Pope: “We have drifted into a desert of godlessness”
The Pope today:
“Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today – when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode.
“Everything in public life risks being desacralised – persons, places, pledges, prayers, practices, words, sacred writings, religious formulae, symbols, ceremonies. Our life together is being increasingly secularised.
“Religious life grows diffident. Thus we see the most momentous matters placed among trifles, and trivialities glorified.
“Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.’
More:
“May we never question or mock serious things in life like a cynic.
“Allow us not to drift into the desert of godlessness. Enable us to perceive you in the gentle breeze, see you in street corners, love you in the unborn child…
“There are societies too that are thoughtless about their future. Christ must be weeping for their children.”
Don’t worry, he’ll be more positive Sunday. And about the exact content of his message, I think that many readers of this blog would agree with him. At least to some (significant) degree.
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Don’t worry, he’ll be more positive Sunday.
Yes, we Catholics are very big on pausing in the darkness before we celebrate the light of Easter. The cnadles in our sanctuaries are unlit right now.
I would agree with the sentiment; however, the word drifted implies that the movement is merely incidental, which is not the case.