Vatican City, 24 March 2014 (VIS) –
This morning in the Vatican Pope Francis received the participants in
the plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Health Care
Workers, whose president is Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski. “It is
true that in suffering no-one is ever alone”, he said, “as God in
his merciful love for mankind and for the world also embraces the
most inhuman situations, in which the image of the Creator present in
every person appears to be obscured or disfigured. Thus was Jesus, in
his Passion. … And here, in the Passion of Jesus, there is the
greatest school for whoever wishes to dedicate him to the service of
his sick and suffering brethren”.
Pope Francis recalled, on the Feast of
the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, which will be
celebrated tomorrow, how Mary welcomes life on behalf of us all.
“Mary offers her very existence, she made herself entirely
available for God's will, becoming the locus of his presence, the
place in which the Son of God resides”.
He continued, “The experience of
fraternal sharing with those who suffer opens us to the true beauty
of human life, which includes its fragility. In the protection and
promotion of life, in whatever state and condition it may be found,
we can recognise the dignity and the value of each single human
being, from conception to natural death”. The Pope concluded by
encouraging those present always to keep in mind “the flesh of
Christ in the poor, in those who suffer, in children, including those
who are unwanted, in people with physical or mental handicaps, and in
the elderly”.
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