ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We need to look to the future with hope and build the hope of the future. Do not be afraid to do so.” Thus Pope Leo in the homily on the pavement of Kilamba, Angola, in the presence of at least 100 thousand people, according to an estimate of the local authorities. “The history of your country, the still difficult consequences you endure, the social and economic problems and the different forms of poverty invoke the presence of a Church that knows how to stand side by side on the path and knows how to gather the cry of its children,” the Pontiff said, “to build a country where the old divisions are forever overcome, where hatred and violence disappear, where the plague of corruption is healed by a new culture of justice and violence”.
“We must always watch over those forms of traditional religiosity, which certainly belong to the roots of your culture, but at the same time risk confusing and mixing magical and superstitious elements that do not help in the spiritual journey,” says Pope Leo, warning us from superstitions and magical rites. “Remain faithful to what the Church teaches, trust your Pastors and keep your gaze fixed on Jesus, which is particularly revealed in the Word and the Eucharist.” After Kilamba the Pontiff will go to the sanctuary of Mama Muzima for the Rosary.
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