BOULDERS
- Mar 30
- 1 min read
Theology seeks to understand the meaning of events, so as to help us spiritually.
After praying the Angelus, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the meaning of the resurrection of Lazarus:
This event invites us to free our hearts from habits, conditioning and ways of thinking which, like boulders, shut us away in the tomb of selfishness, materialism, violence and superficiality.
In these places there is no life, but only confusion, dissatisfaction and loneliness (22 March 2026).
Surely we feel like this from time to time?
We can be terribly selfish. We let ourselves be swamped with materialism. We acquiesce with violence, tolerating it in movies and on social media. We forget our foundation stone – Christ – and reap a harvest of superficiality.
The pope wants us to enter the scene and hear Jesus say:
Jesus also cries out to us: ‘Come out!’ (John 11:43), urging us to emerge from these cramped spaces, renewed by his grace, to walk in the light of love, as new women and men, capable of hoping and loving, without calculation and without measure, according to the model of his infinite charity.
We are very weak.
Our strength is the word and voice of Christ.
AMEN.
