![The Pope: «May humanitarian aid reach Gaza» The Pope: «May humanitarian aid reach Gaza»](https://media.famigliacristiana.it/2024/6/rts11r5qb_3427180.jpg)
Concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which is worsening day by day. Pope Francis thanks Jordan and the countries that will meet on Monday to deal with precisely this. And, says the Pontiff, «while I thank you for this important initiative, I encourage the international community to act urgently to help the war-exhausted population of Gaza» and pushes for the arrival of «humanitarian aid. They have to arrive and no one can stop it.” Remembering the ten years since the prayer for peace with “the late Simon Peres” and with Abu Mazen, he underlines that “that meeting testifies that shaking hands is possible and that making peace takes much more courage than making war » and encourages that «the peace proposals for the ceasefire and for the release of the hostages are accepted». He does not even forget the tormented Ukrainian population, greeting those in St. Peter’s Square who brought the yellow and blue flags, Myanmar and the other countries at war. «This is a desire for peace, therefore I encourage all efforts so that peace can be built as soon as possible», he declares.
Before the Angelus he had commented on the Gospel of the day with Jesus who begins his public ministry and finds himself faced with a “double reaction: that of his relatives, who were worried and feared he had gone mad, and that of the religious authorities, who they accused of acting moved by an evil spirit. In reality, Jesus preached and healed the sick with the power of the Holy Spirit.” But it is precisely the Spirit that “made him divinely free, that is, capable of loving and serving without measure and without conditioning”. Jesus, explains the Pope, «was free in the face of riches: therefore he left the safety of his village, Nazareth, to embrace a poor life full of uncertainties, treating the sick free of charge and anyone who came to ask him for help, without ever asking for anything in exchange”. But he was also free “in the face of power: in fact, although he called many to follow him, he never forced anyone to do so, nor did he ever seek the support of the powerful, but he always placed himself on the side of the least, teaching his disciples to do the same.”
Finally he was «free when faced with the search for fame and approval, and for this reason he never gave up telling the truth, even at the cost of not being understood, of becoming unpopular, to the point of dying on the cross, not allowing himself to be intimidated, nor buy, nor bribe from anything or anyone.”
An example for all of us because it teaches us that «if we allow ourselves to be influenced by the search for pleasure, power, money or approval, we become slaves to these things. If, however, we allow the free love of God to fill and dilate our hearts, and if we let it overflow spontaneously by giving it back to others, with all of ourselves, without fears, calculations and conditioning, then we grow in freedom, and we spread its good scent even around us, in our homes, in our families and in our communities.” So it is worth asking ourselves whether or not we are free people, whether we allow ourselves to be “imprisoned by the myths of money, power and success, sacrificing to these our own and others’ serenity and peace” and to ask God for the gift of freedom. of children.