POPE FRANCIS
“I wish to assure my prayers and solidarity with the hostages and their families, and I appeal to the humanity of the kidnappers to release the victims.”
“I wish to assure my prayers and solidarity with the hostages and their families, and I appeal to the humanity of the kidnappers to release the victims.”
As a point of reference, the Pope recalled other conflicts that
were able to achieve peace in severalLatin
American countries. He also stressed that “all is lost with war. All is gained with
peace.”
“They slowly
slipped on that autonomy, the independence in their relationship with God: ‘We
don’t need a Master: he shouldn’t come and disturb us!’ And we go forward with
this. These are the corrupt! These were sinners like all of us, but they have
taken a step beyond that, as if they were confirmed in their sin: they don’t
need God! But this is only on the outside, for in their genetic code a
relationship with God still exists. And since they can’t deny this, they make
'a special god': they themselves are god. These are the corrupt.”
“Judas was the first: from a greedy sinner, he ended in corruption. The road of autonomy is a dangerous one: the corrupt are very forgetful, they have forgotten how lovingly God made them, the vineyard! They severed the relationship with this love! And they become worshipers of themselves. How bad are the corrupt in the Christian community! May the Lord deliver us from sliding down this road of corruption.”
“And then there are the saints. I like to speak about saints, on the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII, a model of holiness. In today's Gospel, he added, saints are those who go to collect the rent from the vineyard. They do not know what awaits them, but they do their duty anyways.”
“The saints are those who obey the Lord, those who worship the Lord, those who have not lost the memory of the love with which the Lord has made the vineyard: the saints in the Church. Just as the corrupt do so much harm to the Church, the saints do so much good. The apostle John says of the corrupt that they are the antichrist, that they are among us, but they do not belong to us. About the saints, the Word of God tells us they are like light, ‘that they will be before the throne of God in adoration.’ Today we ask the Lord for the grace to understand that we are sinners, true sinners. Not just broad sinners, but sinners with regard to this, that, and all other things; concrete sins, with the concreteness of sin. The grace to not become corrupt: sinners, yes; corrupt, no! And the grace to walk in the path of holiness. So be it.”
“Judas was the first: from a greedy sinner, he ended in corruption. The road of autonomy is a dangerous one: the corrupt are very forgetful, they have forgotten how lovingly God made them, the vineyard! They severed the relationship with this love! And they become worshipers of themselves. How bad are the corrupt in the Christian community! May the Lord deliver us from sliding down this road of corruption.”
“And then there are the saints. I like to speak about saints, on the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII, a model of holiness. In today's Gospel, he added, saints are those who go to collect the rent from the vineyard. They do not know what awaits them, but they do their duty anyways.”
“The saints are those who obey the Lord, those who worship the Lord, those who have not lost the memory of the love with which the Lord has made the vineyard: the saints in the Church. Just as the corrupt do so much harm to the Church, the saints do so much good. The apostle John says of the corrupt that they are the antichrist, that they are among us, but they do not belong to us. About the saints, the Word of God tells us they are like light, ‘that they will be before the throne of God in adoration.’ Today we ask the Lord for the grace to understand that we are sinners, true sinners. Not just broad sinners, but sinners with regard to this, that, and all other things; concrete sins, with the concreteness of sin. The grace to not become corrupt: sinners, yes; corrupt, no! And the grace to walk in the path of holiness. So be it.”
June 3, 2013.
(Romereports.com) Pope Francis was visited by a group of young
cancer patients who are being treated at Rome's Agostino Gemelli hospital. They
all prayed together, and a young girl read the Pope a very moving letter.
“I am happy I can see you in person, and not as I usually do in television. At Lourdes, we prayed for you: we made you a sketch of the grotto, as a present. We promise we will pray for you and we ask you to pray for all the sick children at the hospital and all over the world. Please bless all the mothers and fathers, so that they will have a wonderful smile, just like yours!”
Pope Francis blessed the audience, which also included the hospital's medical staff and several volunteers. Then, the Pope made a special request to the children.
Pope Francis
“At this moment, Jesus comes to you and gives you a big hug.
And I ask you one last favor: pray for me! Will you do that? Are you sure? Great!”
At the end of the meeting, the Pope took the time to individually greet the 22 children and their families.
“I am happy I can see you in person, and not as I usually do in television. At Lourdes, we prayed for you: we made you a sketch of the grotto, as a present. We promise we will pray for you and we ask you to pray for all the sick children at the hospital and all over the world. Please bless all the mothers and fathers, so that they will have a wonderful smile, just like yours!”
Pope Francis blessed the audience, which also included the hospital's medical staff and several volunteers. Then, the Pope made a special request to the children.
Pope Francis
“At this moment, Jesus comes to you and gives you a big hug.
And I ask you one last favor: pray for me! Will you do that? Are you sure? Great!”
At the end of the meeting, the Pope took the time to individually greet the 22 children and their families.
June 3, 2013.
(Romereports.com) Pope Francis welcomed the so called “world's poorest president”, Uruguayan José
Mújica, at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace.
President
“This is so impressive, I feel overwhelmed.”
The meeting was longer than usual and lasted 45 minutes. According to the Vatican, various issues were addressed, such as “the integral development of persons, respect for human rights justice and social peace.”
The president also asked that the Church 'do everything possible so that the peace process in Colombia continues and comes to fruition.'
Mújica reminded the Pope that they shared a mutual friend, theologian and writer Alberto Methol Ferrè, who died in 2009. The Pope admitted the author's writing was thought provoking.
So, as a gift, the president gave the Pope a book authored by Ferre. Pope Francis presented Mújica with the final resolutions of the 2007 Latin American bishops conference in Aparecida, Brazil, and a lithograph.
The fun continued when Pope Francis had a chance to meet with the president's staff.
The Pope described Mujica's visit as a meeting with “a wise man,” and the president did not hide his emotions.
President
“This is so impressive, I feel overwhelmed.”
The meeting was longer than usual and lasted 45 minutes. According to the Vatican, various issues were addressed, such as “the integral development of persons, respect for human rights justice and social peace.”
The president also asked that the Church 'do everything possible so that the peace process in Colombia continues and comes to fruition.'
Mújica reminded the Pope that they shared a mutual friend, theologian and writer Alberto Methol Ferrè, who died in 2009. The Pope admitted the author's writing was thought provoking.
So, as a gift, the president gave the Pope a book authored by Ferre. Pope Francis presented Mújica with the final resolutions of the 2007 Latin American bishops conference in Aparecida, Brazil, and a lithograph.
The fun continued when Pope Francis had a chance to meet with the president's staff.
The Pope described Mujica's visit as a meeting with “a wise man,” and the president did not hide his emotions.
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