“Here everyone implores piety: for mercy, for mercy, for compassion, that they stop this war, to stop throwing … to stop killing people, to bomb video which he published on September 23.
“There are stories that are terrible, there are stories that are truly terrible. People are very distressed and implore God who dums, who has mercy on all, and also implore piety for all, so by the love of God this war ends,” the priest continued.
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In a video that begins with the reaction of the faithful, including a child who is scared by a nearby explosion, the priest regretted that in Gaza “the bombings follow, they are still very strong, they listen very strong, they arrive upset and sounds, despite the fact that some are 200, 300 meters, they are 500 meters, 700 meters places every day there are dead and more dead. ”
The priest of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), who came to Gaza for the first time in 2005, said that sometimes he no longer knows what to tell those who lose their loved ones: “I stay without words, we are left without words, tiredness also feels. There is no real advance.”
Father Romanelli also denounced that, so far, “there is no real advance” towards peace, to go “back with the bad decisions made” and it is not allowed to “rebuild people’s houses where they were born, their ancestors, where they have the right to be.”
After thanking the constants called the peace of Pope Leo XIV and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Argentine priest said that in the face All have been created by God “and all” are called to participate in the fullness of the life of the Holy Trinity. “
The priest encouraged to ask “Our Lady, the Virgen de los Dolores, who comforts so many people: there are people under the rubble, there are people who are injured under the rubble, there are people who are not injured but cannot leave, others who are in areas where the one who goes out is dead person. There are, according to civil defense data, many dead (…). Everything is very sad”.
After commenting that many are still in the parish because it is a shelter, and to tell that they barely went out yesterday to take a little air they had to run again to the temple for a bomb that fell close, the priest concluded his message by encouraging to “do good to all, and that God in his mercy took care of all and grants us the end of this war.”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.