Argentina: Cardenal denounces “shameful complicity” between those who promote online betting

The Archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina), Cardinal Ángel Rossi, warned about the “shameful complicity” between businessmen and political leaders who promote online betting disguised as entertainment.

In his homily at Sunday Mass broadcast by Chain 3Cardinal Rossi reflected on the first sign of the Lord at the wedding at Cana, and compared the empty jars with the emptiness in the heart that is produced by the lack of love, friendships, meaning, but also by the environment and the “consumer offers”, drugs, violence and gambling that are presented as a “magic solution”.

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The archbishop assured that in Cana, “Mary realizes a lack: that of wine. A look that is not fooled by appearance, that perceives what is essential, perceives what is missing. It is a very maternal look,” he noted, “and invites the servants to listen to the word of Jesus: ‘Do whatever He tells you.’”

The Lord makes our effort a miracle

With this gesture, the Virgin “proposes to you what has ultimately been her own life, since she decided that the word of God would be fulfilled in it, when God spoke to her at the Annunciation through the angel.”

“They went, he says, and filled the jars to the brim,” the cardinal recounted, encouraging people to ask for this grace: “May we, as far as it depends on us, be men and women who dare to fill the jars to the brim.” because “the effort we put into it, the Lord makes it a miracle.”

In that sense, he encouraged the faithful to look into the jar of their heart and realize that it is empty, to be able to ask themselves: “What is the wine that we are missing in our world? The wine of peace? The wine of tenderness? The wine of faith? The wine of hope and love? The wine of truth?”

Meditate on the voids in our lives

“We are invited to meditate on as many voids as the jars of Cana that there are in our lives, in the world and in our lives too. Empty of love, empty of friendships, empty of the meaning of life, of what we lack to be happy, to be full. The emptiness of having banished the Lord from our lives, and the other emptinesses,” he listed.

With the focus on social problems, he continued: “The emptiness of the world’s consumerist offerings, the emptiness of drugs, the emptiness of violence, the emptiness that remains in the hearts and pockets of those who are seduced by desperation. for the magical solution of gambling or online betting, offered under the guise of entertainment by leaders and businessmen in shameful complicity.”

“I hope we become aware of these voids, those of our own hearts and those caused by the frivolity of the environment. And let’s tell María, because María always realizes our gaps, what we lack,” he encouraged.

Choose between vinegar and good wine

Likewise, he called to stay under the gaze of Jesus and the Virgin, and there recognize and thank “everything that in your life resembles wine, what dilates you and encourages you, the people and everything that gives a sense of celebration. in our lives.”

“Our life would have to be something like going with Mary and the servants to fill the jars with water to the brim, so that Jesus could change it for us into wine,” he considered, “but then being able to go and serve our family, our people, with the happy face of one who has good wine to give, and not with the sour face.”

“I decide whether to live on vinegar or try to make my life a good wine,” he said, encouraging people to pray and work “to be, too, good wine for our brothers.”

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