The pain of a mother looking for her son.
The pain of the mother of Christ is the synthesis of all the pains of the world, of wars, of betrayals, of the hatred of men against men, of those men who betray themselves but first of all their mothers. She remembered him Pope francesco but in our readings the answer remains high Pope Benedict XVI gave to a little Japanese girl who had lost everything in Tsunami of 2011 ( 15 703 deaths). The Supreme Father’s response was published by Avvenire.
“Dear Elena, I greet you from the bottom of my heart. The same questions come to me too: why is it like this? Why do you have to suffer so much, while others live in comfort? And we don’t have the answers, but we know that Jesus suffered like you, innocent, that the true God who shows himself in Jesus is on your side. This seems very important to me, even if we have no answers, if the sadness remains: God is on your side, and you are sure that this will help you. And one day we may even understand why this was the case. At this moment it seems important to me that you know: ‘God loves me’, even if it seems that he does not know me. No, he loves me, he is on my side, and be sure that in the world, in the universe, many are with you, thinking of you, doing as much as they can something for you, to help you. And be aware that one day, I will understand that this suffering was not empty, it was not in vain, but that there is a good plan, a plan of love behind it. It is no coincidence, rest assured, we are with you, with all the Japanese children who suffer, we want to help you with prayer, with our actions and you are sure that God helps you. And in this sense we pray together that light may come to you as soon as possible.”
TO Teramo the Procession of the Desolata represents one of the oldest sacred rites in Abruzzo, in the beginning it started from the church, now non-existent, of San Giacomo then Sant’Agostino.
It was 1260.
Recollection, reflection, pain, redemption, hope and prayer.
