Unity We Must Strive for it.

 Unity We Must Strive for it.

The words of the Popes-unity is your special task,-06-14-25

Being free - according to the programme of Christ and his Kingdom - does not mean enjoyment but toil: the toil of freedom. At the price of this toil man ‘does not disperse’, but together with Christ “gathers” and ‘accumulates’.


At the price of this toil, man also obtains in himself that unity, which is proper to the Kingdom of God. (…)


My dear friends! This unity is your special task, if you do not want to give in, if you do not want to surrender to the unity of that other agenda, the one that seeks to realise in the world, in mankind, in our generation and in each one of us, the one whom the Holy Scripture also calls ‘the father of lies’ (Jn 8:44). (…)


Learn to think, speak and act according to the principles of simplicity and evangelical clarity: ‘Yes, yes, no, no’. Learn to call white white, and black black - evil evil, and good good. Learn to call sin sin, and not to call it liberation and progress, even if all the fashion and propaganda were against it. Through such simplicity and clarity, the unity of the Kingdom of God is built - and this unity is at the same time a mature inner unity of every man, it is the foundation of the unity of spouses and families, it is the strength of societies: of societies that perhaps already feel, and feel better and better, how you try to destroy and break them down from within, calling good evil, and sin the manifestation of progress and liberation. 

(St. John Paul II, Homily, 26 March 1981)


Date14/06/2025

Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time

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