Pope Francis invited the members of the brotherhoods and brotherhoods of the world to live “crazy” or crazy with love for God, to bring it to the hearts of all and help those who need it.
This was indicated by the Holy Father in his message to the participants of the II International Congress of Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods, which takes place in Seville (Spain) from December 4 to 8 and in which some 2,000 participants from various countries gather.
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in the text published By the Vatican Press Office, Pope Francis affirms that “our life is a pilgrimage, a continuous season of penance that in the happy expression of Saint Manuel González we can propose as ‘a round trip, which begins, the going, in Christ and ends in the people, and begins in the people, the return, and ends in Christ.’”
“The evangelizing effectiveness of your proposal is in that birth of Christ, of the faith received as a family; of the experience of living and sharing that faith in brotherhood; of leaving together with your priests, from the parish, from the temple of your owner, towards the Holy Church Cathedral, together with the other Brotherhoods, manifesting that we are a People on the path towards God,” the Holy Father remarked.
After highlighting the beauty of seeing children participating, with their desire to grow up to carry an image of Jesus or the Virgin Mary in procession, Pope Francis highlighted that it is “the beauty of Christ that summons us, calls us to be brothers and encourages us to take Christ out into the streets, to take him to the people, so that everyone can contemplate his beauty.”
“Crazy with love”, “crazy with love for God”
After describing the joy of seeing people praying, doing some penance or accompanying a procession, the Pontiff commented that many also cry and, as Saint Manuel would say, they become “’crazy’, crazy about love. That’s what many who see them probably call them, thinking that such an effort makes no sense. But they are crazy with love for God, both with touching the hearts of their people, to bring them to God.”
In the procession, the Holy Father recalls, we advance towards some cathedral “to the Tabernacle where the Lord awaits us, before Him we present those hearts, so that God the Father can make the seed that we have tried to sow grow,” so that Jesus, in the street and in the churches “enter into all hearts.”
The Pope stressed the importance of helping and accompanying others, especially “men who suffer in body and soul.”
“Carrying the step of Christ in the procession, carrying the cross that the Lord proposes to us every day or carrying on our shoulders the brother who finds us prostrate on the road, as the Good Shepherd would do, is the same love, it is the same hidden charity that we find in the Tabernacle of the Holy Cathedral Church, and in that of our titular temple,” highlighted the Holy Father.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.