The auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, Monsignor Silvio Báez, said in his homily delivered at the church of Santa Ágatha, in Florida, that “everything has an end. Although sometimes it seems that the wicked have gotten away with it, and injustice has triumphed, defeating good and truth. “
“We must never despair or feel overwhelmed. God always has the last word, and in the end, good, truth and justice will triumph, “he said.
“Everything has an end. Even what seems more stable will end ”, he declared.
Báez insisted in his homily that “in the face of worldly powers that try to frighten us and make us feel powerless, we must overcome two attitudes that are contrary to faith: resignation and victimhood.”
“We resign ourselves when we believe that there is nothing to do, we cross our arms and are content to survive. We fall into victimhood when in the tragic moment we dedicate ourselves to lamenting ourselves or looking for the guilty among ourselves, remaining locked in a vicious circle of fear and impotence ”, he expressed.
Call not to lose hope
For his part, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, invited people not to get used to things as they are, so as not to become indifferent.
Álvarez made a call in favor of the poorest people in the country -the usual-, as well as those ‘new poor’ who fell into unemployment or underemployment, referring to those who have been affected since the crisis that the country suffers since 2018.
Citing the last three popes of the Catholic Church, the Matagalpino bishop wondered how many people in Nicaragua feel dismayed, and even anguished, to quote the late John Paul II, saying “it is disturbing to verify individual behaviors of groups that show a disconcerting absence of values. Our thoughts naturally go to certain events, some recent ones, which, to those who observe them carefully, produce a chilling sense of emptiness ”.
Álvarez complemented this reflection with the words of Pope Benedict XVI, who affirmed that “in our times there is also no lack of natural calamities and unfortunately, not even violent“, To go to the words of Pope Francis when he remembered” the lonely, marginalized and discriminated against. “
The bishop took advantage of the moment of his preaching to remember “a The unemployed, to the migrants, to the Nicaraguan brothers who live in extreme poverty, suffering and destitution, in the sometimes inhuman conditions that they are forced to live. To those who live in underemployment, and to so many who were thrown into informal employment, without any type of social benefits ”.
His thought was also “with the anonymous woman who represents the female universe, who has no voice and suffers violence.”
Álvarez rejected the thesis that “the poor are not only responsible for their condition, but also constitute an intolerable burden for an economic system that places some privileged categories at the center of its interests”, and assured that “impoverishment is the product of poverty. corruption, inequalities, and unequal distribution ”.
Faced with this reality, he again cited the words of Pope Francis, when he invited us to “not allow ourselves to become accustomed to becoming indifferent,” especially, thinking about how much “those below suffer. Those on foot ”.
“Those of us who are a people must create a great alliance of solidarity, so that, although the mountains collapse into the sea, and the raging waters hit the boat of our lives, being united in fraternal solidarity, they cannot alter our simple life and dignified, full of traditional values inherited from our ancestors ”, he concluded.
