Dear friends, peace be with you all from Jerusalem!
Celebrating the Holy Eucharist before this city of God, in the communion of the one Bread and the one Chalice, we ask ourselves how we can strengthen and share our prayer to be a Church (assembly) that intercedes as at the beginning "one heart and one soul" (Acts 4,32) making ourselves responsible for each other and for all humanity. Because of the pandemic around the world, the time we live is one of uncertainty and fear. Many are the people who hope that everything can go back to the way it was before and some behave irresponsibly, as if nothing had happened and everything was an invention. There are many profiteers of this chaotic situation who carry on their ideology to increase their interest. Others instead have "fear of fear" and have isolated themselves in a cold solitude devoid of affections and constructive encounters.If we were to use an image representative of this situation, it seems to see a multitude of lonely people, divided among themselves and sad, a reality that moves away from God’s desire to see us joyful, united among us and in communion with Him. We do not think we are presumptuous, but rather we are certain that from this Holy Place, unique in the world, we are called to welcome and "spill" like a mystical beneficial rain, his Blood on the whole world, on every city, on every house, on every person, so that we may meet again, in spiritual communion, together, in raising a single "thank you" to the Lord for imploring his help and salvation. Alone, we can do nothing! We invite everyone to find ways to live this intention of prayer, to be a small oasis in which the Lord is implored, sought, loved, welcomed with trust and availability. Let's do it in the small but important reality in which we meet: in the same sunset, in the same prayer, in the breaking of the Bread, in the same struggle, in the same hope… we meet, in the certainty that the Lord himself and Mary Most Holy Assumed in Heaven, are with us. Amen.
