Pope Leo
“Sisters and brothers, in this time of ours we feel the need for a wise, benevolent and merciful plan, which is a free and liberating, peaceful and faithful project,” he declared in his homily during the rite of First Vespers in St. Peter’s Basilica.
On the other hand, the pope warned that “other designs, both today and in the past, envelop the world.”
“They are rather strategies that aim to conquer markets, territories and areas of influence. Armed strategies, covered in hypocritical speeches, ideological proclamations and false religious motives,” he warned thousands of faithful.
Leo
The reading during the rite of Saint Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, in which he announces the fullness of time with the birth of the Son of God, inspired the pontiff to glimpse a “great and mysterious plan”, divine, that underpins all human history.
“God loves to wait with the hearts of the little ones, involving them in his plan of salvation. The more beautiful the plan, the greater the hope. The world advances like this, driven by the hope of so many simple people, unknown but not to God, who despite everything believe in a better tomorrow,” he said.
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In this sense, he alluded to the Jubilee, the Holy Year opened by his predecessor Francis and which he himself will close on January 6 after having attracted tens of millions of pilgrims from all over the planet to Rome in search of indulgence at the threshold of the Holy Door.
This event, he said, “is the sign of a new world, reconciled and renewed according to God’s design,” and he thanked all those who have been involved in its organization, words heard by the Roman mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, sitting in the front row.
The pope, bishop of Rome, also expressed his desire that the Eternal City “be at the level” of its most vulnerable citizens, children, lonely and frail elderly, families in distress or men and women “who have come from afar seeking a dignified life.”
The rites of the Christmas period will continue already in the New Year, tomorrow Thursday, with the mass in the Vatican basilica for the Solemnity of Mary Most Holy Mother of God, which every year coincides with the World Day of Peace.
With information from EFE
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