2023-10-11 02:00:00
In this sense, Pope Francis explained that “to feel compassion means both to suffer with the victims of so much inhumanity in the world, and also to feel sorry for those who commit errors and injustices, not by justifying, but by humanizing.”
For the Successor of Peter, Saint Bakhita was able to forgive after first receiving “the merciful love of God,” and this turned her “into a free and joyful woman, capable of loving.”
“Bakhita,” the Pontiff continued, “was able to live service not as slavery, but as an expression of the free gift of herself. This is very important: having become a forced servant, she freely chose to become a servant, to carry the burdens of others on her shoulders.
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