ZAGREB, March 16 (Hina) - The Zagreb Archbishop, Cardinal Josip Bozanic, has called on the faithful in his message for Lent to think about the virtue of moderation as this is very important in everyday life. The message was released
by the Zagreb Archbishop's public relations office on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, March 16 (Hina) - The Zagreb Archbishop, Cardinal Josip
Bozanic, has called on the faithful in his message for Lent to think
about the virtue of moderation as this is very important in everyday
life. The message was released by the Zagreb Archbishop's public
relations office on Tuesday.#L#
According to the message of the Primate of the Roman Catholic Church
in Croatia, the virtue of moderation teaches persons how to exercise
control over themselves, which is the source of small joys and
pleasures of life, while impatience, immoderation and the wish to see
and know everything are sources of dissatisfaction and tensions.
"Nowadays we can find the virtue of moderation in (the moderate
consumption of) food and drink; in purity and the fostering of pure
views, imagination and acts opposing sexual disorder which can turn
into perversion, causing many evils; in modesty as well as in
moderation in the use of material goods, particularly money; in sound
personal and social recognition, in moderation in aspiring for success
and honour, the opposition of which are arrogance and craving for
power; in moderation in the passion for victory, in avoiding
curiosity, and in the sensible spending of time," the cardinal says.
He reminds the faithful that it is necessary for man to possess things
and use them but not depend on them or base his mental and spiritual
condition, his satisfaction and happiness on them.
In times of crises and uncertainties as well as privation it is
important not to lose the spiritual view and ability to distinguish
what is really necessary from what is perhaps not good.
"We shall live peacefully and calmly if we replace selfishness with
solidarity," he says, adding that the consumerist mentality destroys
man.
"Life is a gift and an obligation, and it is necessary to protect life
and watch over freedom," Bozanic says in his message for Lent.
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