“The voice of weapons must be silent while the voice of fraternity and justice must rise.” Pope Leone prays to return peace to Ukraine, where “unfortunately war continues to sow death and destruction”. He asks that the fire immediately ceases and that the “managers give up the logic of arms and take the path of peace with the support of the international community”. Pray for the victims of the massacre in the Minnesota school and for migrants who have lost their lives in the shipwreck along the coasts of Mauritania. “I was a foreigner and you hosted me,” he underlines me remembering that every day everywhere in the world those looking for better living conditions ends up losing their lives. And then, in underlining the importance of the World Day for Creation that is celebrated on September 2, he decided to extend it until 4 October, the day of St. Francis of Assisi who, just 800 years ago, composed the Canticle of the Creatures.
Before he had explained that “it is not easy to stay at the table invitation together, yet this” enlarges the space of the heart and being guests asks for the humility to enter the world of others “. Pope Leone explaining the Sunday Gospel that tells the invitation to the lunch of Jesus by the head of the Pharisees underlines that “a culture of the meeting feeds on these gestures that approach”, explains Prevost. «Meeting is not always easy. The evangelist notes that the diners “were to observe” Jesus, and in general he was looked at with a certain suspicion by the most rigorous interpreters of tradition “. The meeting takes place and Jesus “is really guest, with respect and authenticity. Renounce those good manners who are only formalities to avoid involving each other. Thus, in his own style, with a parable, he describes what he sees and invites those who observe him to think. In fact, he noticed that there is a race to take the first places. This also happens today, not in the family, but on occasions when it counts “to be noticed”; Then being together turns into a competition ».
The Pope invites you to reflect on how “we often reduce life to a race, how we become broken down to get some recognition, how we compare each other unnecessarily”. Then better “stop to reflect, let us shake by a word that questioned the priorities that take care of our hearts: it is an experience of freedom. Jesus calls us to freedom ».
And then he underlines that “the word” humility “is used in the Gospel to describe the complete form of freedom. Humility, in fact, is freedom by oneself. It was born when the kingdom of God and his justice have truly taken our interest and we can afford to look far: not the tip of our feet, but far! Those who exalt themselves, generally, seem to have found nothing more interesting than themselves, and basically it is very unwilling than itself. But those who have understood that they are so precious in the eyes of God, who feels deeply to be the son or daughter of God, have bigger things to be exalted and has a dignity that shines with herself. It comes in the foreground, it is in first place, effortlessly and without strategies, when instead of using situations we learn to serve ».
And, therefore, he hopes that the “Church is a gym of humility for everyone, that is, that house in which we have always welcome, where places should not be conquered, where Jesus can still take the floor and educate us to his humility, his freedom”. A house whose Mary “is truly the mother”.
