2023-11-16 22:25:40
Pope Francis asks Spanish-speaking priests serving in North America to work and pray for suffering people, learning from the living book of Jesus.
Monsignor Joji Vadakara, Vatican News
Pope Francis said that the weakness felt by the women who stood under the cross of Christ is still felt by many disciples of Christ today. Yes, challenges and weaknesses, the Pope said, we face and experience in front of the problems faced by immigrants, in front of multiculturalism, in front of the complexity of evangelization and in front of the closed attitude taken by some civil and religious leaders. The Pope said this while speaking at the Vatican on November 16 to the Spanish-speaking priests serving in North America who came to see him.
Referring to the election of St. Manuel Gonzalez and Blessed Carlo Acutis as heavenly mediators at next year’s meeting of the National Divine Mercy Congress in North America, the Pope, while answering questions from Spanish-speaking priests serving in North America, cited some incidents from the catechism of St. Manuel Gonzalez, about the attitude we should adopt in the face of the sufferings that people face today. exhorted.
The Pope reiterated to the priests what St. Manuel, teaching about the people who suffer in the world, reminded them that the suffering of Jesus does not end, and that from every sacrary and casa being consecrated, Jesus’ question arises if you can do something to reduce his pain. The Pope explained that even today, Jesus invites each suffering brother and sister to comfort the pain he feels. God wants them not to be left alone. Jesus asks us not to stop suffering, but to glorify God in the midst of it.
Wishing that the Lord in Zacharias would answer your concerns, the Pope said that some of the answers may seem innocent to you, like the efforts of Carlo Acutis, who tried to present things to him experientially, as “a wide road to heaven”, but some things, like the social and apostolic work put forward by Saint Manuel, may seem too big to you. As a shepherd, Saint Manuel exhorted us to start now what a priest can do, through simple prayer, words of closeness, accepting others with sisterhood and persevering action.
Instead of trusting only in big ideas or well-defined pastoral directives, or looking for mistakes, the Pope called on priests to give themselves to the one who called you to surrender. He demands from you loyalty and constancy. The Pope added that it will be God who completes your actions and brings forth good results from them.
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