
POPE FRANCIS
“Some think there are bosses in the Church: bishops, the pope, bishops, priests and later the workers, who are the rest. No! We are all the Church. Everyone! And we all have the responsibility of sanctifying each other.”
The Holy Father urged Christians to warned of the dangers of talking too much and hypocrisy after receiving the peace of Confirmation.
POPE FRANCIS
“And what happens after? We go out and start speaking badly of others. We speak badly of others, and the gossiping begins, and gossip is war. That’s not how this works. If we have received the symbol of peace with the strength of the Holy Spirit, we must be men and women of peace.”
The pope invited Christians to let themselves be guided by the Holy Spirit and face their lives with courage, and he quoted a phrase from his latest Apostolic Exhortation, “Let’s remember that what is closed ends up smelling of humidity and making us ill.”