Archbishop Paul Cremona has urged the faithful to get over their disappointment over the outcome of the divorce referendum, and instead to pray to the Holy Spirit to enable them to be witnesses of the faith.
In a homily to mark Pentecost, Mgr Cremona said the challenge for the faithful was to 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to give to God what belongs to God".
The Catholic Community should be recognised by giving God what belonged to God, by living according to His teaching, and by proclaiming the Word.
"Are you ready to give the Lord what belongs to the Lord in our secular society?" Mgr Cremona asked his listeners.
The Church, Mgr Cremona said, had found itself in a different social reality, where marriage and families were marked by divorce and society was, at least on the social media, aggressive. It was incumbent on the faithful to not only live the faith, but to proclaim it.
He said that after the referendum, the Church could say that it had done its best, in line with the teachings of the Lord, to avert the introduction of divorce, and he wished to thank all those who had worked towards this end.
Mgr Cremona recalled the challenges which the early Church had faced. He urged the faithful to recall those times so that they could work on the building of the Church according to the teachings of Christ in current times.
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