"The rationale of love that becomes service to the point of donating itself": this, explained the Pope yesterday morning, as he introduced the Angelus prayer from Castelgandolfo, "is the rationale of Christianity, which answers the truth of man, created in the likeness of God, but at the same time it clashes with his selfishness, the consequence of the original sin". Everyone, added Benedict XVI, "is attracted by love, which is ultimately God Himself, but often they are wrong in they way they actually love". Then, the Holy Father mentioned "the testimony of so many Christians who, with humbleness and in silence, spend their lives to serve others because of the Lord, by factually working as servants of love and, as such, as the ‘artisans’ of peace". Some of them are asked to give "the supreme testimony of blood", as it happened a few days ago in Somalia, to "sister Leonella Sgorbati, who fell pray to violence", who "while dying said the word ‘forgiveness’". "Here’s commented the Pope the most genuine Christian testimony, a peaceful sign of contradiction that proves the victory of love over hatred and evil". Today, the Pope will receive in Castelgandolfo the ambassadors of about twenty Islamic countries accredited to the Holy See.
