Pope: To close the weapons, tell “Let’s dialogue, negotiate”

Isabella H. De Carvalho – the Vatican city

For “Peace for Publishing, I will use all efforts” and the Apostolic Chair is available “for the enemies to be and look at each other, so that peoples are returned and given the dignity they deserve, the dignity of peace.” This is the message of rapprochement and encouragement that Leo fourteen sent to believers and representatives of the Eastern Churches, in the audience this morning, May 14, in the semester Paul. “I am pleased to find and devote the eastern believers one of the Pontenetes meetings,” the Pope told the crowd in Rome on the occasion of the jubilee designated for them, which is celebrated from 12 to 14 May.

In his speech, the Pope called on the leaders of the peoples to dialogue “to close weapons”, while remembering the conflicts that affect many of the areas from which these believers come: “From the Holy Land to Ukraine, from Lebanon to Syria, from the Middle East to Tigray and Slice, how violence!” Despite these difficult contexts, Christians in the Eastern Churches were called “brightness with faith, hope and charity”, because they are “precious” for the church.

“Who can sing the words of hope in the abyss of violence? Who is more than you, who knows the horrors of war, to the extent that Pope Francis called the “martyrs” to his churches? »

They are silent weapons, who cultivate peace will decrease in history

In an active call for peace, Liu fourteenth remembers the “horror” that many oriental believers lived, confronting the wars and tensions that cause “the massacres of many young life” that die “in the name of the military invasion.” “I am thinking about a variety of its origins, about the advent history and the bitter suffering that many of their societies have suffered or exposed to.” In this context, “A call to emerge: not a lot of the Pope, but from Christ, who repeats:” Peace be upon you! “The Pope said, he repeats the first words he announced after his choice.” Let us pray for this peace, which is reconciliation, celebration, and the value of transforming the page and starting again.

People want peace and I, with my heart in my hands, tell those responsible for the people: Let’s find, let’s talk, negotiate! The war is never inevitable, and weapons can be silenced and should be silenced, because they do not solve problems but increase them; Because it will decrease in the date that will be cultivated, and not from the victims of the victims; Because others are not enemies, but humans: the bad guys hate, but people to talk to them. Let’s reject the exemplary mania visions of violent novels, which divide the world into good and bad.

Special thought for Middle East Christians

“The church will not be tired of repetition: to be silent,” Liu fourteen again. In particular, “Christians – Eastern and Latin – who, especially in the Middle East, are persistent and resisting in their lands, stronger than the temptation to abandon them.”

We must give Christians a possibility, not only for the word, to stay in their lands with all the rights necessary for a safe presence. Please, seek that!

Preserving the heritage of the Eastern Churches

The Pope also cited his predecessor, whose name inspired Liu XII Eastern dignity On November 30, 1894. Indeed, the inch made a “sense of appeal” to emphasize the importance of preserving the classes and traditions in the eastern churches, which are still threatened. In fact, Liu XIII’s interest is “very current”, the Pope said.

In our days, many of the eastern brothers and sisters, including many of you, forced to flee the lands of origin due to war, persecution, instability and poverty, and they are exposed to risks, when they reach the West, to lose not only your country, but also your religious identity. Thus, with the passage of generations, the invaluable heritage of the Eastern Churches lost.

Trends to help oriental believers in the diaspora

In fact, Leo XIV explains that the church accepts its ancestor: “We welcome the call to protect and promote the Christian East, especially in the diaspora; Here, in addition to erection, wherever possible, in time, eastern eastern circles, it is necessary to educate the Latinians. ” The Pope also asks the eastern churches to help him “identify the principles, rules and guidelines through which Latin shepherds can support Eastern Catholics specifically in the diaspora and maintain their live traditions and enrich the privacy of the context in which they live.” Leo XIV repeats that it is important that the eastern traditions are not reduced “for practical and comfortable reasons” or “damaged by consumer and utilitarian spirit.”

The church needs them. How great is the contribution that the Christian East can give us today! How much we need to restore the meaning of mystery, alive in their hawks, which includes the human person as a whole, sings the beauty of salvation and raising surprise before the divine greatness that embraces human childhood!

They are still light in the world

“Thank you, dear brothers and sisters in the East, where Jesus, Sol de Justicia, appeared, for being“ lights in the world ”, concludes to the ink. He wants the eastern churches to remain“ example ”and that the shepherds promote“ communication ”, especially in management in management. Ten.

The splendor of the Christian East is calling for more than ever, to liberate itself from all worldly dependence and any direction that contradicts the company, to be loyal to obedience and evangelical testimony.