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Carlo Acutis, fifteen years old, beatified yesterday, “shows the young people of today that true happiness is found by putting God first and serving him in brothers and sisters, especially the little ones.” Pope Francis also calls for the resumption of the truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) – Let us pray that “the lay faithful, especially women, may participate more in the institutions of responsibility in the Church, without falling into clericalism that nullifies the lay charism.” This was the reflection of Pope Francis after the Angelus, when he also called for a “resumption” of the truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan and recalled the beatification of Carlo Acutis, 15, indicating him as a “model” for young people today.
Pope Francis recited the Marian prayer together with a few thousand people present in St. Peter’s Square on a rainy Sunday. Commenting on today’s Gospel passage on the parable of the wedding banquet, the Pope stressed that twice in history, the king’s servants are sent to call the guests “but they refuse, they don’t want to go to the celebration, because they have other things to think about. ”
Pope Francis stressed that “many times we also put our interests and material things before the Lord who calls us. But the king in the parable does not want the room to be empty, because he wants to donate the treasures of his kingdom and extends the invitation until the most distant, “without excluding anyone”, because “no one is excluded from the house of God.” The king in effect says: “Call everyone, good and bad. All. “” God also calls the bad.
In this way too the Church “is called to reach the crossroads of today, that is, to the geographical and existential peripheries of humanity”, all those places where “shreds of hopeless humanity live.” “It is a question of not opting for the comfortable and habitual paths of evangelization and witness to charity, but rather of opening the doors of our hearts and of our communities to all, because the Gospel is not reserved for a select few. Even the marginalized, even those rejected and despised by society, are considered by God worthy of his love.
It was after the Angelus that Francis said that he “appreciated that a humanitarian ceasefire had been agreed between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with a view to reaching a substantial peace agreement. Although the truce turns out to be too fragile, I encourage it to be resumed and I express my participation in the pain of the loss of human life, the suffering, as well as the destruction of homes and places of worship. I pray and invite you to pray for the victims and for all those whose lives are in danger. “
“Yesterday, in Assisi – he said later – Carlo Acutis, a fifteen-year-old boy, in love with the Eucharist, was beatified. He did not settle in a comfortable immobility, but understood the needs of his time, because in the weakest he saw the face His testimony indicates to the young people of today that true happiness is found by putting God first and serving him in our brothers and sisters, especially the little ones ”.
The Pope then recalled “the intention of prayer that I proposed for this month of October, which says: ‘Let us pray that the lay faithful, especially women, participate more in the institutions of responsibility of the Church.’ Because none of us have been baptized a priest or bishop: we have all been baptized as lay people. Lay people are protagonists of the Church. Today it is necessary to expand the spaces of a more incisive feminine presence in the Church, and of a lay presence, of Claro, but with emphasis in the feminine aspect, because in general women are neglected. We must promote the integration of women in places where important decisions are made. Let us pray that, by virtue of baptism, the lay faithful, especially women, participate more in the institutions of responsibility in the Church, without falling into clericalisms that nullify the lay charism and also ruin the face of Holy Mother Church ”.
“Next Sunday, October 18 – he finally said – the Foundation Aid to the Church in Need promotes the initiative ‘For unity and peace, one million children pray the Rosary.” I encourage this beautiful event that involves children from all over the world, who will pray especially for the critical situations caused by the pandemic ”.
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