POPE PIUS XII’S EASTER MESSAGE.
This message was delivered during World War II. It was a time of anti-everything. The Germans were anti-Semitic, the Soviets were anti-capitalism, The U.S. was anti-communist/Nazi (making for odd political bed-fellows in that the U.S. and Russia were “allies” ), the … Well, it just goes on and on. Today? I think we live in a similar anti-whatever climate. People talk about climate change. Today might be a good day to pray for a resurrection of solid values, true peace, and an end to anti-fill-in-the-blank.
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Happy Easter, J-M. May God bless you throughout the Easter season and throughout the year!
After reading Pope Pius’ Easter Message, I ask: How did we get from angels proclaiming “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will” (Lk 2:14) to Christ declaring “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Mt 10:34)? At the time Christ was born, people thought the long-awaited messiah would defeat the temporal powers who were oppressing them; but the good angels tell us this is not so, and Christ instructs us to “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar” (Mt 22:21). The enemy Christ defeats is everlasting spiritual death, a death into which fallen angels try to lead us. Although we might attain brief moments of temporal peace during our earthly lives, we cannot escape the struggle against spiritual death; and Christ cautions us that this struggle can even put us at odds with relatives who reject God’s grace.
Happy Easter to you too. And the peace of Christ to us all. 🙂