Papal visit
Pope considers that Reconstruction starts in the daily sacrifices
Luanda - Pope Benedict XVI said, last March 22nd, in Luanda that the reconstruction of a country “must start in the hearts and the small daily sacrifices”.
Benedict XVI made this statement at Cimangola esplanade, place where an open-air mass was celebrated.
"You know, by bitter experience, that the reconstruction work - in contrast with the sudden destroying fury of evil - is painfully slow and hard, requires time, fatigue and perseverance”, affirmed the Pope.
In his intervention, he spoke of the necessity to love all the neighbours without looking at race, ethnic group or language.
“Even if this means a sign of contradiction face to the hard behaviours and mentality that sees others more as an instrument to use than as brothers and sisters to love, to respect and to help throughout the road for freedom, life and hope ", mentioned the Sovereign Pontiff.
The leader of the Catholic Church guided “make that your parishes become communities, where the light of God's and truth force of conciliating love are not only celebrated but revealed in concrete workmanships of charity”.
