Actors of the international community to commit themselves really about to finish this repulsive war. Rockets and bombs were also noticed this week Civilians, the elderly, children and pregnant mothers. I have visited the injured children who are here in Rome. One is missing an arm, the other has a head injury. innocent children I think of the millions refugees Ukrainians who have to flee leaving everything behind and I feel great pain for those who do not even have the opportunity to flee. Many grandparents, the sick and the poor, separated from their families, many children and the infirm die under the bombs without receiving help and without even finding protection in air raid shelters. All this is inhuman! In fact it is sacrilegebecause it goes against the sanctity of human life, especially human life helpless, which must be respected and protected, not eliminated, and which precedes any strategy! Let’s not forget: it is one cruel, inhuman and outrageous“.
“I am comforted to know Francesco added that the population that remained under the bombs is not lacking in closeness shepherdswho live the Gospel of charity and brotherhood in these tragic days. I have heard some of them on the phone over the last few days how close they are to the people of God. Thank you, dear brothers and sisters, for this testimony and for the concrete support that you are courageously offering to so many people in despair! I am also thinking of the Apostolic Nuncio, just made Nuncio, Monsignor Visvaldas Kulbokas, who has remained in Kyiv since the beginning of the war together with his collaborators and whose presence brings me close to the tortured Ukrainian people every day. We stay close The People, let us accept them with affection and with concrete commitment and with prayer. And please don’t get used to war and violence! Let’s not get tired welcome generous in how it is done: not only now in times of need, but also in the coming weeks and months. Because you know we all do our best to welcome the habit at first, but then it cools our hearts a little and we forget. We think of these women, these children who, with time, without work, separated from their husbands, are sought after by the “vultures” of society. Let’s protect her please.” Finally, the Pope’s invitation to “every community and every believer to join me on Friday 25thAnnunciationwhen performing a solemn act of consecration of humanity, especially that Russia andUkraine, to the Immaculate Heart of Maryso that she, the Queen of Peace, may obtain peace for the world.
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