In his homily in Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis explained that with the current situations God cries because humanity does not understand the peace that He offers.
POPE FRANCIS
'Even nowadays in front of the calamities, the wars waged in order to worship the god of money, the many innocent people killed by the bombs launched by those who worship the idol of money, God still weeps and He also says: â??Jerusalem, Jerusalem, my children, what are you doing?â?? And He also says this to the poor victims, to the traffickers of arms and to all those who sell the life of people.â?
He also recalled that God is like the father in the parable of the prodigal son. He tenderly watches His children and never gets tired of waiting for them to return to His side.
EXCERPTS OF HOMILY IN ENGLISH
'Somebody said that God became man in order to be able to weep, to weep over what His children had done. The weeping in front of the tomb of Lazarus is the weeping of a friend. This is the weeping of the Father.â?
'And why do I tell you this? Because the Gospel does not talk about this, it says that when his son returned home, he saw him from afar: this means that the Father was continually going up onto the terrace to look at the road to see if his son was coming back. And a father who does this is a father who lives in tears, waiting for his son to return home. This is the weeping of God the Father. And with his weeping, the Father recreates through his Son all of creation.â?
'Even nowadays in front of the calamities, the wars waged in order to worship the god of money, the many innocent people killed by the bombs launched by those who worship the idol of money, God still weeps and He also says: â??Jerusalem, Jerusalem, my children, what are you doing?â?? And he also says this to the poor victims, to the arms traffickers and to all those who sell the life of people. Weâ??d do well to think both about how God our Father became man in order to be able to weep and how God our Father weeps nowadays: he weeps over humanity that ends up not understanding the peace that He offers us, the peace of love.â?
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