In the center Christ, hope and peace. “Christ who makes the other, whatever it is, mine and our neighbor and not an foreign or an enemy”. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi speaks to the 40 thousand young Italians, gathered in St. Peter’s Square for Confessio Fidei. Remember that the Church embraces everyone, when she repeats the word three times, as Pope Francis did, an applause climbs from young people. “Surely smiles from heaven,” comments the president of the CEI. Speaks of the joy of faith, but also of Mary’s pain, “under an unjust and terrible cross on which her son and children is nailed” crosses who are still today «Built madly by the men who manufacture weapons to kill and often destroy what makes hospitals live. The church is under the cross with eyes full of tears and her heart injured for so much enormous suffering, unbearable for a mother as it must always be for humanity “. Today many “useless massacres” are fought, many useless crosses, just go to see war cemeteries. Pope Leone “asked us for disarmed peace and for this disarming”. And remember, Cardinal Zuppi, who: «It is really sad to attend today in many contexts to impair the law of the strongest, according to which their interests are legitimized. This is unworthy of man, it is shameful for humanity and for the managers of nations. How can you believe, after centuries of history, that the war actions bring peace and do not turn against those who have conducted them? … How can you continue to betray “, Pope Leone still cites,” The peace desires of peoples with the false propaganda of the rearmament, in the vain illusion that supremacy solves problems rather than food and revenge? “.
Call young people to disarm “our hearts to disarm hearts and hands of a violent world, to heal the scars, to prevent new conflicts! Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said: “Everything seems to talk about death, hatred, destruction, violence, it seems just a night that never ends” “. We are in a “night of terrible and unacceptable injustice, of violence that always strike the poor first and that actually make everyone poor”. The Cardinal denounces the killings of Men and Women, of children and recalls that “we can never get used to infinite suffering. AND A world that accepts new as normal to think against each other or one without the other, which is not disrepriced in the unimaginable strength of nuclear devices. In our world it becomes normal above each other, against each otherand we no longer believe that we are on the same boat and that humanity must put an end to war or war will end humanity ». In the face of this there is the call to be “disciples of Jesus, Peace operators in a world like this, to defend life always from its beginning to the end, of all, without distinctions, they are all brothers, always covering the person of dignity and care ». There is a need for consolation, to overcome hatred, to teach to understand the hidden good in each, to turn off the vendettas, to keep company with the solitudes, to save from death to the sea or in the desert, to stop manufacturing weapons, to turn on the heart of hope.
Confessing one’s faith, together with Peter, means believing in salvation also in the darkness of darkness, understanding that there is more joy in giving than in receiving. “I think Lord,” says Cardinal Zuppi, “and I’m no longer afraid of life, I don’t keep it for me, I don’t look for a limited measure because your love is strength and life is always blessed”. And then even the smallest communities are always large if there is the Lord inside ». Confess faith together “helps us support each otherwith nurses with the strength of the fraternity, with the strength of friendship and of wanting to love each other, different as we are, because we believe that we can love and you can love forever because love repairs, she always repairs, much more than what we believe, because the love that the Lord gives every division gives and makes us for each other, as we are made “.
This is “our hope”. And then, concludes the cardinal, “thanks Jesus, my love and ours, who does not resign you and continue to trust us. Each of us, you know because you know our heart well, has many things to build. You Lord talks to us about the spiritual building and to become stone. The importance of each stone is never to be isolatedbut it is herself when it is together. We are ourselves when we think about others. Satan always insists on wanting to transform the stones into breads, forcing everything to feed our ego as the ancient and never defeated temptation to become God, great, strong, unattainable, performance. But we are living stones and the actor is always the Lord ». And us with him, we become “actors of true life, protagonists for serving». God does not ask us not to make mistakes but to love him and follow him as we are “to be and to change”. He also recalls «Simone, son of Giovanni, who three times denied him. Do you love me? Lord, you know everything; You know I love you. You are the Christ, the Son of God. You are and I am. Thank you. Follow me. I will follow you and you continue to love me and forgive me. Hope, patience, peace. Thanks Jesus ».
