[Grem] Szentatya / Szt. Mihály arkangyal oltalma alá helyezte a Vatikánt

[Emoke Greschik]

crisismagazine.com

Last Friday, in what was surely a very striking and dramatic papal act,
Pope Francis <http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/07/05/benedict_xvi_joins_pope_francis_in_consecrating_vatican_to_st_michae/en1-707709>
*blessed a dramatic sculpture depicting St Michael the Archangel* battling
with the devil; but* he did a lot more than that: he placed the Vatican
City state and all who live and
work<http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/pope-enlists-st-michael-in-reform-of-curia?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrisisMagazine+%28Crisis+Magazine%29#>there
under the archangel’s protection.
* This is what he said:

In the Vatican Gardens there are several works of art. But this, which has
now been added, takes on particular importance, in its location as well as
the meaning it expresses. In fact it is not just a celebratory work but an
invitation to reflection and prayer, that fits well into the Year of Faith.
Michael—which means ‘Who is like God’—is the champion of the primacy of
God, of His transcendence and power. Michael struggles to restore divine
justice and defends the People of God from his enemies, above all from the
enemy par excellence, the devil.

And *St. Michael wins because in him, it is God who acts*. This sculpture
reminds us, then, that evil is overcome, the enemy is unmasked, his head
crushed, because salvation was accomplished once and for all in the blood
of Christ. *Though the devil always tries to disfigure the face of the
Archangel and that of humanity, God is stronger*, it is His victory and His
salvation that is offered to all men. *We are not alone on the journey or
in the trials of life, we are accompanied and supported by the Angels of
God,* who offer…. their wings to help us overcome so many dangers, in order
to fly high compared to those realities that can weigh down our lives or
drag us down. *In consecrating Vatican City State to St. Michael the
Archangel, I ask him to defend us from the evil one and banish him.*

*Pope Francis’s focus on the devil has aroused comment in the secular press*,
of course, and not without reason. *The secular mind thinks it shows either
that he is some kind of religious maniac, or at the very least that he is
quaintly old-fashioned* in his language. What it actually shows is his
knowledge that* we are all, in our lives, in a continual battle against evil
*. This is a constant focus of the Holy Father’s thinking and teaching. As
Sandro Magister wrote recently, *Francis “refers to [the devil]
continually. He combats him without respite. He does not believe him to be
a myth, but a real person, the most insidious enemy of the Church.”* And *now
he has invoked the protection of the Holy Archangel over Vatican City
itself, and has prayed that he will banish the evil one from its purlieus*.
He sees that there is, unfolding in that place, a struggle between good and
evil. I recently quoted those telling words of his: “… it is difficult. In
the Curia, there are also holy people, really, there are holy people. But
there also is a stream of corruption, there is that as well, it is true…
The ‘gay lobby’ is mentioned, and it is true, it is there… We need to see
what we can do….”
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