Fr. Cantalamessa: "Violence is failure" Christ did not come with the blood of others, but with His own. He did not place his own sins on the shoulders of others, he took the sins of others on his own.…More
Fr. Cantalamessa: "Violence is failure"
Christ did not come with the blood of others, but with His own. He did not place his own sins on the shoulders of others, he took the sins of others on his own." The preacher to the Papal Household, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, underlined this during the celebration of the Passion of the Lord. In this view, therefore, "The sacrifice of Christ contains a pressing message for today's world, "which on one hand condemns violence, but on the other, favors and exalts it". "We tear our clothes in the face of certain violent acts," he described,"but we don't realize that through this publicity, this prepares the ground with an appetite for news described in the most crude way, and for the spread of such films ...
Christ did not come with the blood of others, but with His own. He did not place his own sins on the shoulders of others, he took the sins of others on his own." The preacher to the Papal Household, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, underlined this during the celebration of the Passion of the Lord. In this view, therefore, "The sacrifice of Christ contains a pressing message for today's world, "which on one hand condemns violence, but on the other, favors and exalts it". "We tear our clothes in the face of certain violent acts," he described,"but we don't realize that through this publicity, this prepares the ground with an appetite for news described in the most crude way, and for the spread of such films ...