“Certainly the disease is one of the most difficult and hard tests of life, in which we touch how fragile we are.” This was said by Pope Francis within the homily ready for the mass celebrated this morning in St. Peter’s Square da Msgr. Rino Fisichella on the event of the Jubilee of the sick. According to the Pontiff, “it can get to make us feel like the people in exile, or like the woman of the Gospel: without hope for the future. But that’s not the case. Even in these moments, God does not leave us alone and, if we abandon ourselves to him, right where our strengths come, we can experience the consolation of his presence ».
“With these dramatic and transferring tales, the liturgy invitations us as we speak to resume, on the Lenten journey, the belief in God, who’s all the time current near us to avoid wasting us”, says Francesco commenting on the readings of the day: “There isn’t any exile, neither violence, nor sin, nor some other actuality of life that may forestall him from being to our door and knocking, able to enter it as quickly as we permit it (CFF). Indeed, “especially when the tests are harder, his grace and love hold us even stronger to recover”.
“He himself, made man -he adds -, he wanted to share our weakness in all (cfe Fil 2,6-8) and knows what the suffering is (cfr Is 53.3). Therefore we can say and entrust our pain, sure of finding compassion, closeness and tenderness ». “But not solely – says the Pope -. In his assured love, in reality, he entails us as a result of we will grow to be in flip, for one another, ‘angels’, messengers of his presence, to the purpose that always, each for individuals who endure and for individuals who help, the mattress of a affected person might be remodeled right into a ‘holy place’ of salvation and redemption “.
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