The Pope says that the recovery of the pandemic involves the choice between money or the common good

Celebrating mass on Easter Monday, Pope Francis prayed that the political and economic planning for the recovery after the coronavirus pandemic should be inspired by spending for the common good and not for "divine money".

"Today assigned to government officials, politicians (and) politicians who have begun to study the way out, the post-pandemic, this 'after' that has already begun, has always found the right way to benefit their people", The pope said at the beginning of his morning mass on April 13.

At the mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the homily of Pope Francis focused on the contrast found in reading the day of the Gospel of St. Matthew: the female disciples are "fearful but very happy" to find the tomb of Jesus empty, while the high priests and the elders pay the soldiers to spread the lie that the disciples stole the body from the grave.

"Today's Gospel presents us with a choice, a choice to be made every day, a human choice, but one that persists since that day: the choice between the joy and hope of the resurrection of Jesus or the desire for the grave", the pope She said.

The Gospel says that women run away from the grave to tell other disciples that Jesus is risen, the Pope observed. “God always starts with women. Always. They open the way. They don't doubt; they know. They saw it, touched it. "

"It is true that the disciples could not believe him and said: 'But perhaps these women are a little too imaginative' - I don't know, they had their doubts," said the pope. But the women were certain and their message continues to resonate today: “Jesus is risen; lives among us. "

But the high priests and the elders, said the pope, could only think: “How many problems will cause us, this empty tomb. And they decide to hide the fact. "

The story is always the same, he said. "When we don't serve the Lord God, we serve the other god, the money."

"Even today, looking at the arrival - and hopefully soon - at the end of this pandemic, there is the same choice," said Pope Francis. "Either our bet will be on life, on the resurrection of people, or it will be on the money of the god, returning to the tomb of hunger, slavery, war, the manufacture of weapons, children without education - the tomb is there."

The pope concluded his homily by praying that God would help people choose life in their personal decisions and in those of society and that those responsible for planning the exit from the blocks would choose "the good of the people and would never fall into the tomb of god the money