Vatican City, Apr 14, 2017 / 09:57 am
Even as sinful people in a society filled with violence and increasing secularism, we have hope because Christ's cross perdures, the papal preacher said at the Vatican's Good Friday Service.
"The cross, then, does not 'stand' against the world but for the world: to give meaning to all the suffering that has been, that is, and that will be in human history," Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap., said April 14.
He gave the homily during the Celebration of the Lord's Passion presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica. Fr. Cantalamessa also gave the homilies at Mass at the chapel of Casa Santa Marta on Fridays throughout Lent.
Today, we are constantly hearing about death and violence, he said. "Why then are we here to recall the death of a man who lived 2,000 years ago?"