Papa Francisco recorded this Sunday, March 21, during Angelus’ voyage to the Vatican, which Cruz “converted into the emblem of the excellence of the Christians.”
Explaining that what proceeds of lands and cultures give Christianity is little known and who knows more about Jesus, the first that he “in the churches, in the high places of the Christians, including in the prophecy of the corpse” is the crucifixion.
For this reason, insisting on the importance of “the sign being coherent with the Gospel”, because “the cross can not express love, service, entry without reserves: only then is the ‘year of life’, of life sobreabundante ”.
The Pontifice, which wanted to preside over the Angelus privately from the Library of the Apostolic Palace debated a string of restrictions in Italy over the coronavirus pandemic, and this reflection on the fragment of the Gospel of San Juan was given to a group. to the apostle Felipe and the child to Jesus.
Jesus responds to his petition “in a way that allows him to reflect. Dice asi: ‘He read the hour when he glorified the Hijo del hombre […] If the trio grain in cae en tierra y muere, queda él solo; pero si muere, da mucho fruto ‘”.
“These words,” said the Pope, “do not seem to respond to the petition that I have for those who are gray. In reality, van más allá. Hecho, Jesus reveals that He, for all men who seek Him, is the exhortation to be killed for much fruit. As we say: if you want to know and understand, mirad the spruce tree that dies in the earth, mirad the cross ”.
El Santo Padre hizo hincapié en que “también hoy mucha gente, a menudo sin decirlo implitamente, quisiera ‘ver a Jesús’, encontrarlo, conocerlo. We understand the great responsibility of the Christians and our communities ”.
“We also have to respond to the testimony of a person who enters into service. If you treat yourself to pieces of love with words that live, they come with concrete examples, sentences and values ”.
In this way, the Papa Francisco, “the Lord, with his grace, made us fruitful, including when the land was destroyed by incomprehensions, difficulties or persecutions”.
“Precisely entones, in the proof and in the solemnity, meanwhile the whole wall, is the moment in which the life is broken, in order to bear fruit in its moment. It is in this tragedy of death and life that we may experiment with allegory and the verdadera fecundidad del amor ”, concluded.