Pope Francis' Message to All Humanity in the Pandemic

Pope Francis’ Message to All of Humanity in the Pandemic

/Rome Reports in English

We have realized that we are in the same boat

All of us fragile and disoriented

But at the same time important and needed.

We find ourselves afraid and lost.

Thick darkness has gathered over our squares,

Our streets, and our cities.

It has taken over our lives, filling

Everything as it passes by.

We feel it in the air

We notice in people’s gestures

Their glances give them away

We find ourselves afraid and lost

Our facades fall away.

In this storm, the façade of those stereotypes,

With which we comouflaged our egos,

Always worrying about  our image

Has fallen away.

We carried on unperturbed –

Thinking we would stay healthy

In a world that was sick.

We did not stop

We have gone ahead at breakneck speed

Feeling powerful and able to do anything

Greedy for profit, we let ourselves get caught up

In things and lured away by haste.

We are not shaken by wars

Or injustice across the world,

We did not listen to the cry of the poor

Or our ailing planet.

The time of our judgment!

You are calling on us to seize

This time of trial,

As a time of choosing

It is not the time of your judgment,

 but of our judgment –

A time to choose what matters

And what passes away –

A time to separate what is necessary

From what is not.

/Pope Francis, Vatican. March 2020

/posted by rosevoc april 2, 2020