October 9, 2022, 9:16 AM
October 9, 2022, 9:16 AM
In the homily celebrated this Sunday in the Santa Cruz cathedral, mOnsignor Estanislao Dowlaszewicz, auxiliary archbishop of Santa Cruz, stated that the life of Christians is plagued by “many contemporary leprosy that separate us from the love of God”, such as consumerism, fashion and selfishness.
“We could ask ourselves: “What are our leprosy? What do I need to be purified and redeemed from? excludes from the Church, from society and from the world in which I live?”, reflected the religious in his message.
He pointed out that many times we are not aware of how much we need God because we are entertained in the routines of life and absorbed by our work, occupations and other concerns, that we are not aware that we fall into a vicious circle, a cycle in which living without God becomes habitual.
This is because our conscience is numb “by consumerism, fashion, trash TV” and because we do not do all the good that we could do, nor are we generous enough with others.
“Perhaps our leprosy is forgetfulness of God: believing that we can do anything and that we are powerful, because today we have the power to decide on the future and we can do everything to despise the other who thinks differently or lives in another region of the world. Another leprosy can be selfishness: looking only at ourselves as if we were the center of the universe. There are many ways to be a “contemporary leper”, concluded the prelate.
