A young prelate called on the faithful to put an end to cold apathy, insensitivity and callousness, and get involved in the various issues the country is facing.
Lingayen Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, in an Easter Message, said that Easter is a feast of love, and that love made possible by Jesus’ resurrection should move us to action and get involved in all societal concerns.
He said that “we must prove that [Jesus] has indeed risen from the dead not by wise argumentations but showing that our lives have been changed by Jesus Christ.”
As Easter people, we must allow love to rule our life and say “goodbye to indifference and apathy, insensitivity and heartlessness, callousness and audacity,” Villegas said.
“The victory of Easter is the victory of the Greatest Lover of all who died that we may have fullness of life. We who are an Easter people must pour love into our bleeding world, bind the wounds of our society and bring it back to life—through love,” he said.
Spread values of Christ
The young prelate said there is a need to evangelize the areas of politics and economics, even as he urged the faithful to spread the values of Christ in these fields.
“The risen Lord pricks us to get involved in politics and make it a liberating not a corrupting kind of politics. The risen Lord urges us to bring Christian ethics to economics and put charity not profit as its overriding principle,” he said.
Act now!
Villegas also said the love that comes from the resurrection should move us out of complacency and reach out to the poor.
“Love takes responsibility. Love is rich in mercy. Love is kind. We cannot continue with Easter and continue to ignore the poor. It is not hard to meet the poor if we are not playing blind to their presence,” he said.
Lamenting the rise of criminality, abortion and drug use, the prelate urged for swift action to curb if not stop the menace, saying that “we cannot claim to be Easter people” and “remain insensitive” to the crisis.
“We cannot claim to be an Easter people and yet not do anything about the silent moans of aborted babies. We cannot sing Alleluia and remain insensitive to rising criminality, the commercialization of sex and the unabated availability of shabu in the neighbourhood,” the archbishop further added.
Stand up for life
The young prelate slammed the reproductive health bill, reiterating that “contraception a corruption of love and life” and is never the solution to the problem the country is currently facing.
“Obedience to the Ten Commandments is normal. Let us not extol impurity and ridicule virtue,” he said.
“Polluting the minds of children by teaching them sex without God cries to heaven for divine justice,” he added.
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