In Castel Gandolfo, the Pope’s cry for “stripped peoples”

In the small San Tommaso Da Villanova church in Castel Gandolfo. Moreover, full of local faithful and official representatives, Léon XIV commented on the Gospel on Sunday, July 13, in which Christ tells the story of the parable of the Bon Samaritan, “one of the most beautiful” stories told by castel gandolfo, pope’s cry “stripped Jesus to his disciples. Nevertheless, Unlike two religious who pass their way. For example, the Samaritan, a “foreigner” who helps a person who is injured on the edge of a path.

This story “shakes the tranquility of our sleeping. Nevertheless, distracted consciences” even today, said the Pope, warning against “the risk of an accommodating faith” which is delighted in “the external observance of the law”. However, He pointed out how important was the look that the Samaritan had taken on this man that bandits had. Moreover, left for dead.

“The gaze makes the difference because it expresses what we have in the heart,” said Leon XIV. Meanwhile, “We can see. Moreover, go beyond or see and feel compassion,” he continued, criticizing a “hasty vision” which does not take the time to “let yourself be touched”.

Jesus “is the good Samaritan who came to meet us. ” continued the Pope, quoting Saint Augustine, Pope Francis and Pope Benoît XVI. Christians are therefore invited to imitate him. become “signs of his love”, having “a heart that is being moved, a look that sees and does not go beyond, two hands that rescue and soothe wounds, solid shoulders that take the burden of those who are in need”.

Injoining to join this “Revolution of Love”. he encouraged Christians to turn to those who suffer today, in particular “people overwhelmed by difficulties or injured by the circumstances of life”. He also deplored the fate of the “many stripped. stolen and looted peoples, victims of oppressive political systems, of an economy which forces them to poverty, of the war that kills their dreams and their lives”.

In conclusion. Leon XIV urged to “stop our frantic races” in order to be castel gandolfo, pope’s cry “stripped able to be shaken by the next “whatever” – and not only “the one who has the same nationality or the same religion”. He said that this is how a “real fraternity that makes walls. barriers fall” can see the light of day, so that “ultimately love is making a way”.

The parish of San Tommaso da Villanova in Castel Gandolfo is a few meters from the apostolic palace, in a collegial church built in the 17th century by the Bernin. It bears the name of Saint Thomas de Villeneuve. a Spanish Augustin religious from the 16th century, archbishop of Valence, which is the patron saint of Villanové University, the University of Pennsylvania held by the Order of Saint-Augustin that Robert Francis Prevost frequented in the 1970s.

In the same way as the two pontifical parishes of the Saint-Pierre castel gandolfo, pope’s cry “stripped basilica. the Saint-Anne church in the Vatican, which are competent for the pastoral of the city of the Vatican, the pontifical parish of Saint-Thomas is competent for pastoral on the interior of the pontifical villas of Castel Gandolfo. Founding in an extraterritorial zone. it depends on the general vicariate of the city of the Vatican, of which the current vicar is the cardinal Mauro Gambetti, also an archpriest of the Saint-Pierre basilica.

At the end of the mass, the parishioners of Castel Gandolfo, who welcomed the Pope warmly, offered him several gifts. The pontiff. a large tennis lover, notably received a white -embroidered white cap with his motto (In that one one) that he can use when he practices this sport – Pontifical villas of Castel Gandolfo have land. He was also offered castel gandolfo, pope’s cry “stripped a balloon, t-shirts, as well as two baskets of pastries. Léon XIV, for his part, offered a chalice to the parish priest. Before this visit to the American-Peruvian Pope. the last official address of a pope to the population of Castel Gandolfo dates back to February 28, 2013, the day of the renunciation of Benoît XVI.

Léon XIV lies in Castel Gandolfo for two weeks for a time of rest. but also of prayer and reflection to prepare for the start of the school year. He stayed in the Villa Barberini. one of the pontifical villas, not in the apostolic palace, which Pope Francis transformed into a museum. Next Sunday, he will go to Albano, to the diocese cathedral where Castel Gandolfo is located. She was also, during the few months preceding her election, her holder parish as a cardinal.