"Everything will be different" after the global pandemic of the new coronavirus, from which humanity will emerge "better or worse", warned Pope Francis, in a message broadcast on Saturday evening. "When we come out of this pandemic, we will not be able to continue doing what we were doing, and as we were doing it. No, everything will be different," said the Sovereign Pontiff, in a video message in Spanish on the occasion of the feast of Pentecost.
"From the great trials of humanity, among which this pandemic, we will emerge better or worse. It is not the same thing. I ask you: how do you get out of it? Better or worse?" -he throws.
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"The duty to build a new reality"
"We need the Holy Spirit to give us new eyes, to open our minds and our hearts to face the present moment and the future with the lesson learned: we are one humanity. No one is saved alone. No one, "assured Pope Francis. "We know it, but this pandemic that we are living has made us live it in a much more dramatic way. We have before us the duty to build a new reality", while "today, the world suffers, the world is injured, (...) especially among the poorest who are rejected ".
"All these sufferings will have been for nothing if we do not build together a more just, more equitable, more Christian society, not in words, but in fact," he added, calling once again on "put an end to the world poverty pandemic". "And that is why today, we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit so that he changes our hearts and helps us to become better. (...) It is the task of all of us, and of all of us ", he concluded.
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Faithful present Saturday at the Vatican, a first for three months
In mid-March, the Pope created an interdisciplinary reflection group to work for a year on a more virtuous post-Covid 19 world, in all areas. He also announced "a special Laudato Si year", five years after the publication of this very social encyclical on ecology, denouncing in scathing terms the exploitation of men and nature.
On Saturday afternoon, the Pope attended a prayer in the Vatican gardens in the presence, for the first time in almost three months, of nearly a hundred faithful, all broadcast worldwide. Since the beginning of the confinement in Italy on March 10, the Vatican has applied the same rules of social distancing as those valid on the peninsula, and the Pope has since received only extremely small delegations.