"Then, one understands that non-violence for Christians went one Benedict XVI is not a mere tactical attitude, but the way the person is, the attitude of one who is ‘so convinced of God’s love and power’ that one is not afraid of facing evil with the only weapons of love and truth". The love of one’s enemy therefore "is the core of the ‘Christian revolution’, a revolution that is not based on economic, political or media power strategies. The revolution of love, a love that does not finally rely on human resources, but is God’s gift, which can be obtained by confiding only and unconditionally in His merciful goodness". Here is "the novelty of the Gospel, which changes the world noiselessly", "the heroism of the ‘little ones’, who believe in God’s love and spread it even at the cost of their life". Finally, as he recalled the beginning of Lent, next Wednesday with the Ashes, the Pope highlighted that this is "the favourable time in which all Christians are invited to convert more and mode deeply to the love of Christ".
