Many pilgrims looked shocked as they watched a sick patient being brought on a stretcher, so that the Pope could bless and greet people who accompanied him.<\/p>\n
It was moments before Pope Francis began a new general audience in which he explained the origin of the Jubilee in the Old Testament. It was celebrated every 50 years and was a time of \u00a0'general amnesty when debts were canceled and the land restituted to their owners.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS
\n'The goal was a society based on equality and solidarity, where freedom, land and money to become a good for everyone, not just for some, as is the case now.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n
Pope Francis said that today's wealth is controlled by a few and said that a concrete way to live the Jubilee is by living fraternity and giving to those in need.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS
\n'Jubilee is to transform, so that our hearts get bigger, more generous, more filled with the love of God. But I tell you one thing. If this desire, if the Jubilee does not reach your bank account then it is not a true Jubilee. Is this understood?\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n
Pope Francis recalled that the Jubilee originally reminded people that everything belongs to God. \u00a0We are all brothers and we should not subject our neighbor to misery.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS
\n'And often, in desperation, many men end in suicide because they fail and don't have hope. They don't find a helping hand but a hand that asks them to pay interest. FLASH. The biblical message is clear: open up courageously and share. This is mercy. And if we want God to be merciful to us it must come from us first.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n
Pope Francis concluded by calling for prayers for his meeting with the Patriarch of Moscow on Friday, in Cuba, and for his next trip to Mexico.<\/p>\n
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