"Bring into the world the hope of God, that is Christ the Lord, who is resurrected from the dead, and lives and reigns for ever and ever". This is a sort of missionary office that marked the end of the sermon of the Mass celebrated by the Pope at Stadium Bentegodi in Verona, in which Benedict XVI made the wish "that the Church in Italy may start all over again from this Meeting, as if swept along by the word of the Lord Resurrected, who repeats to all and each one: be, in the world of today, the witnesses of my passion and my resurrection". "Christ is hope for the world, because He resurrected, and He resurrected because He is God", explained Benedict XVI, according to whom "Christians too can bring hope into the world because they belong to Christ and to God insofar as they die for Him in sin and resurrect with Him to the new life of love, of forgiveness, of service, of non-violence. Only if, like Christ, they do not belong to the world, can Christians be hope in the world and for the world". "In His name, bring to everyone the announcement of the conversion and forgiveness of the sins, but be the first to give evidence of a converted and forgiven life", exhorted the Pope, even in the "many difficult situations that await a decisive solution".
