Saturday, February 6, 2010

Pope: Conversion to Christ Breaks Bonds of Selfishness and Helps Create a Just Society

Conversion to Christ gives people the strength to break the bonds of selfishness and work for justice in the world, Pope Benedict XVI said in his message for Lent 2010, according to the Catholic News website.

"The Christian is moved to contribute to creating just societies where all receive what is necessary to live according to the dignity proper to the human person and where justice is enlivened by love," the pope said in the message released February 4, 2010 at the Vatican.

Because people are created in God's image, they not only need food, water, shelter, and jobs; they need God and they need love, he said.

"Conversion to Christ, believing in the Gospel, ultimately means this: to exit the illusion of self-sufficiency in order to discover and accept one's own need -- the need of others and God, the need of His forgiveness and His friendship," the pope wrote.

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