Sunday Evangelium - Totus2us

Fr Andrew: "This warning not to empty the power of the Cross was the title of the third and final part of the most important document Pope John Paul II ever wrote on the moral life. That document was called 'Veritatis Splendor' - 'The Splendour of Truth', and Pope John Paul II witnessed to that truth by becoming a kind of icon of the Cross in the last days of his life. His body was crucified by suffering and disability, the lingering effects of an assasination attempt and Parkinson's disease. In the words of that chilling phrase, heard ever more frequently in today's society, the last days of the earthly life of the Holy Father might have been considered a 'life not worth living'. Yet the evidence for the supernatural power of his last days were shown especially in the signs that followed his death. In a great outpouring of grief over 5 million people came to Rome to pay their last respects in person, and his funeral was watched on television by over 2 billion people. Rather than being a life that was 'not wo