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Pope Francis supports U.S. Bishops in migrant advocacy Pope Francis addresses a letter to the bishops of the United States, expressing his support for their efforts to protect the rights and dignity of migrants.
Pope Francis receives Abrahamic Family House Delegation in Vatican
Pope Francis received a delegation from the Abrahamic Family House in the Vatican. The House is a single complex which encompasses in the United Arab Emirates’ capital of Abu Dhabi, a synagogue, a church and a mosque. The three Houses of Worship it encompasses are the His Eminence Ahmed Al-Tayeb Mosque, the St Francis Catholic Church, which is dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi, and the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue.
‘Palestine is suffering inhumane attacks’ Pope Francis reiterates his appeal for peace in the world, saying the fatality statistics coming from Ukraine are “terrible” and that Palestine is suffering “inhumane attacks.”
By Kielce Gussie – At the end of his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis once again made an appeal for peace in the world. The Pope explained he had received statistics on the number of deaths in Ukraine, calling it “terrible.” Last month, the Wall Street Journal released information stating the number of fatalities reached one million people—both Ukrainian and Russian. Ukrainian officials reported that more than 12,000 civilians had been killed in the month of June alone.
In his appeal, Pope Francis reiterated that “war is a defeat from the very beginning” and that it “does not forgive.” “Let us pray to the Lord for peace; may He give peace to all, to all of us,” he said. “And let us not forget Myanmar; let us not forget Palestine, which is suffering inhumane attacks; let us not forget Israel, and let us not forget all nations at war.”
The UN’s Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator reported that no food has entered Gaza since October 2, adding that food supplies are running low. Pope Francis also lamented the massive financial outlay on arms manufacturing, which he said “yields the most profit today.” This, he said, “is a statistic that should frighten us.” The global arms trade was valued at just under 100 billion euros in 2021, according to the most recently available data.
Sunday 20th October 2024 Message of the Holy Father for World Mission Day https://saintanneline.com/partners/missio/
At the Press Room of the Holy See, His Holiness Pope Francis unveiled a message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation anticipated on September 1st: “To hope and act with creation, then, means above all to join forces and to walk together with all men and women of good will.”
The following is taken from the general audience of Pope Francis on Wednesday, 12 June 2024 (The full text can be found here https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2024/documents/20240612-udienza-generale.html
Brothers and sisters, the Church is nourished by the spiritual reading of the Sacred Scripture, that is, by reading under the guidance of the Holy Spirit that inspired it. One way of conducting spiritual reading of the word of God is that which is called the lectio divina, a word whose meaning we perhaps do not understand. It consists of dedicating a time of the day to the personal and meditative reading of a passage of the Scripture. And this is very important: every day, take the time to listen to, to contemplate, reading a passage from the Scripture. And therefore, I recommend you always to have a pocket edition of the Gospel and keep it in your bag, in your pocket… So, when you are travelling, or have a little free time, take it and read it. This is very important for life. Get a pocket Gospel and during the day read once, twice, when you have the chance.
The quintessential spiritual reading of the Scripture is the community reading in the Liturgy in the Mass. There, we see how an event or a teaching, given by the Old Testament, finds its full expression in the Gospel of Christ. Among the many words of God that we listen to every day in Mass or in the Liturgy of the Hours, there is always one that is meant specially for us. Something that touches the heart. Welcomed into the heart, it can illuminate our day and inspire our prayer. It is a question of not letting it fall on deaf ears!
Dear brothers and sisters, keep reading the Bible! Do not forget the pocket Gospel: carry it in your bag, in your pocket, and at some moment during the day, read a passage. And this will make you very close to the Holy Spirit, who is in the Word of God. May the Holy Spirit, who inspired the Scriptures and now breathes from them, help us to grasp this love of God in the concrete situations of life.