It the forty-day liturgical season
which is in the Church a spiritual path
preparation for Easter.
is, ultimately, to follow Jesus,
that goes strongly towards the Cross,
summit its mission of salvation.
If we ask: Why Lent?
Why the Cross?
The answer in radical terms, is this:
because there is evil, is, sin,
that according to the Scriptures
is the root cause of all evil.
But this statement is not
something that can be taken for granted,
and the very word "sin" ;
is not accepted by many,
it presupposes
a religious worldview
, and man.
In fact, it's true:
if you remove God from the horizon of the world,
, can not speak of sin.
Like when the sun goes
shadows disappear
- the shadow only appears when the sun -
just as the eclipse of God
necessarily entail the eclipse of sin.
For this reason, the sense of sin
- which is something other than "guilt"
as understood by psychology -
reached rediscovering the sense of God. Expressed in the Psalm Miserere
, attributed to King David on the occasion
of his double sin of adultery and murder:
"against you - says David speaking to God -
only have I sinned against thee "(Psalm 51.6)
Benedict XVI
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