(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, SEPTEMBER 25 - "Our eternal future depends on this present life: if we now dig an abyss with our brothers and sisters, we 'dig our grave' for the after; if we now raise walls against our brothers and sisters, les sisters, we remain imprisoned in solitude and death even after ".
This was stated by the Pope in the homily of the Mass at Matera which closes the National Eucharistic Congress of the CEI.
"It is painful to see that this parable - Pope Francis said, commenting on today's Gospel - is still the history of our days: the injustices, the disparities, the resources of the earth distributed in an inequitable way, the abuses of the powerful against the weak, the indifference towards the cry of the poor, the abyss that we dig every day by generating marginalization, cannot leave us indifferent ".
God then asks for "an effective conversion: from indifference to compassion, from waste to sharing, from selfishness to love, from individualism to fraternity".
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