Sentire cum Ecclesia

March 13, 2020
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The Pope’s prayer intentions

MARCH: We pray that the Church in China may persevere in its faithfulness to the Gospel and grow in unity.

APRIL: We pray that those suffering from addiction may be helped and accompanied.

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Faith grows when we invoke the Lord with confidence, bringing to Jesus who we are, with open hearts, without hiding our sufferings.

Together against trafficking. Only together can we defeat this scourge and protect the victims. Prayer is the strength that sustains our commitment.

Both John the Baptist, who is the greatest man born of woman, and the Son of God have chosen the path of humiliation. God shows this path to Christians so they can move forward. One cannot be humble without having suffered humiliation.

There is a poverty that we must accept, that of our own being, and a poverty that we must seek instead - a concrete one - from the things of this world, in order to be free and to be able to love.

Brothers and sisters, in moments when we are far from God, it would do us good to hear this voice in our heart: "My son, my daughter, what are you doing? Please, don't kill yourself. I died for you."

Loneliness is not overcome by closing in on ourselves, but by crying out to the Lord, for the Lord hears the cry of those who find themselves alone.