President Azero Ilham Aliyev, US President Donald Trump and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the Trilateral interview in Washington.
«Today in the Gospel Jesus invites us to reflect on How to invest the treasure of our life. He says: “Sell what you own and give it in alms.” In other words, he urges us not to keep the gifts for us that God has done to us, but to use them generously for the good of others, especially of those who need our help most “. Pope Leo XIV begins with these words the reflection on the Gospel of today, 10 August, feast of San Lorenzo, deacon and martyr. «It is not only about sharing the material things we have, but of put our skills, our time, our affection, our presence, our empathy. In short, everything that makes each of us, in the drawings of God, a unique, priceless good, a living capital, button, Which to grow asks to be cultivated and invested, otherwise he unleashes and devalued. Or ends up lost, at the mercy of those who, like a thief, are appropriate to simply make it an object of consumption ».
The Pontiff continues: «The gift of God that we are is not made to run out like this. It needs space, freedom, relationship, to realize and express itself: it needs love, which only transforms and ennobles every aspect of our existence, Making us more and more like God. It is no coincidence that Jesus pronounces these words while on the way to Jerusalem, where on the cross he will offer himself for our salvation. The works of Mercy are the safest and most profitable bank to entrust the treasure of our existence, Because there, as the Gospel teaches us, with “two pennies” also a poor widow becomes the richest person in the world ».
“Sant’Agostino, in this regard, says:” One would already be happy if from a pound of bronze dwelling one of silver, or from a silver one of gold; but from what you give you something really different, not gold or silver, but eternal life “. And explains why:” The thing will be changed because the one who gives it will be changed “. And to understand what it means, we can think of a mother who holds her children to himself: isn’t he the most beautiful and richest person in the world? Or two boyfriends, when they are together: don’t they feel a king and a queen? And we could do many other examples. Therefore, in the family, in the parish, at school and in the workplace, wherever we are, we try not to miss any opportunity to love. This is the vigilance that Jesus asks us: to get used to being careful, ready, sensitive to each other as he is with us in every moment ».
The Pope concludes: «Sisters and brothers, we entrust to Mary this desire and this commitment: help us, the morning star, to be, in a world marked by so many divisions, “Sentinels” of mercy and peaceas St. John Paul II taught us and how the young people who came to Rome for the Jubilee have shown us in such a beautiful way ».
After the recitation of the Angelus prayer, the Pope renews his appeal for peace all over the world: “We continue to pray to put an end to the wars.” Remember the 80th anniversary of the launch of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively on 6 and 9 August, which “has awakened the necessary refusal of the war all over the world as a way for the resolution of conflicts. Those who make decisions make always keep their responsibilities in mind, the consequences of their choices on populations. Do not ignore the needs of the weakest and the universal desire for peace ». The Pope He expresses his congratulations on Armenia and Azerbaijan “who have reached the signature of the joint peace declaration. I hope that this event can contribute to a stable and lasting peace in the southern Caucasus ». Last August 8 in Washington, President Azero Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US President Donald Trump have walked to interviews led by the United States and Signed a historical agreement aimed at putting an end to a war between the two Caucasian countries that has been going on for over 30 years. The agreement also leads to a relaxation and reopening of relations between the USA and Azerbaijan.
Leone XIV instead expresses his concern for “The situation of the population of Haiti” which “is increasingly desperate. There are news of murders, violence of all kinds. These are human beings, and forced and seizures. I address a heartfelt appeal to all those responsible so that the hostages are freely freed. And I ask for the concrete support of the international community to create the social and institutional conditions that allow the Haitians to live in peace ». In the battered Carabica Island, the crisis is increasingly dramatic. In the first six months of 2025 more than three thousand people died due to the violence of the criminal gang, which dominate throughout the country – the poorest of the Americas- and now hold control of large parts of the island, in particular in the port-au-prince capital, where they control 70% of the territory, in a condition of absence of the state and emptiness of the institutions.
