Bishop Manuel Linda of Porto said in a Body of God Day sermon this Thursday that society seems to be becoming “a kind of sleepwalking city, automatons devoid of love and care.”
Manuel Linda’s sermon entitled “Only the same bread makes a family” reflects on life in modern society. “If we feed on hatred and division, then social cancer and other degenerative diseases are born. But if we feed on the Bread of harmony, then brotherhood, care, care, union and cooperation become creative.
“And there is so much lack of social health, especially at the level of the helpless old, the despised unproductive, the frail insecure, the young people left to fend for themselves, the multitudes being indecently exploited. Without unhealthy pessimism, it seems that in the current economic and cultural cycle, society is becoming a kind of city of lunatics, robots deprived of love and care,” he added.