In his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis reminded that God is fruitful and He also wants His children to be. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS The pope assured this tendency will pass and reminded that Christians are called to give life to others, whether physical or spiritual. <\/p>\n EXTRACTS FROM POPE FRANCIS' HOMILY<\/strong><\/p>\n (Source: Vatican Radio)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFill the earth, be fruitful!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhere there is God there is fruitfulness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cA few countries come to mind \u2013 this is a bit off topic \u2013 that have chosen the path of sterility and suffer from that serious disease that is a demographic winter. We know them. They do not have children. 'No, it's for wellbeing, it's this, it's that...' They are countries without children, this is not a blessing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFruitfulness, he said, is always a blessing of God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat is more sterile than a desert? And yet they say that even the desert will flourish, the dryness will be filled with water. This is God\u2019s promise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe devil does not want us to give life, be it physical or spiritual, to others.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe who lives for himself produces selfishness, pride, vanity, greasing the soul without living for others. The devil is the one who grows the weeds of egoism and stops us from being fruitful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHere is an empty cradle, we can look at it. It can be seen as a symbol of hope because the Child will come, or it can be seen as an object from a museum, empty of life. Our heart is like the cradle: is it empty? Or is it open to continuously receive and give life?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He bemoaned giving well-being priority over having children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":49915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/l_bnGAxxYJA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantamarta1912eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantamarta1912int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914"}],"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=49914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>\u201cA few countries come to mind \u2013 this is a bit off topic \u2013 that have chosen the path of sterility and suffer from that serious disease that is a demographic winter. We know them. They do not have children. 'No, it's for wellbeing, it's this, it's that...' They are countries without children, this is not a blessing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n