In his daily homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis reflected on a recent photograph he saw of people leaving a restaurant and ignoring a homeless person. He said this indifference to other peoples needs must be overcome by following Jesus example. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS The pope offered the Mass for Arch. Giorgio Zur who had died on Monday. He lived in Casa Santa Marta and was Apostolic Nuncio to Austria. <\/p>\n EXTRACTS FROM POPE'S HOMILY \u201cThis first step God takes is His Son. He sent Him to save us and to give meaning to our lives and to renew and recreate us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cGod\u2019s heart, Jesus\u2019 heart, was moved when he saw these people, and he could not remain indifferent. Love is restless. Love does not tolerate indifference; love is compassionate. But love means putting your heart on the line for others; it means [showing] mercy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe disciples were not interested in the people. Jesus was interested, because he cared for them. They weren\u2019t evil, just indifferent. They didn\u2019t know what it meant to love. They didn\u2019t know how to show compassion. They didn\u2019t know what indifference was. They had to sin, betray the Master, and abandon him in order to understand the core of compassion and mercy. And Jesus\u2019 response cuts deep: \u2018Give them some food yourselves.\u2019 Take their plight upon yourselves. This is the struggle between the compassion of Jesus and indifference, which is always repeated throughout history. Many people who are good, but don\u2019t understand the needs of others, are incapable of compassion. They are good people, maybe because the love of God has not entered into their heart or they have not let it enter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe more-common opposite of the love of God \u2013 of God\u2019s compassion \u2013 is indifference. \u2018I\u2019m satisfied; I lack nothing. I have everything. I\u2019ve assured my place in this life and the next, since I go to Mass every Sunday. I\u2019m a good Christian. But leaving the restaurant, I look the other way.\u2019 Let\u2019s reflect on this: Confronted with God who takes the first step, is compassionate, and is merciful, many times our attitude is indifference. Let us pray to the Lord that He heal humanity, starting with us. May my heart be healed from the sickness of the culture of indifference.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 8 of 2019. He offered the Mass for Arch. Giorgio Zur who had lived in Casa Santa Marta with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BIPAv4pk8Uo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0801eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0801int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48515"}],"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=48515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>\u201c'I have everything. I\u2019ve assured my place in this life and the next, since I go to Mass every Sunday. I\u2019m a good Christian. However, leaving the restaurant, I look the other way.\u2019 Let\u2019s reflect on God, who takes the first step, is compassionate and is merciful, many times our attitude is indifference.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>(Source: Vatican News)<\/p>\n