During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, the pope reflected on the Gospel passage in which Jesus corrects the crowd, who wants to make Him king after He multiplies the loaves and fishes.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope invited the faithful to always keep in mind the moment when Jesus first said to them, \u201cFollow me.\u201d<\/p>\n SUMMARY OF POPE'S HOMILY<\/p>\n (Source: Vatican News)<\/p>\n He reflected on the Gospel reading of the day in which Jesus redirects the crowd for seeking Him after the multiplication of the loaves and fishes only because their stomachs had been filled by exhorting them \u201cnot to work for food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n \nBeing good people, the pope said, they asked him how to accomplish this and Jesus replied: \u201cThis is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.\u201d Pope Francis explained that the crowd listened to Jesus \u201cwithout getting tired.' Once sated, they thought they would make Him king, \u201cbut they had forgotten their first enthusiasm for His Word.\u201d \nThis happens to us too, the pope warned, when we move away from the path of the Gospel and we lose the memory of our first enthusiasm for the Word of the Lord. But Jesus, he said, asks us to go back to that first encounter: \u201cThis is a grace when faced with temptations.\u201d The pope highlighted the grace of \u201calways returning to that first call, when Jesus looked at us with love.\u201d \u201cEach of us has the experience of that first encounter in which Jesus said: follow me,\u201d he said. Along the way, he continued, we move away, \u201cwe forget,\u201d and we lose the freshness of that first call.<\/p>\n \nPope Francis invited the faithful to pray that the Lord might give us the grace to return to the moment in which we had our first experience of encounter with Jesus. He recalled how Jesus told the women who went to the tomb early on Easter morning to go and tell his disciples \u201cto go to Galilee and there, they will find me.\u201d Galilee, he said, was the place of their first meeting with Jesus. \u201cEach one of us has our own Galilee within us\u201d, the pope concluded, \u201cthat specific moment in which Jesus drew close\u2026looked on me with love, and said to me: \u2018follow me.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 27, 2020. Pope Francis invites the faithful to remember the moment when Jesus said, \u201cFollow me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HBXJH_L-4as","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamartaomelia2704eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamartaomelia2704int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46702"}],"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=46702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n The Lord always makes us return to the first encounter, to that first moment in which He looked at us, spoke to us and sparked in us the desire to follow Him. This is a grace to ask of the Lord, because in life, we will always be tempted to distance ourselves.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSo, he continued, the Lord reminded the crowd of their first encounter with the Word, and \u201cHe corrected the path of the people who had taken a more worldly, rather than evangelical path.\u201d<\/p>\n