A blessed and happy Easter Sunday!
Our Lord and Brother, You conquered because You entrusted Yourself to the Father, because You placed Yourself into His hands. Jesus, my Friend and Brother, help me to entrust myself, to place myself into the hands of Your Father and our Father. Help me to go beyond, far beyond, to arrive where You are. Help me to live Your Risen Life!
Amen.
Presiding over his first Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square as pontiff, Pope Leo acknowledged that the Easter message of hope and light is not always easy to accept, since the power of death constantly threatens us both interiorly and externally.
Yet, the Risen Christ gives us certain hope, the Pope concluded, which is much needed in the world today.
Pope Leo's Easter message:
"Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!"
We need to pray and find time for moments of silence and reflection, in order to quiet the frenzy of doing and saying, of messages, reels and chats, and to delve deeper into and savor the beauty of truly and genuinely being together with God and one another. #ApostolicJourney