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He therefore urged us to remain “vigilant against the fixity of ideology that, often, under the appearance of good intentions, separates us from reality and prevents us from walking.”
Furthermore, he assured that discernment begins “from the top”: “when the service we provide runs the risk of flattening out, of ‘labyrinthine’ in rigidity or mediocrity, when we find ourselves entangled in the networks of bureaucracy and ‘ “get out of trouble’, let us remember to look upward, to begin again from God, to allow ourselves to be illuminated by his Word, to always find the courage to begin again.”
“It takes courage to walk, to advance further. “It is a matter of love,” said the Holy Father. He also explained that the difficulty today “consists of transmitting passion to those who lost it a long time ago” and specified that “sixty years after the Council, we continue to debate the division between ‘progressives’ and ‘conservatives’, while the central difference It is between ‘in love’ and ‘accustomed’. This is the difference. “And only those who love walk,” he stated.
Finally, he thanked the members of the Roman Curia for their work, especially that carried out “in silence” and also asked them not to lose their sense of humor.
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