At times man feels "powerless" and "paralysed" in the face of evil, wars and corruption.
And instead Easter pushes us "to move forward" because Christ with his resurrection changed history.
Then he "remembers and walks": this is the Pope's invitation on Easter night.
He remembers "first love", "your Galilee", or the moment in which you met God. And he walks to go forward and not stand still and without hope.
The Pope arrived this evening in the Vatican basilica, where eight thousand faithful are present, in a wheelchair.
His voice sounded tired at times.
On the other hand, this is a particularly busy week for him, with the various celebrations of the Easter Triduum,
a commitment that he carried on despite his recent hospitalization in Gemelli for a respiratory infection, with the exception of last night's Via Crucis which he had to give up due to the cold.
At times "we have felt helpless and discouraged in the face of the power of evil, the conflicts that tear relationships apart, the logic of calculation and indifference that seem to govern society, the cancer of corruption, there is so much, the spread of 'injustice, to the icy winds of war", the Pope said in his homily, underlining that instead, as happened with the women who announced the resurrection of Christ, "the Easter of the Lord pushes us to go forward, to get out of the sense of defeat , to roll away the stone from the tombs in which we often confine our hope, to look to the future with confidence,
Then the Pontiff evokes the "face to face with death" and his words cannot help but come to mind as he left the hospital, a few days ago, when he spoke of an "old man" who had told him: "death is there 'I saw it coming, it's ugly eh".
But on this Easter night the Pope instead invites us to look ahead as the women who "do not remain paralyzed in front of a tomb but, says the Gospel, 'hastily abandoned the tomb with fear and great joy, ran to announce the his disciples'. They bring the news that will change life and history forever: Christ is risen!".
"Today the strength of Easter invites us to roll away the boulders of disappointment and distrust; the Lord, expert in overturning the tombstones of sin and fear,
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