Luanda, 26 March, 2024 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of Angola’s Luanda Archdiocese has cautioned Christians against excluding God in their daily activities.
In his Palm Sunday homily at the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Major Seminary in Luanda, Archbishop Dias highlighted the negative effects of not giving God the rightful place.
“Where we exclude God, life ceases to be beautiful and loses its charm and beauty. Where we exclude God, our coexistence isn't better, it's worse; where we exclude God, life doesn't flourish and fraternity, solidarity have no space, no breath,” the Angolan Archbishop said.
He added, “Where we exclude God, life withers. Where we exclude God, life dies. Where we exclude God, there is no more light; there is darkness. The other person ceases to be a person; the father ceases to be a father; the neighbour, the colleague from school or work, the friend can radically become a stranger, an enemy, an adversary.’
“Those who think differently become the enemy to be fought, to be destroyed, not even the fundamental rights they sometimes have as citizens. They are excluded because they don't belong to my club,” Archbishop Dias said.
