Monsignor Silvio Báez, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, based his homily this Sunday, May 1, from the Santa Agatha Church in Miami, United States, on the story of the third appearance of Jesus Christ to his disciples on the shores of the sea , when they had returned to their routine work, thinking that with his death everything was over.
«This is also what happens at the social level when, after a certain time, the efforts to achieve significant changes in society seem sterile. We feel that everything has been useless, “said the Catholic hierarch.
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«When we have not obtained the expected results, we are overwhelmed by the feeling of not being able to face injustice and generate the necessary changes to create a new society. We perceive that the force of evil and oppression is too great and we fall into the temptation of lowering our arms, resigned and without hope. It is the night of exhaustion, but it is not the end », she emphasized.
Alluding to the social and political crisis that Nicaragua is facing, Báez reflected that “when we have empty nets, it is not time to lament, but to start over with Jesus.”
“The risen Jesus breaks the confinements that paralyze and gives us back the audacity capable of overcoming the fear and distrust that make us think that things cannot be better,” he said.
He added that “Jesus invites us to cast the nets of heart and mind into the open sea of history, knowing that we are not alone. His presence and his word assure us that it is always possible to start again ».
He encouraged not to give up in the face of difficulty, “nor back down in hard times.” “That encounter (of Jesus Christ with his disciples) changed everything. They learned that Jesus is inside our nights and tiredness, although sometimes we do not perceive it and we feel alone».
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“Only supported by the love of Jesus, we will be able to get up again and again, freed from guilt and internally renewed. When it is love that drives us from within, everything can start again, with renewed strength and new illusions. When it is not fears, or selfish interests, or excessive ambitions that animate our lives, we can always start again », he concluded.
From the forced exile that Monsignor Báez lives, he has called on the Nicaraguan people not to “lower their arms” in the face of all the adversities that they experience at the hands of the Ortega regime, which insists on the siege and persecution against all those who dissent from its policy. repressive.
