Pope holds Easter candle at basilica vigil

[TevereNauta]

Pope holds Easter candle at basilica vigil

As near as I can get sans hateful venom from comment sections for you all, dear friends (as usual, the version of the story from my ‘favorite’ search engine/chocolate drink was loaded with apalling comments so here is the meat without the…your analogy if you wish).

A few points the Holy Father made I found memorable and extremely pertinent:

“Life is stronger than death. Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Truth is stronger than lies,” Benedict, wearing white robes in a symbol of new life, told the faithful in a packed St. Peter’s Basilica.

Still, Benedict worried in his homily: “The darkness that poses a real threat to mankind, after all, is the fact that he can see and investigate tangible material things, but cannot see where the world is going or whence it comes, where our own life is going, what is good and what is evil.”

And another brillitant observation from our Holy Father:

Benedict, who has made protection of the environment a theme of his papacy, made a reference to urban pollution in his homily. “Today we can illuminate our cities so brightly that the stars in the sky are no longer visible,” he said. “Is this not an image of the problems caused by our version of enlightenment?”

Whenever I hear the Holy Father speak about our sad moral situation contemporarily I am reminded of St. John the Baptist: “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord.”(Matt. 3: 1-12). During this season of joy and life I beg you all to pray for our pope, bishops, priests, deacons, sisters & brothers, and the whole People of God in this dark time.

 

[Brooklyn]

Here is the link to the Vatican website for the actual transcript of the Holy Father’s message:

vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20120407_veglia-pasquale_en.html

It is a very deep and heavy message, basically telling the world that if we continue on our path of spritual darkness, rejecting God and the True Light of Jesus Christ, we are headed for our own destruction.

How I wish the world would listen to this very holy man, the Vicar of Christ. I believe our Lord is speaking through Pope Benedict XVI trying to warn the world of the destructive path we are on. But it seems no one is listening, including far too many in the Catholic Church.

I shudder to think of what the future holds in store.