To celebrate the Day of Consecrated Life, the Pope prayed Vespers with thousands of religious at the Vatican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He reflected on the three vows: poverty, obedience, and chastity. Commenting on
celibacy, he said it is a choice that requires maturity. In fact, he regretted that, in many countries, an ultra-individualistic mindset has spread which ends up using and throwing away people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE FRANCIS In order to prevent this type of attitude from entering into consecrated persons, the Pope recommended that great attention be paid to others, both young and old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE FRANCIS The Pope concluded by suggesting an examination of one's own life by devoting much time to prayer before the tabernacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe temptation to lead a double life is daily\": the Pope called for care in the formation of those who are celibate - old or young - so \u201cthat chastity truly reveals the beauty of the love that is given\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":74684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,184,27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/quxNhSBIhp4","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bvesprireligiosieng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bvesprireligiosiint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74705"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74707,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74705\/revisions\/74707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>In relationships this gives rise to superficial and unstable attitudes, selfishness and hedonism, immaturity and moral irresponsibility. The chosen spouse of a lifetime is replaced by the \u201cpartner\u201d of the moment, while children freely accepted as a gift are replaced by those demanded as a \u201cright\u201d or eliminated as \u201cunwanted\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>To this end, however, it is important that our communities provide for the spiritual and affective growth of their members, already during initial formation as well as in ongoing formation. In this way, chastity can truly reveal the beauty of a self-giving love, and avoid such harmful phenomena as the souring of the heart or questionable choices that are a symptom of unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and lead at times, in more fragile individuals, to living \u201cdouble lives\u201d. Daily there is a battle against the temptation of a double life. It is every day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n