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"Conversion, against the current of mediocre morality |
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17/02/2010 (0:55)
"Conversion is to go against the flow, where the 'flow' is a lifestyle that is superficial, incoherent and illusory, which often drags us in, dominates us and makes us slaves of evil or at least prisoners of moral mediocrity." The Pope noted this in the catechesis of today's general audience dedicated to the journey of Lent, which begins today.
Before more than seven thousand pilgrims, Benedict XVI recalled that with conversion, to which we are reminded in the first formula of the rite of ashes, "we are pointed to the high standard of Christian life- "the living and personal Gospel which is Jesus Christ. For this, a small adjustment of life is not enough, but rather "a real turnaround, a choice of faith." The second formula,"Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return", reminds us instead of our fragility, but if man will return to dust, the Pope concluded,"this is a precious dust" for God, who created man destining him for immortality."
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