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March 10, 2025Dear faithful,
First of all, I express my joy at being with you today to celebrate this Eucharist, the sacrament of the unity in Christ. I bring you the greetings of the many faithful of our Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, a Church of migrants with over a million faithful from over a hundred different nations. It is a great gift from God to experience ‘unity’ in Christ in the diversity of languages and cultures. It is an experience that we can also have in the university. In fact, the word “university Uni-versum means “towards the unity”, through the differences.
The word of God that we just heard helps us to live this experience of unity and diversity. The first reading leads us to recognize the Wisdom of God. The created world, all creatures are wanted by God. We were not born into the world by chance. God made everything with wisdom. Man and woman are called to collaborate with the Creator so that the glory of God shines in the world. When the human creature forgets the wisdom of God, the harmony and love between things and people is broken.
But the wisdom of God is not simply an idea that presides over the creation of the universe. The Fathers of the Church said that the wisdom of God is the eternal Son of God, his eternal word, a creative word, which draws things from nothing and makes them to exist. He is the divine wisdom, he is the center of all things, the center of creation.
For this reason, it is the same wisdom of God that not only creates things in harmony but is also the one who heals the world wounded by sin, by the evil one. This is the meaning of the passage of the Gospel that we have heard. Jesus heals a person, by freeing him from an evil spirit that held him prisoner. Where human beings fail, Jesus, the Son of God and wisdom of God repairs and heals, redeems and saves.
Dear brothers and sisters, you are in this university living intensely your commitment to study, dedicate your daily study to contribute to a more human world. I invite you to consider the wisdom of God. If scientific knowledge of the world allows us to know reality, its laws and to know how to operate in it, no less important is to have the wisdom of God and to learn to look at all things with the heart and eyes of God.
I wish you to grow in knowledge and wisdom so that you can know how to give your contribution to the holy people of God and to the common good, to all humanity that is searching for a meaning for which to live and give life. Jesus Christ, word of God and eternal wisdom of God, has revealed to us that this meaning exists, it is the love of God, it is the kingdom of God for which we are called to work and to give our lives until God will be all in all.
