Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes exhorted in his homily this “Resurrection Sunday” from the Cathedral of Managua, to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ and ask for peace in the world.
«When we live some difficult situations and sometimes we don’t understand, we don’t understand; situations too heavy for us that can disappoint us, let us not forget that there is hope and we cannot remain locked in the empty tomb».
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Alluding to the social and political context that Nicaragua is experiencing and the war that Ukraine is waging against Russia, the Archbishop of Managua said that “Jesus cannot be in war, Jesus cannot be in hatred, Jesus cannot be in denigraters.” ».
He emphasized that Nicaraguans have to be people of hope “and be able to discover that Christ who has risen, that Christ who is hope, that Christ who is a caress, that Christ who is a hug, that Christ who is joy.”
“I would like to invite my good children so that we can feel, we can think how the Lord has been working with me, how the Lord has manifested himself, how the Lord has made himself present in me,” he added.
Alluding to the hateful messages that Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo has issued against the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, Brenes reiterated that “in hate, in death, in slander, in those phrases of hate, resentment, defamation Jesus is not there, because Jesus is love and has come so that we may have life in abundance».
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«Since the cross we do not find a phrase of offenses for those who had whipped him, had tortured him. The great feeling that comes from a big heart: forgive them Lord because they do not know what they do », he pointed out.
The words of the maximum austerity of the Catholic Church come in a month in which Murillo has attacked religious leaders and the opposition in Nicaragua, whom they continue to call “traitors of the country.”
On the eve of four years since the civic rebellion of April 18, 2018, the Ortega dictatorship has increased its attack and siege against the Nicaraguan people.
