weekly Letter from the Archbishop of Oviedo
for Sunday March 27, 2011
Japan
amazing ... This a beautiful book titled P. Pedro Arrupe, Jesuit who lived and saw in person when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Naghasaki during the Second World War. A Japanese incredible what came as a result of wartime destruction always absurd. But amazing everything also raised as moral rearmament and solidarity among those people at St. Francis Xavier brought the light of the Gospel.
again has returned to East incredible this noble people, when you had to cope with a natural catastrophe like an earthquake and a tsunami that was not on the trade agenda, market and technology as leading industrialized country. It almost seems ironic counterpoint, but has highlighted the fragility of our human condition, which puts us well when we bare our security high-end Japanese techniques, or when we are naked and without belonging to any technology a pariah of the third world as the forgotten people of Haiti.
Crying innocent children, the terror of adults, the powerlessness which surpasses and overwhelms us, suddenly we have removed the secondary troubles, which always becomes less important when the things that are of really get into a fatal question. Yes, the scenes that we saw and heard made us hostages in solidarity with the information to peek without macabre curiosity to something terrible, when we imposed a humble realism that makes us look at life differently, as otherwise , which in so many ways that look is light and becomes sought in prayer.
Maybe we become used to so great tragedy if suddenly made so much common that could be repeated. And though we refuse to admit it, there are however cases that we have made repeated so insensitive to put his name to drama, to ask for the why, to retrace the paths wrong and leading to sail the good and truth .
Not only Japan these days, not only Haiti and many other places that suffer the thousand vicissitudes of proof by natural disasters, dictatorial madness by irresponsible and partisan policies, for selfish economies. But in the short biography of each person in the interpersonal relationship of our meager world, laws and policy options of a country, there also defines our way of seeing life. All of life: the unborn, of the growing uncertainty or safety, which has suffered setbacks or congratulations, the bursting of which sick or health, which fulfills years of age who finishes. All life is important to us with your name, your circumstances, age, home. And over all of life we \u200b\u200bwant to meet God's blessing.
the 25th of March is an important liturgical festival, we celebrate the Incarnation of God, when He became flesh in the womb of a woman pure virgin named Mary of Nazareth. It was another of the young to the life of God, and God's Yes to all men in the womb of Mary. Everything that affects the lives of people, whether at the time they are, belong to the people they belong to, are embedded in cultures or beliefs or any policies or economies, that life is not indifferent to God. We are his children, although many men and women do not recognize him as Father. Yes, there's always a reason to live. Life is amazing, incredibly beautiful even in its most harsh and dim, when God is allowed to cuddle and kiss through the pure hands and committed, through lips that tell us about your Good News.
Receive my love and blessing,
Br † Jesús Sanz Montes, OFM
Metropolitan Archbishop of Oviedo
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