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The Pope's Angelus: to fight against sin and the sinner saved



the Pope at the Angelus in St. Peter's Square today, recalling the first Sunday of Lent today, invited to seek True freedom, rediscovering the sense of sin, "a root cause of all evil." The real fight is against the spirit of evil must be opposed to sin, then, and save the sinner. The service Sergio Centofanti .

Lent in the Church is a spiritual journey of preparation for Easter. "This is - Said the Pope - to follow Jesus that goes straight to the Cross, the culmination of his mission of salvation ":

" If we ask ourselves: Why Lent? for the Cross', the answer in radical terms, is this: why is there evil, in fact, sin, which according to the Scriptures is the root cause of all evil. "

"But this statement - he continued - is not at all obvious, and the same word 'sin' is not accepted by many, because it assumes a religious vision of the world and of man":

"In fact it is true: If you remove God from the horizon of the world, one can not speak of sin. Like when you hide the sun, the shadows disappear, the shadow only appears if it's sunny, so the eclipse of God necessarily involves the eclipse of sin. So the sense of sin - which is something different from the 'guilt' as understood by psychology - you buy rediscovering the sense of God. "

"In the face of moral evil - said Benedict XVI - God's attitude is to oppose the sin and save the sinner"

"God does not tolerate evil because it is love, justice, loyalty, and for this reason does not want the death of the sinner, but that he be converted and live. To save humanity, God says to them: we see throughout the history of the Jewish liberation from Egypt. God is determined to free his children from bondage and lead them to freedom. And slavery more severe and deeper than it is sin. "

why God sent his Son into the world "to free men from the dominion of Satan, 'origin and cause of all sin'. He sent in our mortal flesh - the Pope said - that he might become an expiatory victim, dying on the cross for us, "

" Against this definitive and universal plan of salvation, the Devil has opposed with all his strength, as evidenced in particular the Gospel of temptations of Jesus in the desert, which is proclaimed every year in the First Sunday of Lent. In fact, entering this liturgical season means every time stand with Christ against sin, deal with - both as individuals and as a Church - the spiritual battle against the spirit of evil. "