The tragedy that we are experiencing in Valencia and in other places in Spain makes us more aware that human life is very vulnerable. We work, precisely!, to establish a protection network, to provide security and well-being to the extent possible, but all of this cannot make us forget that condition of vulnerability. Tragedy invites us, almost forces us, to ask ourselves questions. Naturally, those that refer to crisis management, to the technical and political decisions underway. But that is not enough, we cannot silence the questions that refer to the value and meaning of our lives: to pain and sacrifice, to the death of loved ones, to our demand for justice and happiness. They are not separable things. We demand that public administrations be agile and effective and that politicians not get involved in brawls when the lives of so many people are at stake. On the other hand, solidarity with those affected is already a first victory against the feeling of absurdity that assails us: it is a way of showing that there is something stronger than the blind blow of misfortune, and that is why it must be emphasized that many, many , have dedicated their best efforts from the first moment to rescuing, providing food and shelter to those who needed it. We are facing a long-distance race because it will take a lot of time and a lot of effort for reconstruction, and we need to find a word of hope that does not disappear, as the Archbishop of Valencia, Enrique Benavent, has said. We know that solidarity, in the long run, falters, and needs to be sustained by something more than good feelings. Standard Related News Si Llocnou, the smallest town that has not yet reached official aid José Ramón Navarro-Pareja «Not here “No one has come, other than neighbors and volunteers, neither the Government nor the authorities remember us,” the neighbors cry. Can we affirm that life is a good, that it is not a mere illusion that can be destroyed by a blow of wind or water? Life is given to us, the seasons and the biosphere are ordered to make it possible, and that is why we feel it is radically unfair that a destructive chance has the last word on our existence. But does he have it? Everyone is invited to respond. In Genesis we hear the great proclamation that “everything is very good,” yet the entire story and our own personal experience teach us that the world is wounded, that its original order is altered. In any case, we do not know why the suffering of the innocent occurs, so many whose stories we are learning these days. Faith is not a kind of recipe book to solve all problems, faith is a relationship with God within which all questions find space and can be sustained. Among many testimonies, I include that of the parish priest of Letur (Albacete): « I ask God to give us strength, hope, to know how to be, to know how to console and to be united, to live this moment with each other to be able to move forward, knowing that if there is someone who does not get off the cross, it is Jesus Christ. Humbly, with our eyes fixed on the recumbent Christ of Paiporta, with his face full of mud, we Christians can say that the last word on our life is not given to a blind destiny but to the God who became flesh, who died for us and He resurrected. Who welcomes those who have died in his love, who sustains us to heal, repair and rebuild. And we cannot steal this certainty from our fellow citizens.
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