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This is the night in which God says to everyone: There is hope for you too!
" Hope, despite everything. Because hope is God's promise to be welcomed here and now, in this earth that suffers and groans .
This was the declaration of Pope Francis, who started the celebration of Christmas Eve mass with the opening of the Holy Door, giving strong messages: " Brothers and sisters, this is the Jubilee, this is the time of hope! It invites us to rediscover the joy of encountering God, calls us to spiritual renewal and engages us in the transformation of the world, so that this becomes a truly jubilee time: it becomes for our mother Earth, disfigured by the logic of profit; to be done for the poorest countries, burdened by unjust debts; for all those who are captives of old and new slavery ".
He said that everyone should feel the gift and the commitment to bring hope where it has been lost. According to him, Christmas should serve to bring hope where life is wounded, in broken dreams, in the long and empty days of prisoners, in the narrow and cold rooms of the poor, in places desecrated by war. and violence.
Without specific references, he repeated what he said a few days ago about Gaza: " There is so much desolation. Let's think about wars, children with machine guns, bombs in schools and hospitals ."
The Holy Father asks us to give up the wrong things and have the courage to change them. The Pope said that we should learn from the shepherds who, in the Gospel story of Christmas, "went without delay" after the angel's call: " This is the sign to rediscover the lost hope, to renew it within us, to plant it that in the desolations of our time ".
" The hope that arises this night does not tolerate the idleness of the sedentary and the laziness of those who are settled in their comforts. It is incompatible with the quiet life of those who do not raise their voice against the evil and injustice done to the poorest... This is the night in which the door of hope was opened wide to the world; this is the night in which God says to everyone: there is hope for you too! The infinitely great Christmas night became small; the divine light has shone in the midst of the darkness of the world; the glory of heaven appeared on earth, in the smallness of a child. Thus, if God comes, even when our heart resembles a poor manger, then we can say: hope is not dead, hope is alive and envelops our lives forever. The jubilee was opened to give everyone the hope of the Gospel, the hope of love, the hope of forgiveness ," he said. /Pamphlet
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