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A TIME OF GREAT UNCERTAINTY

  • Busselton Catholic Parish
  • Apr 10, 2020
  • 1 min read

FROM ‘A TIME OF GREAT UNCERTAINTY’ - An Interview with Pope Francis By Austen Ivereigh - 08.04.20—In ‘Commonweal’ When asked how we are being called to live in this extraordinary Lent and Eastertide ....... Those who have been impoverished by the crisis are today’s deprived, who are added to the numbers of deprived of all times, men and women whose status is “deprived.” They have lost everything, or they are going to lose everything. What meaning does deprivation have for me, in the light of the Gospel? It means to enter into the world of the deprived, to understand that he who had, no longer has. What I ask of people is that they take the elderly and the young under their wing, that they take history under the wing, take the deprived under their wing. What comes now to mind is another verse of Virgil’s, at the end of Book 2 of the Aeneid, when Aeneas, following defeat in Troy, has lost everything. Two paths lie before him: to remain there to weep and end his life, or to follow what was in his heart, to go up to the mountain and leave the war behind. It’s a beautiful verse. Cessi, et sublato montem genitore petivi (“I gave way to fate and, bearing my father on my shoulders, made for the mountain”). This is what we all have to do now, today: to take with us the roots of our traditions, and make for the mountain.

 
 
 

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