Pope Francis has reminded those affected by the Dana de Valencia on Thursday and those who have worked on rescue tasks. It has been during an encounter with Spanish priests and seminarians. Referring to tragedy, he has told them that «We cannot take suffering lightly of people and try to comfort them with phrases of circumstances and goodism ».
The Bishop of Rome was meeting with a pilgrimage formed by about 150 priests and seminarians of the Spanish dioceses of Valencia, Orihuela-Alicante, Segorbe-Castellón, Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza.
In a message, with double registration, social and spiritual, the Pope has recognized before them that “it is not easy for me to express my feelings, thinking about surely atypical Christmas with that experience that ‘God has become mud’ in you ». He referred to the consequences of the Dana, the environmental catastrophe that on October 29 that caused extreme and flooded rains in the Valencian Community, but also in areas of Castilla La Mancha, Aragon, Catalonia and Andalusia.
It is “a pain and a mourning that despite its hardness opens us to hope because, forcing us to touch back and leave behind everything that seemed to sustain us, it allows us to go further. It is not something we can do alone, it is immense darkness that you have lived and are living, ”he added. «I think of the selfless help of so many people, in the eyes full of people’s delivery, who have been able to illuminate us with the tenderness of God. And in this field you are called to work, ”you have suggested to the priests and future priests.
According to Francisco, the lesson of what happened is that “the Dana is not an atypical phenomenon that we simply expect does not happen again, but the extrapolation of what every human being lives that faces a loss and feels alone, misplaced, needed support to continue ». As priests, his mission is to bring concrete hope to those who are affected. «I once said that ‘Esperanza’ is not ‘optimism. ‘Optimism’ is a light expression, hope is something else, ”he clarified.
«We cannot take the suffering of people lightly and try to comfort them with phrases of circumstances and goodism. Our hope has a name, Jesus, that God who has not felt disgust from our mud and who, instead of saving us from mud, has made mud for us ».
As seminarians and priests, he has told them that they must “be another Christ,” in this case, “to make mud in the crying of the people. And when you see the broken people, because in Valencia there are broken people, who have lost their lives to pieces, replace you pieces, pieces, of yourself, as Christ does in the Eucharist ». “Please, Dense free, because everything they have received for freeDo not forget freeness, ”he said.
Trump telegram
On the other hand, this morning Francisco has sent a condolence telegram to the president of the USA Donald Trump, when the death of at least 67 people is confirmed after the clash of a commercial plane and a military helicopter in Washington.
“After knowing the news of the collision in full flight express my spiritual closeness to all those affected by this tragedy,” writes the Pope. «By entrusting the souls of the deceased to the loving mercy of God Almighty, I offer my deepest condolences to families that now cry the loss of a love People of the Nation The divine blessings of comfort and strength, ”adds the pontiff, in a message sent very few hours after the accident.
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