Lent Is A Time Of Grace, A

Our World Needs Good And Strong Families.

Today Children Are Disposed Of Because There Is No Food Or Because They Are Killed Before Being Born – Children Are Discarded. The Elderly Are Disposed Of, Well, Because They Are Useless, They Do Not Produce, Neither Children Nor The Elderly Produce; Then, With More Or Less Sophisticated Systems They Are Slowly Abandoned And Now, As In This Crisis It Is Necessary To Recover Some Equilibrium, We Are Witnessing A Third Very Painful Discarding –the Discarding Of Young People. Millions Of Young People… Are Discarded From Work, Are Unemployed.

How Often We Forget To Dedicate Ourselves To That Which Truly Matters! We Forget That We Are Children Of God.

If God, In The Christmas Mystery, Reveals Himself Not As One Who Remains On High And Dominates The Universe, But As The One Who Bends Down, Descends To The Little And Poor Earth, It Means That, To Be Like Him, We Should Not Put Ourselves Above Others, But Indeed Lower Ourselves, Place Ourselves At The Service Of Others, Become Small With The Small And Poor With The Poor. It Is Regrettable To See A Christian Who Does Not Want To Lower Himself, Who Does Not Want To Serve. A Christian Who Struts About Is Ugly: This Is Not Christian, It Is Pagan.

Giving Primacy To God Means Having The Courage To Say ‘no’ To Evil, ‘no’ To Violence, ‘no’ To Oppression, To Live A Life In Service Of Others And Which Fosters Lawfulness And The Common Good. When A Person Discovers God, The True Treasure, He Abandons A Selfish Lifestyle And Seeks To Share With Others The Charity Which Comes From God. He Who Becomes A Friend Of God, Loves His Brothers And Sisters, Commits Himself To Safeguarding Their Life And Their Health, And Also To Respecting The Environment And Nature.