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“No one can be saved alone”, is the title of the 56th message for the world day of peace written by Pope Francis.
After the night of the pandemic, which destabilized our lives and our habits, says the Pontiff, we are called to ask ourselves: What did we learn from the pandemic? What new paths should we follow to cast off the shackles of our old habits, to be better prepared, to dare new things? What signs of life and hope can we see, to help us move forward and try to make our world a better place?
Questions we should answer together, continues Pope Francis, because “the greatest lesson we learned from Covid-19 was the realization that we all need one another. That our greatest and yet most fragile treasure is our shared humanity as brothers and sisters, children of God. And that none of us can be saved alone. Consequently, we urgently need to join together in seeking and promoting the universal values that can guide the growth of this human fraternity”.
On the other hand, Covid has also allowed us to make positive discoveries:“a chastened return to humility, a rethinking of certain consumeristic excesses, and a renewed sense of solidarity that has made us more sensitive to the suffering of others and more responsive to their needs. We can also think of the efforts, which in some cases proved truly heroic, made by all those people who worked tirelessly to help everyone emerge from the crisis and its turmoil as best they could”.
The Pope continues by saying that after Covid another disaster has arrived, the war in Ukraine which joins the many conflicts already underway. “While a vaccine has been found for Covid-19, suitable solutions have not yet been found for the war. Certainly, the virus of war is more difficult to overcome than the viruses that compromise our bodies, because it comes, not from outside of us, but from within the human heart corrupted by sin (cf. Gospel of Mark 7:17-23).
What then is being asked of us? First of all, to let our hearts be changed by our experience of the crisis, to let God, at this time in history, transform our customary criteria for viewing the world around us. We can no longer think exclusively of carving out space for our personal or national interests; instead, we must think in terms of the common good, recognizing that we belong to a greater community, and opening our minds and hearts to universal human fraternity”.
A new world will be possible only if we spend ourselves together, with an altruistic spirit inspired by God’s merciful love. Only in this way we will contribute to building the Kingdom of God, which is the Kingdom of love, justice and peace
