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"Daily in our cities and our countries"...
Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 12:24 The Roman Pontiff's address to the people before this morning's recitation of the Angelus, reflecting on the lessons at Holy Mass, including the following lamentation over our mutual inaction in the face of the suffering of our brothers and sisters:
... The newness, the novelty, the 'newsrworthiness' of Jesus is essentially in the fact that He 'fills up' the commandments with the love of God, with the power of the Holy Spirit who dwells in Him. And we, drawn up in and through faith in Christ, we open ourselves, by the action of the Holy Spirit, which makes us capable of living the divine love. Therefore, every precept of the law comes to be experienced as true, as necessities of love, and all are rearticulated in a single commandment: love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. "The fulllness of the law is love," writes St. Paul (Rom 13:10). In the face of this exigency, the pitiful case, for example, of the four Roma children who died last week on the outskirts of this city, burned in their little shack, requires asking whether a more fraternal society, united in solidarity, more agreeable to the demands of love, that is, more Christian, could not have avoided such tragedy. And this question applies to many other sorrowful events, more or less well known, that occur daily in our cities and our countries....
I don't have the courage to search for the news of the tragedy his Holiness alluded to; it is a beautiful day, I'm warm and secure in my little room, enjoy what commonly passes for 'good health', and face the prospect of many more days of the same conditions.
