Cardinals Zuppi and Pizzaballa to young people: peace is possible

Antonella Palermo – Cité du Vatican

“Feel welcomed this evening by the whole church. In addition, which contemplates with joy, benevolence and confidence, the freshness and spontaneity of your lives”. However, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi. In addition, president of the Italian episcopal conference, presided over the rite of the profession of faith before 40,000 young people gathered for their jubilee in a Saint-Pierre Place overflowing with energy. Nevertheless, It is a universal cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people: family that is gathered at the heart of Rome. Therefore, and the exhortation is to feel “All, all, all” included. For example, The cardinal explicitly refers to Pope Francis with these words: “I believe that Pope Francis blesses us from heaven”. Nevertheless, The afternoon was warmly animated by musical interludes. Therefore, biblical readings, testimonies of faith, but also, and above all, by a spiritual proximity to the many places where war destroys souls, bodies and homes. Nevertheless, “Humanity must end the war. Meanwhile, otherwise war will end humanity”, underlined the Italian cardinal in his homily, after the projection of a video message from the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and the reading of the Gospel according to Matthew, in which Jesus confides the keys of the Kingdom of God to the Apostle Peter. Furthermore, Because joy is tinged with apprehension for those who see it disappear every day because cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people: of conflicts. For example, underline in unison the two cardinals, distant but intimately close in their prayer to God.

Let’s disarmer our hearts! – Cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people:

The president of the Italian bishops evokes the “Cross stupidly erected by men who make weapons to kill”. who “Destroy what supports life, even hospitals”. The church. he deplores, “Is under the cross, eyes filled with tears and the heart injured by immense suffering, unbearable for a mother as she should always be for all humanity.” Today, so many insane massacres and so many wars are underway, he notes, adding: “Just go to the military cemeteries.” Matteo Zuppi then recalls the words spoken by Leon XIV shortly after his election. when he called for peace “Disarmed and disarming”. Hence the call of the Archbishop of Bologna: “Let us disarm our hearts to disarm the hearts. the hands of a violent world, to heal its scars, to cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people: prevent new conflicts!”

Always defend life – Cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people:

We live in “A world that again accepts as normal the idea of one against the other. of one without the other; which, stupidly, is not afraid of the unimaginable force of nuclear weapons. ” It is the reflection that Cardinal Zappi proposed to young people. concerned about the logic of cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people: oppression which today seems to have become absolutely “normal”. He adheres to the invitation of Cardinal Pizzaballa. from the Holy Land, to be peaceful craftsmen “To defend the life from start to finish, for everyone, without distinction, always granting each dignity and attention”. He then continues a series of questions in the face of the evidence of the overabundance of arms. revenge, “Bitter and excruciating loneliness”resignation, mental confusion. It also addresses the phenomenon of those who “Walk with a knife”.

That our communities become houses of peace

The cardinal hopes that the communities will become houses of peace. “Small but never mediocre, large because humble, free because linked by love, capable of working for each other and thinking together”. Because. he explains, even the smallest communities are always large if the Lord is in them and we can do great things. There follow the applause nourished by the crowd. the cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people: invitation to profess our faith, individually and collectively, to support each other, to draw on fraternity and friendship. To love each other, he concludes, “Because love is repairing, it repairs everything, always, much more than you think.”

Cardinal Pizzaballa: Valuing the “we” rather than “me”

Matteo Zuppi echoes the call of the Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa. who evoked the situation in the Holy Land in a video message, expressing the complexity of the moment, the difficulty of living in concrete terms “Inimaginable” food, medication, and saying that hunger is not a “theory”. However. it is precisely in the face of the ravages of violence in “An endless night”says Cardinal Franciscan, that the gaze of faith is necessary: “The pain is there and cannot be denied”, says the patriarch, but it is precisely in this pain that we must bring comfort and consolation. He cites the example of many people who have cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people: become real “Light sources”especially in Gaza. Israel – where I mobilize to help the population of the Gaza Strip is often a source of misunderstanding – and throughout the Holy Land. “In this incredible ocean of mistrust. hatred”, underlines the Cardinal, many are not in their arms, who focusing on “We” and not on “Me and no one else”.

Coaling hope. peace is not just a slogan

A desire to associate emerges, underlines Pierbattista Pizzaballa: priests, tireless volunteers of all confessions. These are the signs of a jubilee that seems far from the experience lived in the Middle East. However. these people are like headlights; It is necessary to turn to them to prepare the moment when it will be necessary to rebuild the destroyed buildings and to sew the torn and disorganized social fabric. “As a Church. we must be present, in the midst of so many difficulties and misunderstandings, in dialogue, discussion, even the dialectic if necessary”recalls Cardinal. “We must be able. like the first apostles, like Pierre, to bring a word, a constructed language, which opens horizons, which creates opportunities of trust.”

What is necessary are concrete gestures of empathy and proximity, “Bathed in the grace cardinals zuppi pizzaballa young people: of God”. Peace is still possible, concludes the video message. You just have to want it, wherever we are. The Patriarch sends its thanks to those who work to provide their support for distance from this brutal war period: it manifests itself in a very «tangible»notes the patriarch. who invites everyone to Jerusalem at the end of the war. Soon, he hopes.