Pope Francis spoke about peace in his homily at Casa Santa Marta. He said recently fires of war have been ignited. Thus, in order to quench them, there must be prayers for peace.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS <\/strong> Each person should make the desire for peace personal. Pope Francis assured that God will provide world peace if He is asked so by everyone in prayer. <\/p>\n SUMMARY OF PAPAL HOMILY <\/strong><\/p>\n (Source: Vatican News)<\/p>\n The way to remain in the Lord, as St. John says, is by loving one another, This is the secret to peace. <\/p>\n True love, according to Pope Francis, is not that of soap operas and television shows but is something that urges us to speak \u201cwell\u201d of others. If one cannot speak well of others, it is better to shut one\u2019s mouth, because speaking ill of others and \u201cskinning\u201d them is war. <\/p>\n Love is revealed in \u201clittle things\u201d. \u201cIf there is war in my heart\u201d, he argues, \u201cthere will be war in my family, in my neighbourhood and my workplace\u201d. Jealousy, envy, slander, lead us to war with one another. They \u201cdestroy\u201d, they are like \u201cfilth\u201d. <\/p>\n The Holy Father urged Christians to ask themselves the number of times they speak \u201cwith a spirit of peace\u201d and how many times \u201cwith a spirit of war\u201d.<\/p>\n Pope Francis noted that usually the way we act in the family, in the neighbourhood and the workplace is an attitude of war. It destroys and dirties the other, which, he said, is not the love and the secure peace we asked for. In this, there is no Holy Spirit. Whether a layperson, a priest, a religious, a bishop, a Pope or anyone, the Holy Father said, it happens to each one of us \u2013 our immediate reaction is to condemn the other person. \u201cTo make war,\u201d he said, \u201cis the temptation of the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n When the devil manages to make us go to war and light the fire of war, the Pope continued, he is happy he does not have to work anymore. \u201cWe are the ones who work to destroy each other\u201d, \u201cwe are the ones who carry on the war, the destruction\u201d, destroying \u201cfirst\u201d ourselves, \u201cbecause we throw love out\u201d and then the others. The Pope noted how much we are addicted to this habit of dirtying others. It is a seed that the devil sows inside us. In conclusion, the Pope prayed for a secure peace, which is \u201cthe gift of the Holy Spirit\u201d, by trying to remain in the Lord. <\/p>\n Melissa Butz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 9, 2020. He said the fires of war have been recently ignited in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pzIbxRlUnd8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0901eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0901int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47167"}],"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=47167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n When we talk about peace, we immediately think of wars; for there to be no wars in the world, for a secure peace. It is the image that always comes to us, peace and not wars, but always outside: in that country, in that situation...<\/em><\/p>\n