Following the Christmas holidays, marked by family gatherings and gift exchanges, columnist Mossèn Pere Rovira points out the return to the “stubborn daily reality,” where armed conflicts, social injustices, and the tense climate of politics and corruption persist.
As long as the human being does not locate the authentic problem, the deep wound of their heart, we will remain lost in the diagnosis.
Rovira argues that the solution to global problems is not found in blaming others or in the constant search for enemies, but in the human heart itself, free of ideological biases. This heart, he states, is capable both of “sublime, devoted and generous” love and of becoming an “authentic monster” capable of destruction.
The text addresses how fear and egocentrism lead people to constantly seek external gratifications to fill the existential void: from consumption without measure and the pursuit of pleasure without commitment, to the abuse of alcohol or drugs, seeking “hallucinogenic distractions.”
Finally, Mossèn Pere Rovira concludes that the only way to satisfy this void is to find existential answers, which he identifies with the message of Christmas: a God who becomes history and presence, allowing us to look at the future “without fear and with hope.”
