Holy Land: Waiting is not impossible despite the destruction

Vatican News

It is extremely difficult to talk about hope, and it is difficult to talk about hope here, in the Holy Land, because everything talks about destruction and fear, which is the opposite of hope. However, if we look at what Maria explains to us, we can see many people who continue to give their lives here as well, and do not give up this status of barbarism

These are the words that Cardinal Perbatista Bezabala, Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, entrusted to a video store sent to the participants in the third edition of the “Guest Chair”, which was conceived to enhance the culture of solidarity, the art of confrontation and dialogue. The event, welcomed in spaces Brother From Sacrofano, near Rome, is devoted to the topic “Hope and Welcome, for a brotherly pillars future”, which will be discussed until March 28.

Return to the Holy Land

For the patriarch, who does not give up barbarism, “Determine the hope that already lives in our hearts and this is Jesus Christ.” “The view of the video came on the beginning of the works of this chair, which coincides with” the good news, the feast of the reception par excellence, “through” through “yes, I am here” Mary, God enters history. “

“My desire is that this word that Mary welcomed and then delivered to the world becomes a tangible life for all and remains in the world a different word, life, reception, love and childbirth, which is the Christian style,” Cardinal expects, and calls on everyone to “return to the Holy Land” because “Christian society needs your existence, and the presence of tricks.”

Despite the resumption of hostilities, Cardinal notes that “we are no longer to the previous position: from the point of view of Hajj and travel, the situation is quieter.” However, it is necessary to “have value, confidence and solidarity”, without forgetting that “hope depends on the meeting with Jesus.”

Roman Bishop Birka works on “brotherly domus” from SACROPHANE

The darkness of the past and the hope of the jubilee

Business in Sacrofano also had the intervention of Monsili Bercea, Bishop of the Roman diocese in Uruguay, who recalled the times when his country lived under the influence of the Soviet Union:

“We were behind the solid curtain and we know what this means, we know that the Russians were able to turn Romania into a large prison that no one could leave: all the ideas of Romania were imprisoned, and the Catholic Church was illegal, bishops, priests, priests, and Litty.”

“We have lived very dark times and hope that they will never return in our lives, and the bishop added, and added:” We hope that the story will not return “because” the dream of memory leads to monsters. ” Various. “

The great mark of tumors

The event also gave a space for dialogue between Luka bishop, Monsignor Paulo Julie, and historian Paulo Giuseppe Cauchy von Sukin on the topic of “Earth Paths and Roads”. “At this historical moment, the great sign is free. Monsignor Giulietti said: “Doing things is free, to this day, it is provocative, raises questions, and gives a message that has no power that cannot be interrogated.”

“I welcome you free, and keep without asking you a share – add – this is the language of honor is something that affects the chains of humanity in a way that I would like to say that it is objective and indisputable, especially at this time in history.”

The bishop recalls that “hospitality is necessary for those who do CaminoBut also for those who live in it after they did it themselves, because most of the hospitals are old pilgrims who feel the need to re -experience when they made the road. ” Thus, “to be hostile means that you somehow put yourself in service.”