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War is a madness
War is a madness, so the Pope in Redipuglia full text of homily
(The military memorial Redipuglia is a monumental military cemetery located in Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, built during the fascist era and dedicated to the memory of more than 100,000 Italian soldiers died during the First World War.)
"After contemplating the beauty of the landscape of this entire area, where men and women work carrying forward their family, where children play and older are dreaming ... finding myself here, in this place, near this cemetery, I just have to say: war is a madness.
While God leads His creation, and we humans are called to collaborate with his work, the war destroys. It also destroys what God has created more beautiful: the human being. The war disrupts everything, even the bond between the brothers. The war is insane, his development plan is the destruction: wanting to develop through the destruction!
The cupidity, intolerance, ambition to power ... are the reasons why the decision ahead of war, and these reasons are often justified by an ideology; but first there is passion, there is the impulse distorted. Ideology is a justification, and when there is no ideology, there is Cain's answer: "To me that care about my brother?" To me ... who cares. "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Gen 4.9). The war does not look at at anybody: old people and children, moms, dads ... "what does it matter to me?".
Above the entrance of this cemetery, hovers mocking the motto of the war: "To me, who cares?". All these people, who lie here, they had their projects, they had their dreams ... but their lives have been shattered. Because? Because humanity has said: "to me...what does it matter?".
Even today, after the second failure of another World War, maybe we can talk of a Third World War fought "in pieces," with crimes, massacres, destruction ... To be honest, the first page of the newspapers should have the title: "to me what does it matter? ". Cain would say, "Am I my brother's keeper?".
This attitude is exactly the opposite of what Jesus asks of us in the Gospel. We have heard: He is the smallest of the brothers: He, the King, the Judge of the world, He is the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the sick, the prisoner ... Who takes care of his brother, enter into joy of the Lord; those who do not, who with his omission says: "To me what does it matter?", is out.
Here and the next cemetery there are many victims. Today we remember them. There is weeping, there is mourning, there is pain. And from here we remember the victims of all wars. Even today the victims are many ... How is this possible? E 'possible because even today there are interests behind the scenes, geopolitical plans greed for money and power, and there is the arms industry, which seems to be so important! And these planners of terror, these organizers of the battle, as well as business owners of the weapons, they have written in their hearts: "To me what does it matter?".
It 's wise to recognize the errors, prove sorrow, repent, ask for forgiveness and cry. With that "what does it matter to me?" In their hearts the profiteers of war, perhaps earning so much, but their corrupt heart has lost the ability to cry. Cain did not cry. He could not cry. The shadow of Cain covers us today here in this cemetery. You see here. You see in history from 1914 to the present day. It is also seen in our day.
With the heart of a son, brother, father, I ask all of you and for all of us to conversion of heart: switch from "what does it matter to me?" to crying. For all the fallen of the "senseless slaughter", for all the victims of the madness of war, all the time. The weeping. Brothers, humanity needs to cry, and this is the hour of weeping. "
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4OIdszQM0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GBynu7RjDE
War is a madness
War is a madness, so the Pope in Redipuglia full text of homily
(The military memorial Redipuglia is a monumental military cemetery located in Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, built during the fascist era and dedicated to the memory of more than 100,000 Italian soldiers died during the First World War.)
"After contemplating the beauty of the landscape of this entire area, where men and women work carrying forward their family, where children play and older are dreaming ... finding myself here, in this place, near this cemetery, I just have to say: war is a madness.
While God leads His creation, and we humans are called to collaborate with his work, the war destroys. It also destroys what God has created more beautiful: the human being. The war disrupts everything, even the bond between the brothers. The war is insane, his development plan is the destruction: wanting to develop through the destruction!
The cupidity, intolerance, ambition to power ... are the reasons why the decision ahead of war, and these reasons are often justified by an ideology; but first there is passion, there is the impulse distorted. Ideology is a justification, and when there is no ideology, there is Cain's answer: "To me that care about my brother?" To me ... who cares. "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Gen 4.9). The war does not look at at anybody: old people and children, moms, dads ... "what does it matter to me?".
Above the entrance of this cemetery, hovers mocking the motto of the war: "To me, who cares?". All these people, who lie here, they had their projects, they had their dreams ... but their lives have been shattered. Because? Because humanity has said: "to me...what does it matter?".
Even today, after the second failure of another World War, maybe we can talk of a Third World War fought "in pieces," with crimes, massacres, destruction ... To be honest, the first page of the newspapers should have the title: "to me what does it matter? ". Cain would say, "Am I my brother's keeper?".
This attitude is exactly the opposite of what Jesus asks of us in the Gospel. We have heard: He is the smallest of the brothers: He, the King, the Judge of the world, He is the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the sick, the prisoner ... Who takes care of his brother, enter into joy of the Lord; those who do not, who with his omission says: "To me what does it matter?", is out.
Here and the next cemetery there are many victims. Today we remember them. There is weeping, there is mourning, there is pain. And from here we remember the victims of all wars. Even today the victims are many ... How is this possible? E 'possible because even today there are interests behind the scenes, geopolitical plans greed for money and power, and there is the arms industry, which seems to be so important! And these planners of terror, these organizers of the battle, as well as business owners of the weapons, they have written in their hearts: "To me what does it matter?".
It 's wise to recognize the errors, prove sorrow, repent, ask for forgiveness and cry. With that "what does it matter to me?" In their hearts the profiteers of war, perhaps earning so much, but their corrupt heart has lost the ability to cry. Cain did not cry. He could not cry. The shadow of Cain covers us today here in this cemetery. You see here. You see in history from 1914 to the present day. It is also seen in our day.
With the heart of a son, brother, father, I ask all of you and for all of us to conversion of heart: switch from "what does it matter to me?" to crying. For all the fallen of the "senseless slaughter", for all the victims of the madness of war, all the time. The weeping. Brothers, humanity needs to cry, and this is the hour of weeping. "
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4OIdszQM0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GBynu7RjDE