While the words of the angels to the women who had come to the sepulcher, “Why are you seeking among the dead him who is alive?”, we have had news of the passing away of Pope Francis from this world to the Father. He had begun his Petrine ministry presenting himself as Bishop of Rome and as Bishop of Rome he concluded it, with the benediction “urbi et orbi”, to the city and to the world.
Letter to friends n. 77 - Christmas 2024
These lines reach you at the heart of Advent, dawn of a new liturgical year and sunset of a civil year. If the scanning of social time leads us more and more often — and with increasing anxiety — to ask "what future awaits us?", church time brings Christians back to an inverted question: "But do we really await the return of the Risen Lord?" and to the consequent question: "What do we do with this time? What do we do with this waiting?". It is in the light of this awareness that we would like to read with you some of the connotations that Christian waiting takes on in the calendar year that is now opening.