The Pope’s Mass at Santa Marta. Good manners and bad habits
The Pope’s Mass at Santa Marta.
Good manners and bad habits
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manners displayed by so many Christians. And among the bad habits is, precisely,
that of “flaying” each other alive with words, with disinformation or with
slander. “Gossip”, the Pope said, “is destructive in the Church”. Jesus often
spoke to Peter and to all the others, as the Pope recalled. He asked Peter
several times “if he loved him, if he loved him more than the others. Peter said
‘yes’, and the Lord gave him his role: ‘feed my sheep’”. This was “a real,
loving conversation”. However, at a certain point, the Holy Father explained,
Peter was tempted to interfere in the life of someone else, Judas, and on
learning that Judas was to betray Jesus, asked Jesus why he still permitted
Judas to follow him (cf. Jn 21:20-25).Peter, the Bishop of Rome explained, was a human being and so could not but likewise be tempted to interfere in the life of others, “as the vulgar expression says, to ‘stick his nose into other people’s affairs’”. This also happens in our life as Christians. “How often”, the Pope wondered, “are we tempted to do this?” Dialogue “with Jesus has been diverted to a different track”. This interference in others’ lives comes in many different forms. The Pope mentioned two: the constant comparison of oneself to others, and gossip, which is, literally, “flaying each other”. Three other common forms of negative behaviour, he said, are disinformation, mud-slinging, and calumny.
Concelebrating with the Pope among others was Bishop Enrico Dal Covolo, sdb. He came with personnel of the Pontifical Lateran University of which he is Rector.
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