Liu fourteenth: That the church be a beacon that illuminates the world’s nights

Tiziana Campi – Vatican Cydad

Among those who rule Jesus in the world in the main church of the Apostolic Palace, Cistin, which appears in the cellar of God to create man, Liu fourteenth declared his first sermon in a mass with the Cardinals, and immediately pointed to the path that the Church should follow, starting with the words of the Apostle Peter who confesses in Christ the “Son of God alive.” The Pope urged a personal commitment to God, in the “daily conversion path”, then addressed the church, so that “belonging to the Lord” live together and “good news for all.”

First words

In the same place where Pontif 267 was chosen yesterday, and where the tables and equipment were soon dismantled to make room for the altar and the Cardinate chairs, Leo XIV started talking in the English language, the treatment of his “Cardinal Brothers” that was called “Peter Ministry”, to “take the cross and see it to this task.” He said: “I know that I can rely on each of you, to walk with me while we continue as a church, as a society of Jesus’ friends, as believers to announce good news, to announce the Bible.”

Today it is not easy to testify to the Bible

In his text, then, the Pope looks at the world, familiar with the reality that Christians are invited to bring the word of God.

There are also many contexts in which Christian faith maintains absurdity, which is for weak and unreasonable people, and the contexts in which other securities prefer their proposal, such as technology, money, success, strength, or pleasure. We talk about environments that are not easy to testify and announce the Bible and where the ridicule that it believes is, which is hindered and despised, or at most, which is supported and tightened. However, specifically because of this, they are places where the task is more urgent.

The world that was entrusted to us

There is a “lack of faith” that “often carries a drama” as “losing the meaning of life, forgetting mercy, and violating the dignity of a person in its most dramatic forms,” ​​included ink, which does not forget “the family crisis and many other wounds that only carry a little suffering for our society.” There are also “contexts where Jesus is estimated, despite its appreciation as a man, only to a kind of charismatic leader or Superman,” and this “not only between non -believers, – Liu XIV – but even among many baptism, who ends up in this field, in fact,” in reality. “

This is the world that entrusted us, which, as Pope Francis taught several times, we are called for testimony to the happy faith of Jesus Salvador. Therefore, for us, it is necessary to repeat: “You are Christ, the Son of God who lives” (MT 16,16).

It disappears until Christ remains

Then the Pope, in the first person, spoke “as a successor to Peter”, recalling his “mission” of the bishop of the church that is in Rome, to the head of the Charitable Church in the World Church “and remembers the words of St. Ignatius from Antioch, the martyr in Rome:” At that time, I will really erode Christ, when the world no longer sees my body. “

His words in a more general sense raises an inalienable commitment to anyone practicing the Ministry of Authority in the church, disappearing to remain Christ, and he becomes small so that he is known and glory (see JN 3,30), spends until the end so that no person loses the opportunity to get to know him and his love. God gives me this blessing, today and always, with the help of Mary’s intercession, the mother of the church.

A model of the sacred humanity to imitate

Before explaining what is the task that the Church must implement today, the Pope stopped in Christ, the “only Savior and the person who reveals the face of the Father”, who “God, to be close and available to men, has later revealed to us in the eyes that show it.” Without forgetting, “the promise of the eternal fate that exceeds all our borders and capabilities.”

The gift of God to announce

But “the inseparable dimensions of salvation”, which “entrusted the church to announce the interest of the human race” is “the gift of God and the path that must be transferred to be transferred.” That is why the Pope, again, insists on delegating it.

God, in particular, by contacting me by voting to happen to the first messengers, this treasure entrusts me with me, so that, with his help, he is his believer official (see 1 Cor 4,2) in favor of the entire Sufi body.

Who is Jesus

After that, Leo XIV directs his view of Christ, who considers the world “a person who lacks full importance, to some extent a curious personality, and who can surprise his unusual way of speaking and acting”, but the presence of “annoyed from the cases of honesty and moral demands he requests”, and thus to reject and wander. While the general public does not consider this “Charlatan”, but “a straight man, a brave man, speaks well and says fair things, like the other great prophets in the history of Israel.” For this reason, they follow, “At least at a time when they can do this without much risks or inconvenience. But they only consider him a man, and therefore, at the time of danger, during emotion, they abandon them and leave, with disappointment,” but “the heritage that he norms between two thousand years, through the Apostolic Heritage, detention, and deepening.”