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For its present, we resume the homily of Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical House, in the celebration of Good Friday. In his message, he recognizes as a factor of division within the Church today, putting above the religious and ecclesial choice, the political option that defends an ideology, therefore forgets the meaning and duty of obedience in the Church. “We must learn from the gospel and the example of Jesus. There was a strong political polarization around him. There were four parties: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Herodians and the Zelotas. Jesus did not align himself with any of them and resisted vigorously the attempt to drag him to one side or the other. The early Christian community faithfully followed him in this election. This is an example especially for shepherds who must be shepherds of the whole flock, not a single part of it. Therefore, they are the first to have to take a serious examination of conscience and wonder where they are taking their flock: whether by their side, or next to Jesus.”

hallelujah! Christ lives, the Lord is risen! It is the cry that resonates from the Easter Vigil throughout the universal Church. It is the expression of joy and hope of all Christians who celebrate with joy and joy the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, their victory over sin and death, their transition from death to life. In the Easter season we inaugurate today, we must ask the Lord, as his grace and gift, to “appear” also to us, to touch our hearts, to soften our hardnesses, to heal our wounds, to heal our diseases, to make us feel his living presence, all powerful and close, in the midst of so much misery, suffering, pain and death. Only from the experience of the Risen One can we be his witnesses, authentic and reliable, as were his first disciples; witnesses of the light that overcomes darkness, of the truth that overcomes the lie, of life that overcomes death.

Blessed guano and other religious signs remind us that we are celebrating Holy Week. Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana invited everyone, as far as possible, to place religious signs in our homes during this time. “Seeing them, he said, will help us live a good Easter.” In his an allocution this Palm Sunday, he asked families to eat together around the table. “Let us do a little prayer before we eat and discuss, like Jesus and the Apostles, how to love each other more. Before we sleep, like Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, let us pray together the Our Father with the children of the house and the next day, before we go out into the street, let us make a sign of the cross on the forehead of those who come out.”