In his sermon in Queen Dominini on the holy Thursday, the Cardinal ARCIPREST from Bazilica San Pedro draws attention to the challenges of the present, which was characterized by wars born from non -sympathy and fragility of relationships. Referring to the road is the gesture of Jesus, which bends to wash his feet to his disciples, embodies the “dynamics of proximity”.
EDOARDO GIRIBALDI – VATICAN CIDAD
The world “betrays us”, “gives us”, for “economic and power” profits. For this logic – which collects the conflicts of our time – contradicts a new “power”, which is inherent in “presentation” and embodied by Jesus, the concrete expression of “the dynamic of proximity.” This is the image presented by the Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Arciprest from the papal basilica in San Pedro, in the sermon of the Mass in Queen Dominini Thursday. The celebration, which was chaired by the Cardinal this afternoon, April 17, included the altar of the Vatican Chair, in the presence of the Cardinal State Minister, Petro Parolin, the traditional rituals of the foot basin.
A moment of the football basin (expects a half -division image)
The first Easter, between persecution and suffering
The sermon of Cardinal Gambette has fallen into history. Return to Easter origins, the first, in Egypt. The earth, at the time, is from “slavery, repression and suffering”. Cardinal recall the Hebrew term from which the word Easter derives, that is, “Basakh”, which can be translated as “jump, protection”.
God dances in front of the houses to protect Anawim, humble, poor who trust him, while death passes.
Cardinal Gambeti Eints
Easter Jesus, “Human in Test”
Easter is also fulfilled in the test, between “injustice, strikes, slander, diseases, violence, fears, unit.” However, in such a difficult context, “You want to sponsor intimacy and familiarity for the local house.” Cenacle is a heterogeneous “mosaic” of humanity. The features of the students, the most diverse: “rush and emotional, inverter, deep, ambitious and bilateral, honest and humble.” Common properties are instead thirst for glory, weakness and ability to hide a person’s fragility.
I deeply transfer Jesus with the participation of bread and wine with everyone who gave him the Father. It is very human, in the test. I believe that the number of opportunities I lost to be a very human being in the face of the tribulations of life, or is busy searching for solutions or ways to escape.
The present Easter, where sympathy is missing
From the Bible, Cardinal’s view of the present time has been extended, not less than many of the “Judah” who rob “values, intelligence, awareness and human love.
We are all offered for sale, based on cost and interest, in exchange for some economic and power benefits.
Cardinal’s complaint extends to the woven ties in the various daily life contexts, where “mercy” is missing. The world “betrays” in search of profits, and even religious practices is exposed to the risk of falling into this logic, when bending before “a form of glory, some good materials or some strength: we sell our faith.”
Wars are nothing more than the result of decay, and reduced conflicts and evil in the world. How many crucified in all of this!
Cenacle does not look evangelical out of the current families. “Fragility”, “low self”, “anger”, but also “thirst for freedom, justice and peace.”
“The only thing that he cares about is love.”
Jesus’ personality embodies the anti -pests today. “He does not want to win, revive, or enrich itself.”
The only thing that he cares about is love. This is the only priesthood. Wash your feet, even your feet. Wash my feet. Wash your feet. Live the dynamic dynamic, the reciprocity, live the act of giving and receipt, and lives the ability to serve and welcome.
“Heba himself to live people”
The heart of Jesus tends to tend to his disciples, “with human poverty and one with the divine majesty”, while giving “life” to “every sheep of the herd.” A gesture crosses the centuries and is still embodied. Also, Giuseppe Bradelli, the priest of Bergamscasco, who was reminded of Cardinal Gambeti who, during the epidemic, delivered his industrial respiratory system so that the other could use it. He died.
Self -gift to help people live.
Cardinal concluded his reflection, wishing a “new time” for the church, in which he can “reveal his nature as a priestly people.” A revolution that passes through “to become” the Eucharist, the tradition of Jesus, shows “divine humanity that gave us baptism.”
Foot washbasin rituals
During the celebration, the rituals of the basin were performed. Arcipretste bend his head twelve for Ante, men and women who are repeated or working in the ships of Basilica San Pedro. Daily faces, each of which has its own fragility, the live symbols of that great Cenacle of humanity raised by the Cardinal Gambette in its sermon. The soundtrack consists of the sounds of Cappella Giulia, the historical choir that accompanies the celebrations held in San Pedro by the Vatican chapter, which is not chaired by the Pope. A musical heritage drowned its roots in 1513, when Pope Julius II reorganized this group that still maintains, note after note, the beauty of the Mass.