“The power of love is stronger than the evil that threatens us". With these words, during the sermon at Mass, celebrated yesterday at the Prairie in front of 200 thousand people, the Pope summed up the "universality" of the message of Lourdes, 150 years after the Marian apparitions. The Virgin, went on Benedict XVI, “invites the men of good will, all those who suffer in their hearts and bodies, to raise their eyes to Jesus’ Cross, to find the source of life, the source of salvation”. “Let’s raise our eyes to Christ" to "build a reconciled world”, invited the Pope, who recalled the "missionary spirit” of the "great French evangelisers”. “None of you is indifferent for God”, were the Pope’s words to the young, to whom he wished "a happy and meaningful life”, without "losing heart in front of difficulties”. “May the Christian families and communities be the places in which sound callings at the service of the Church and the world may be born and grow”, wished the Pontiff, who exhorted "those who are called to marriage to discover the beauty of a true and deep love, experienced as a mutual and faithful gift”. During the Angelus, the Pope lingered on "Mary’s motherly love" that “disarms any form of pride” and through which "we find out that the Christian faith is not a burden”.
