Posted on 03/14/2021 6:36:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Archbishop Emeritus of Minsk celebrates the feast of St. Casimir in a church destroyed during the Soviet era and rebuilt last year.
Moscow (AsiaNews) - The world needs "sages and saints", not "reformers" or "revolutionaries" says Msgr. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, celebrating the consecration Mass of the new church of St. Casimir in Stolbtsy, in the province of Minsk on 7 March.
It is one of the first public gestures of the Archbishop Emeritus of Minsk, who had spent months in exile and then retired on January 3, after difficult negotiations with the Belarusian authorities. Quoting the French theologian Marie-Dominique Chenu, he stressed that "the most important thing in human life is wisdom".
In his homily, reported extensively by the Belarusian media, Kondrusiewicz explained that wisdom is manifested "in the ability to adequately organize the life of man himself and of society, and also in that of making the necessary decisions for this, knowing objectively evaluate situations ". For this reason, the archbishop proposed to the faithful present to "look through the prism of divine law, to understand who we really are, whether we are authentic or artificial Christians".
According to the prelate, “we live in a time in which natural things, artefacts and even food, are replaced by artificial ones, because they are less expensive, but moral values cannot be cheapened, they cannot be devalued. The Gospel was given to us not for us to change it, but for it to change us, according to the requirements of the moral law”.
Recalling the dramatic events experienced in recent months, Kondrusiewicz said that "human life is a continuous struggle, in which we must overcome evil with good. In every epoch of human history, reformers or revolutionaries are needed not as much as wise and holy men. May the good Lord fill us......
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True - but history’s sages and saints could never have competed with collectivism-saturated social media. :)
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