AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Kutuwa urges a conversion of hearts and minds: "Yes, this pandemic will surely pass, but what will it have taught us?"

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Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic, like death, will never have the last word on the history of men because Christ is, and will always be, victorious over death, from any form of death", said Cardinal Jean Pierre Kutuwa, Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan, in his Easter Mass homily, broadcast live on Ivorian national television, RTI1. "Yes, this pandemic will surely pass, but what will it have taught us?", insisted Cardinal Kutuwa, who called for a change in mentality and behavior. "From now on, we must be active, review the scale of our individual values, personal, community and national, and accept to let ourselves be questioned by the world that God offers to all of us".
"Today families are forced to create common activities; believers unable to find themselves in their usual places of worship have become inventive, generous and more responsible in prayer", added the Cardinal.
"Our States, even the most powerful, are forced to admit their limits. Men and women, rich or poor, realize their finesse and the vanity of many things" he remarked, remembering that we are all on the same boat in front of death.
Cardinal Kutuwa said "Since this pandemic will surely end, let us commit ourselves to take the path of Galilee, the path that leads to the other and discover the person of Christ in each of our brothers". At the end of this pandemic, we can sincerely, together, repeat the words of the psalmist: "we thank the Lord because he is good, his love is eternal", concluded the Cardinal.
To April 15 there have been 654 positive cases of Covid-19 of which 146 recovered and 6 died in the Ivory Coast. (S.S.) (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides, 16/4/2020)