During the homily on Easter Sunday at the Santa Agatha Church in Miami, United States, Monsignor Silvio Báez called on the parishioners to continue forward despite “the great stones that block the road that prevent us from going forward and try to bury our hopes.” ».
In his words on Easter Sunday, the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua stated that “God free us from those who presume to know everything and have a solution for everything. God free us from the dictatorship of mental rigidity and the arrogance of those who try to impose his little truth as absolute truth ».
Likewise, he expressed that when “we search together, we open ourselves to God’s surprises and take the first step towards Easter, towards the encounter with the One who is the Truth. No one has all the solutions and only together can we find reasonable and sensible paths that open us to the new. Let’s learn to say “I don’t know” and to listen to each other. It is the first step towards Easter”.
«Today there are huge stones that prevent us from living and being free. On the path of life we are blocked by the stones of discouragement, mistrust, fear and sin. On the way to their liberation, the peoples are blocked not only by the enormous stones of the cruelty of the tyrants, but also by the stones of the indifference of the egoists, the envy among the leaders and the hopelessness of the people tired of suffering. But all those stones can be removed,” the monsignor added.
The Nicaraguan dictatorship has been merciless against the Catholic Church since 2022, closing Catholic radio stations, threatening religious people to force them into exile, closing organizations belonging to the Church and prohibiting processions of national importance. He has branded priests and bishops “diabolical” and “traitors.”
Faced with the constant onslaught of the Nicaraguan government against religious freedom, human rights organizations have demanded that the Daniel Ortega administration “adhere to the principle of constitutional secularism that lays the foundations for the guarantee of the exercise of freedom of conscience and religion”.
For his part, Bishop Báez added that “from now on, there is no stone that can bury life. By resurrecting Jesus, God assures us that nothing can imprison us in mediocrity or fear, nor bury our hope. Let’s not let ourselves be conditioned by the new gravediggers who want us to bury life and history by staying in the past.
«That first day of Easter the Risen Lord made himself mysteriously present and little by little faith was born in those first disciples. Today we too, regardless of the sadness that overwhelms us, the tiredness that we are dragging or how far we have lived from God, can begin to run the race of faith with hope. Christ was resurected! There are reasons to believe and to run. Let’s not be afraid of not having answers for everything, let’s not be afraid of the big stones that block the way and prevent us from moving forward. He has conquered life, he has conquered love! Christ was resurected! He Truly he is risen! Hallelujah!” concluded the religious leader.
