For his General Audience, Pope Francis greeted pilgrims in St. Peter's Square in the popemobile to the sounds of a band. <\/p>\n
The Pope remembered the people in Ukraine who continue to suffer as a result of the war, especially those affected by the recent bombings in Kyiv. <\/p>\n
These days, my heart always goes out to the Ukrainian people, especially to the inhabitants of the places where the bombings raged on. I carry within me their pain. <\/em> <\/p>\n Pope Francis continued his weekly catechesis on discernment, calling pilgrims to use desire as a guiding principle that can help in overcoming challenges in life. <\/p>\n Using the Gospel passage of the paralytic in Bethseda, the Pope cautioned against not truly understanding one's desires because it can often lead to doing nothing. <\/p>\n This paralytic is the typical example of people who say, \u201cyes, yes, I want , I want,\u201d but I don't want, want, want. I don't do anything. This wanting to do something becomes like an illusion, but no step is taken to do it.<\/em><\/p>\n He warned that falling into this complacency and not taking the step forward to fulfill these desires can lead to simply complaining, which can be toxic. <\/p>\n Be careful as complaints are a poison, a poison to the soul, a poison to life because they do not make you grow the desire to move forward. Be careful with complaints.<\/em> <\/p>\n To combat this, the Pope reminded pilgrims that desire can be a tool in pushing them to take action and speaking with God can help people understand their desires. <\/p>\n \nKG <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reflecting on the Gospel passage of the paralytic in Bethseda, the Pope cautioned against not understanding one's desires because it can often lead to doing nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C4u2rdJb-o4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1210eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1210int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}