For this you can rely on the incomparable help of your martyrs. For several decades you have been put to the test by a horrible sequence of violence and killing. At the root of these deeply regrettable incidents is a perverse logic which must be denounced. No motive, cause or ideology can justify it. Only peace builds peoples.
Terror is the enemy of humanity.
Listening to Jesus means following and imitating him. The cross has a very special place on this journey. There is a direct connection between the cross and our transfiguration. Now, in the celebration of the Eucharist Jesus gives his Body and his Blood so that, in a certain way, we can have a foretaste here on earth of our final state, when our mortal bodies will be transfigured in the likeness of Christ's glorious body. May Mary, Queen of Martyrs, help us to listen to and imitate her Son.