The very morning that Cardinal Bergoglio was to be elected pope, he read this in the Office of Readings:
“Why do you treat your servant so badly,” Moses asked the Lord. “Why are you so displeased with me that you burden me with all this people? Was it I who conceived all this people? or was it I who gave them birth, that you tell me to carry them at my bosom, like a foster father carrying an infant, to the land you have promised under oath to their fathers? …I cannot carry all this people by myself, for they are too heavy for me. If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face this distress.”
Seemed to me an ironic juxtaposition.
