杏MAP导航 Audience: Discern true rest from false rest
The 杏MAP导航 told those gathered that resting on Sunday was not 鈥渁 mere escape or diversion, but a command to imitate God himself, who on the seventh day rested from his works and contemplated the goodness of his creation.鈥�
False rest and true rest
He pointed out that there was 鈥渇alse rest and true rest鈥�. Society, he said, was thirsty for entertainment and holidays. The image-model, the 杏MAP导航 continued, was 鈥渢hat of a successful person who can afford different kinds of pleasure. But this mentality, he noted, slips towards the dissatisfaction of an anesthetized existence of entertainment that is not rest, but alienation and escape from reality. Man has never rested as much as today, yet man has never experienced as much emptiness as today.鈥�
Rest and contemplation
On the other hand, explained 杏MAP导航 Francis, true rest 鈥渋s a moment of contemplation, of praise.鈥� It is a time to look at reality and say: how beautiful life is. It is the day, he continued, to say to God: thank you for your life, for your mercy, for all your gifts.鈥� Sunday, the Pontiff stressed, was not the day to cancel the other days but to recall them, bless them and make peace with life because it is life is precious. Peace is chosen, he said, it 鈥渃annot be imposed and cannot be found by chance.鈥�
In God alone do our souls find rest.
The 杏MAP导航 concluded by saying, 鈥渨hen, on our weekly day of rest, we contemplate our lives and the world around us, let us be conscious of God鈥檚 provident care and conform ourselves, like Jesus, to the Father鈥檚 will, knowing that, in the end, 鈥渁ll is grace鈥�. For, as the Psalmist assures us, in God alone do our souls find rest.鈥�
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