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At Mass in Santa Marta, Francisco asks God to bless the nurses who at this time of the pandemic have been an example of heroism and in some cases have given their lives. In his homily, he affirms that the peace of Jesus is a free gift that is always open to others and gives the hope of heaven, which is the ultimate peace, while world peace is selfish, sterile and provisional.
VATICAN NEWS
Francisco presided over the mass at the Casa Santa Marta on Tuesday of the fifth week of Easter. In the introduction, remembering that he directed his thoughts to the nurses:
Today is nursing day. Yesterday I sent a message. Pray today for nurses, men, women, boys and girls who have this profession, which is more than a profession, it is a vocation, a dedication. May the Lord bless you. At this time of the pandemic, they gave an example of heroism and some gave their lives. Pray for nurses.
In the homily, the Pope commented on today’s Gospel (Jn 14,27-31) in which Jesus says to his disciples: «I leave you peace, I give you my peace. Not as the world gives it, I give it to you ». (Listen to the report in the voice of the Pope)
“The Lord – said the Pope – before leaving, greets his and gives him the gift of peace, the peace of the Lord.” “It is not about universal peace, that peace without wars that we all want to always be there, but the peace of the heart, the peace of the soul, the peace that each one of us has within us. And the Lord gives it but, underline, not as the world gives it. ”These are different peaces.
“The world – observed Francisco – gives you inner peace”, the peace of your life, is living with your heart in peace, “as your possession, as something of yours and isolates you from others” and “it is his purchase: I have peace And without realizing it, you close yourself to that peace, it is a little peace for you “that calms you and makes you happy, but” you sleep a little, anesthetize yourself and make you stay yourself “: it is” a little ” selfish. “Thus the world gives peace. And it is” an expensive peace because you must continually change the instruments of peace: when one thing excites you, one thing gives you peace, then it ends and you have to find another … It is expensive because it is temporary and sterile. “
“Instead, the peace that Jesus gives is something else. It is a peace that sets you in motion, does not isolate you, sets you in motion, makes you go to others, creates communities, creates communication. The world is expensive, that of Jesus is free, it is free: the peace of the Lord is a gift from the Lord. It is fruitful, it always takes you forward. An example from the Gospel that makes me think what world peace is like is that gentleman who had barns “and he thought in building other warehouses and finally living in silence. “Your fool says God, you will die tonight.” “It is an immanent peace that does not open the door to the beyond. Instead, the peace of the Lord” is “open to heaven, it is open to heaven. It is a fruitful peace that opens and also brings others with you to Heaven.”
The Pope invites us to see within ourselves what our peace is: do we find peace in well-being, in possession and in many other things or do I find peace as a gift from the Lord? “Do I have to pay for peace or do I get it free from the Lord? How is my peace When I miss something, do I get angry? This is not the Lord’s peace. This is one of the tests. I am calm in my peace, do I fall asleep? It is not from the Lord. Am I at peace and want to communicate it to others and continue with something? That is the Lord’s peace. Even in bad and difficult times, does that peace remain with me? It’s from the lord. And the peace of the Lord is fruitful for me too because it is full of hope, that is, look at Heaven ”.
Pope Francis says he received a letter yesterday from a good priest who told him that he speaks little of heaven, that he should speak more about it: “And he is right, he is right. That is why today I wanted to underline this: that peace, this that Jesus gives us, is peace for now and for the future. It is to start living Heaven, with the fruitfulness of Heaven. It is not anesthesia. The other, yes: you anesthetize yourself with the things of the world and when the dose of this anesthesia ends it takes another and another and another … This is a definitive, fruitful and contagious peace too. He is not narcissistic, because he always looks at the Lord. The other one looks at you, he’s a bit narcissistic. “
“May the Lord – concludes the Pope – give us this peace full of hope, that makes us fruitful, makes us communicative with others, that creates community and that always contemplates the definitive peace of Paradise”.
Pope Francis ended the celebration with adoration and Eucharistic blessing. Before leaving the chapel dedicated to the Holy Spirit, theMarian antiphon “Regina caeli“ sung in the Easter season:
Regína caeli laetáre, alelúia.
Quia quem merúisti portáre, alelúia.
Resurréxit, sicut dixit, alelúia.
Ora pro nobis Deum, Germany.
(Queen of heaven, rejoice, hallelujah.
Christ, whom you carried in your womb, hallelujah,
he is risen, as promised, hallelujah.
Pray to the Lord for us, hallelujah.)
(UPDATE AT 7.45)
