Reflecting on the readings of the day, the pope listed three attitudes help to preserve unity and peace: humility, kindness and generosity.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Pope Francis gave another piece of advice for unity: make peace soon and remember that Jesus always forgives.<\/p>\n EXTRACTS OF THE HOMILY OF THE POPE<\/strong><\/p>\n (Source: Vatican News)<\/p>\n Today we are 'used to breathing the air of conflict'. Every day, on the TV and in newspapers, we hear about conflicts and wars 'one after the other', 'without peace, without unity\u201d.\u00a0 Agreements made to stop conflicts, he said, are ignored, thus the arms race and preparation for war and destruction go ahead.<\/p>\n Even world institutions created with the best of intentions for peace and unity, fail to come to an agreement because of a veto here and an interest there ...\u00a0 While they are struggling to arrive at peace agreements, children have no food, no school, no education and hospitals because the war has destroyed everything.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Holy Father noted there is a tendency to destruction, war and disunity in us. It is the tendency that the devil, the enemy and destroyer of humanity sows in our hearts.\u00a0 Referring to Paul the Pope said the Apostle teaches us that the journey of unity is, so to say, clad or \u201carmoured' with the bond of peace.\u00a0 Peace, he said, leads to unity. When a rift is created between members of the family, the devil is happy with the start of\u00a0war.\u00a0 The advice is then to bear with one another because we always have an excuse to be annoyed and impatient because we are all sinners with defects.\u00a0 St. Paul, inspired by Jesus at the Last Supper who urged for \u201cone body and one spirit\u201d, \u00a0thus urges us to \u201cpreserve the unity of\u00a0spirit\u00a0through the bond of peace'.<\/p>\n The next step, is to see the horizon of peace with God, just as Jesus made us see the horizon of peace with prayer: \u00a0\u201cFather, may they be one, as You and I are one'.\u00a0 The Pope recalled the day\u2019s Gospel of Luke where Jesus advises us to strike an agreement with our adversary along the way.\u00a0 The Pope said it\u2019s good advice, because 'it is not difficult to come to an agreement at the beginning of a conflict'. The world, our families and our society need peace.\u00a0 He invited Christians to start putting into practice humility, gentleness and patience saying this is the path to making peace and consolidating unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 26, 2018. He reflected on the message St. Paul transmitted in the readings of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A941FZyjNMc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2610eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2610int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48785"}],"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=48785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n 'Can peace be achieved in the world with these three small things?<\/em> Yes. On that path. Can one reach unity? Yes. St. Paul is practical, and he continues with very practical advice: endure each other in love.'<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Pope urged Christians to open their hearts and make peace in the world taking the path of the \u201cthree little things\u201d \u00a0- 'humility, gentleness and patience'.\u00a0 He drew attention to the practical advice of Paul to \u201cbear with one another in love'.\u00a0 The Holy Father acknowledged it\u2019s easy not as there is always a judgement, a condemnation which leads to separation and distances\u2026<\/p>\n
\nThe advice of Jesus is to settle the matter and make peace at the beginning, which calls for humility, gentleness and patience.\u00a0 One can build peace throughout the world with these little things, which are the attitudes of Jesus who is humble, meek and forgives everything.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n