Rome, 5 April (LaPresse) – "Death is always lying in wait. We see it present in injustices, in partisan selfishness, in the oppression of the poor, in the lack of attention towards the most vulnerable. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every quarter because of the abuses that crush the weakest, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys.” So said Pope Leo XIV in his homily at the Easter Mass in St Peter’s Square. “In this reality,” the Pope added, “the Lord’s Easter invites us to lift our gaze and open our hearts. It continues to nourish in our spirit and in the course of history the seed of the promised victory. It sets us in motion, like Mary Magdalene and the apostles, so that we may discover that Jesus’ tomb is empty, and therefore in every death we experience there is also room for a new life to spring forth. The Lord is alive and remains with us. Through glimmers of resurrection that break through the darkness, he entrusts our hearts to the hope that sustains us: the power of death is not the ultimate destiny of our lives. We are oriented once and for all towards fulfilment, for in the risen Christ we too have risen.”
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