Photo: Prof. Filippo Maria Boscia, Past President AMCI, greeting the Holy Father-
Saint Peter’s Square-
at 10:30 a.m.
Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers
Holy Mass presided over by H.E. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelisation, Section for Fundamental Questions of Evangelisation in the World
“I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” (Is 43:19). God addressed these words to the people of Israel through the prophet Isaiah while they were in exile in Babylon. For the Israelites, it was a difficult time: it seemed that all was lost. Jerusalem had been conquered and destroyed by the soldiers of King Nebuchadnezzar II, and the people, now deported, had nothing left. The future was bleak and every hope seemed thwarted. Everything could have tempted the people in exile to give up, to grow bitter and to feel that they were no longer blessed by God.
Yet, in this very situation, the Lord invited them to embrace something new that was unfolding. Not something that would happen in the future, but something already happening, something springing up like a shoot. What is it? What could possibly come into being, or even have already sprouted, in such a desolate and forlorn landscape?
A new people was being born. A people that,More…
