2023-10-04 02:00:00
According to the Successor of Peter, this look of Jesus “also invites us to be a Church that welcomes, not with closed doors. In a complex time like the current one, new cultural and pastoral challenges arise, which require a cordial and kind interior attitude, to be able to confront ourselves without fear.”
“In the synodal dialogue, in this beautiful ‘march in the Holy Spirit’, which we carry out together as the People of God, we can grow in unity and friendship with the Lord to observe the current challenges with his gaze,” he remarked.
In this sense, Pope Francis clarified that the Church must not be rigid, “a customs that armors itself against the world and looks to the past” and neither “a lukewarm Church, which surrenders to the fashions of the world” nor a Church “tired, withdrawn into itself.”
Later, he recalled that Saint Francis of Assisi, whose name day is celebrated this October 4, “in a period of great struggles and divisions between temporal and religious power, between the institutional Church and heretical currents, between Christians and other believers “He did not criticize or attack anyone, he only embraced the weapons of the Gospel: humility and unity, prayer and charity,” and urged everyone to imitate his example.
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