” “"Sunday went on Benedict XVI in our western societies has been turned into a weekend, into leisure time. Leisure, time especially in the frenzy of the modern time, is certainly a nice and necessary thing". But, commented the Pope, "if leisure time has no inner centre to give direction to all the rest, it ends up being just empty time, that does not strengthen or revive us. Leisure time needs a centre: the relationship with Him who is our origin and our destination". In fact, "just because, in Sunday, we deeply deal with the relationship, in the Word and in the Sacrament, with Christ Resurrected, the ray of such a day embraces all of reality". And that’s not all: "The first Christians celebrated the first day of the week as the Day of the Lord, because that was the day of His Resurrection. But fairly soon the Church realised that the first day of the week was also the day of the dawn of the Creation". This is why "Sunday is in the Church also the weekly feast of the Creation, the feast of the gratitude and joy for God’s Creation". So, "at a time in which, because of our human intervention, the Creation seems to be widely endangered, we should deliberately welcome this dimension of the Sunday as well".” “
