The Archbishop of Seville (Spain), Mons. Ángel Saiz Meneses, said that the love of God is the answer to the question about the meaning of suffering, in the homily of the Mass he presided over on the day of the Virgin of Lourdes.
According to the Archdiocese of Sevillethe Eucharist was the jubilee celebration of the Health Pastoral Agents, headed by the Diocesan delegate, P. Manuel Sánchez Heredia, who concelebrated the Mass along with Fr. Manuel Soria, responsible for Jubileo 2025 in Seville.
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In his homily, the Archbishop referred to the message of Pope Francis for the World Day of the patient, which was also held yesterday on the day of the Virgin of Lourdes, patron of the sick; And he encouraged to meditate on the presence of God, especially with the people who suffer.
“In the midst of suffering the human being wonders why, and needs answers, he needs meaning,” said Mons. Saiz.
“Faith is helpful to find this meaning, this path. To find a valid answer there is no other way than to approach God, ”said the Spanish prelate.
In that sense, the archbishop stressed that “God’s love is also the answer to the question about the meaning of suffering.”
“That this jubilee year is the occasion for the encounter with Christ and with the Church; That we let ourselves be carried by the hand of Mary Most Holy, which leads us to meet God, ”he urged.
The archbishop also gave time to thank all those who, in Seville, offer “their time and heart” in the Pastoral of Health, which is so necessary in these times.
“You present God’s love in hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, sanatoriums, outpatients, residences, in homes … carrying out Jesus’ program, the good Samaritan,” said the archbishop.
On February 11, the Catholic Church celebrated the 33rd World Day of the patient, a date that invites us to reflect on the importance of compassion in moments of fragility and disease, a date instituted by Pope San Juan Paul II in 1992.
In his message for this 2025, framed in the celebrations of Jubileo 2025, Pope Francis highlights the biblical event: Hope does not disappoint and makes us strong in tribulation (Rm 5,5).
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.