We are called to bring our message of hope to all, “f or everyone is in need of reassurance,” Francis said, “and if we, who have touched ‘the Word of life’ (1 Jn 1:1) do not give it, who will?” How beautiful it is to be Christians who offer consolation, who bear the burdens of others and who offer encouragement: messengers of life in a time of death! In every Galilee, in every area of the human family to which we all belong and which is part of us – for we are all brothers and sisters – may we bring the song of life! Let us silence the cries of death, no more wars! May we stop the production and trade of weapons, since we need bread, not guns. He plants in our hearts the conviction that God is able to make everything work unto good, because even from the grave he brings life.Īs Christians, the pope said, we like the Apostles are sent “to Galilee” - a place that evokes daily life and the memory of the first call, but as well, a place where peoples of many different religions dwelled. In this moment, we are given, as a gift, Christian hope - which is not optimism or empty encouragement, but something much greater, he said.
The pope said that tonight’s message reaches us in a particular way, sine this year we have before us, as the holy women did, the “drama of suffering, of an unexpected tragedy that happened all too suddenly.” Pope Francis offered a reflection on hope in his homily for the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday night.
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