Maputo, 22 May, 2024 / 8:25 pm (ACI Africa).
The peace that the Risen and Ascended Lord gives to his followers and speaks about is not just about the absence of violent conflicts, Bishop Osório Citora Afonso has said.
The Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Maputo in Mozambique, who was delivering his homily on May 19, Pentecost Sunday, called upon the people of God to understand peace as establishing and maintaining a relationship with God.
“The peace that Jesus is talking about is not just the absence of war,” Bishop Osório said.
Jesus’ peace, he emphasized, is a “relationship with God” that is a response for the love “He has with us; and it is this love that we witness in our society.”
“Where we are, in our parishes, in our areas, in our Archdiocese, we are invited to be messengers of peace, to be messengers of love and to be messengers of communion,” the Catholic Church leader said at St. John the Baptist Parish of Maputo Archdiocese.
