Today people try to find salvation wherever they can
Pius XII, said that the tragedy of our age was that it had lost its sense of sin, the awareness of sin. Today we add further to the tragedy by considering our illness, our sins, to be incurable, things that cannot be healed or forgiven. We lack the actual concrete experience of mercy. The fragility of our era is this, too; we don’t believe that there is a chance for redemption; for a hand to raise you up; for an embrace to save you, forgive you, pick you up, flood you with infinite, patient, indulgent love; to put you back on your feet. We need mercy.
Chesterton said “When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything.”
Today people try to find salvation wherever they can.
– Pope Francis, The Name of God Is Mercy
