South Korean cardinal tells Catholics to 'put love into action'

April 21, 2014 - South Korean Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung urged Catholics to imitate the Korean martyrs and "bravely put love into action." In his Easter message, released April 18, the cardinal who is Archbishop of Seoul, also prayed "for those suffering from pain either materially or spiritually,” and invoked abundant blessing on their separated brothers in North Korea. Citing Pope Francis, the cardinal warned that “a heart occupied by the desire to … possess things,” is empty of God. In the society where people place their security in the goods of this world, we Christians should continue to share and love,” Cardinal Yeom urged. “We bring to Heaven only that which we have shared with others; and security - definitive security - is in God," he said. The cardinal reminded people to work for peace "by embracing and understanding those who think differently from us." He reminded people that the apostles were "ordinary people who were uneducated, timid and weak; they deserted their teacher and ran away when Jesus was arrested and persecuted." Yet after the resurrection, he said, when they received the Holy Spirit, "they gave testimony of the resurrection of Christ with all their hearts and with all their souls and with all their strength and with all their minds." 8Source: CNS)