"Our eternal future depends on this present life: if we dig now an abyss with our brothers and sisters, we 'dig the grave' for the later; if we now raise walls against our brothers and sisters, we remain imprisoned in solitude and in death even after ".
The Pope said this in the homily of the Mass in Matera which closes the National Eucharistic Congress of the CEI.
"It is painful to see that this parable - said Pope Francis commenting on today's Gospel - is still history of our days: injustices, disparities, the resources of the earth distributed in an unequal way, the abuses of the powerful against the weak, 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".
