Fr. Nabil Mouanness

 

Why do we always stand at the crossroads—between good and evil, between destruction and prosperity, between fire and reconstruction?

 

How long will humanity remain dull, envious, misled, deceived, ideologized, drowning in the mire of blood and hatred, rejecting light, love, tenderness, creativity, generosity, cooperation, and building?

 

It’s as if we live in the heart of a broken, wounded, closed world.

Trapped under an ideological and psychological magnet, just as we breathe air under the pressure of cosmic gravity, and in our veins runs a blood pressure saturated with that primordial rejection—of Satan and all his followers.

 

We are always drawn toward division… dissociation… fragmentation.

So who will save us now?

Who will redeem us from nuclear wars, from death missiles striking East and West?

 

Where have the prophets of God gone?

What became of the feet of those who proclaimed peace?

 

I heard the call of Pope Leo…

And tomorrow is Corpus Christi—Thursday of the Eucharist.

Let us go out in faith.

Let us walk around the world with the power of radiant, atomic presence,

A presence capable of reviving the very cells of the Earth.

 

With divine love,

flowing at the speed of light—

faster than any missile, any bomber, any base—

 

Let us lift Him up on our shoulders—

from the heart of our churches and around them,

in our minds, in our spirits,

and cry out, unafraid:

 

“Have mercy on us, O God, according to Your great mercy!”

Let the cannons and drones fall silent.

Let presidents and generals be humbled,

Let minds be renewed.

And let the new human be clothed—

The Human of Peace,

The Prince of Peace,

Jesus Christ, Lord of Lords.