Lisbon. D. Manuel Clemente appealing at the service of the most chemists
Domingo Clemente, appeal patriarch of Lisbon, D. Manuel Clemente, appealed this second war, celebration in which he evoked the victims of the wars in the world.
“Life is gained when it is offered, to live in Christ is to live with others and for others”, he said, in the homily of the Easter Mass, which he presided at the Lisbon Cathedral.
“Christ is in the midst of us and, for us, in the midst of all”, added D. Manuel Clemente.
D. Manuel highlighted the Easter of Jesus which is “all absolute and absolute presence, which reconfigures everything else” and one that fills “all space at all times”.
“There is undeniably a before and after Christ, both in the history of the world and in the personal history of each one”, he indicated.
In a celebration with the participation of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, D. Manuel Clemente concluded with a blessing for “all circumstances in which it is most necessary to feel the presence of God”, Ukraine in northern Mozambique or Yemen.
“The God of life does not give up on anyone,” he declared.
On the last night, during the Easter Vigil, the patriarch of Lisbon said that “they usually survive in the world, for “so much accumulated, and rubble accumulated by wars and other males that are not lacking”.
The cardinal survived “those who live amidst the affliction of war, Ukraine, other places where humanity, despite everything”.
“Survival that Christ’s victory over death marks and guarantees. With them we are in prayer, adding our desire to the God of peace himself. With them we will remain, until the war is over and even after,” he said.
D. Manuel Clemente also questioned what he called “pretextual and merely decorative Christianity”, considering that these “contradict the cause of the Gospel”.