“Lord Jesus, sent to the front (of war) at the age of 20, have mercy on us”he continued.
“Lord Jesus, dead in the arms of the mother in a bunker in Kharkov, have mercy on us”he added, mentioning the name of the second largest city in Ukraine, heavily bombed by Russia in 21 days of invasion.
The spiritual leader of the 1.3 billion Catholics “begged” God to “stay the hand of Cain”, the first murderer in human history, according to the Bible, the AFP news agency reported.
Sorry “if we continue to kill our brother, if we continue like Cain lifting stones from our land to kill Abel,” he said, alluding to the biblical character, the firstborn of Adam and Eve, who killed his younger brother.
“Forgive us if (…) our pain legitimizes the brutality of our actions” the pope continued, before the faithful gathered in the Paul VI room, many of whom carried Ukrainian flags.
On the other hand, he also evoked today the specter of a nuclear war, in which whoever is left of humanity would have to start over “the day after.” “Our imagination seems more and more focused on the representation of a final catastrophe that will extinguish us”he said, adding: “The ‘day after’, if there will still be days and human beings, we will have to start all over again from scratch.”
Last Sunday, Francis, who has multiplied calls for peace since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, had called for “an end to the massacre” in the country.
Source: Ambito
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