In his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis asserted the importance of silence in revealing the truth, using the example of Jesus' demeanor when facing opposition. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS <\/strong> Thus, the Holy Father urged Christians to show this same composure, empowered by their faith in the Lord. <\/p>\n EXCERPTS FROM THE POPE'S HOMILY IN ENGLISH<\/strong> \u201cThey were not thinking, they were shouting. Jesus stayed silent\u2026 The Gospel passage ends with: \u2018But he passed through the midst of them and went away.\u2019<\/p>\n The people who were saying \u2018crucify him\u2019 had praised Jesus on Palm Sunday saying, \u2018Blessed are You, Son of David\u2019. They had changed.<\/p>\n With people lacking good will, with people who only seek scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction, even within the family: silence, prayer. <\/p>\n May the Lord give us the grace to discern when we should speak and when we should stay silent. This applies to every part of life: to work, at home, in society\u2026. Thus we will be closer imitators of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 3, 2018. The pope urged Christians to be humble when facing opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/haTEtxImNiQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0309eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0309int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48994"}],"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=48994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cExpress how you feel and then be quiet. Because the truth is humble, the truth is silent, the truth isn't noisy. It's not easy, what Jesus did; but the dignity of the Christian is anchored in the power of God. With people lacking good will, with people who only seek scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction, even within the family: silence, prayer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n(Source: Vatican Media)<\/p>\n