Pope Prays For Turkey Victims, Pope Francis bidding his condolences Sunday for those afflicted by attacks in Ankara during a beef over the weekend which has larboard at atomic 95 humans dead.Addressing the crowds in St. Peter's Square afterward the Angelus Oct. 11, the Pope said he accustomed the account of Saturday's attacks “with abundant pain."
“Pain for the abounding killed. Affliction for the wounded. Affliction because the perpetrators attacked caught bodies who were agitation for peace.”
“While I adjure for that admired country, I ask the Lord to acceptable the souls of the departed, and to abundance the adversity and (their) families.”
The Oct. 10 advance believed to accept been perpetrated by two suicide bombers addled a accumulation of pro-Kurdish demonstrators and activity activists who were captivation a assemblage abreast the basic city's capital alternation station, three weeks advanced of an election, according to Reuters.
Before reciting the Angelus with the affectionate in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis reflected on the Gospel account of the day. During his reflection, he issued a claiming to all the adolescent humans in the Square as to whether they would blithely chase Christ, or acutely airing away, like the affluent man depicted in Sunday's readings.
“Have you acquainted the boring of Jesus on you?” the Pope asked. “How do you wish to respond? Would you adopt to leave this Square with the joy that Jesus gives us, or with the anguish of affection which the apple offers?”
The Pope centered his pre-Angelus abode on the day's Gospel account from Mark, which recounts the affluent man, who is declared as “young”, allurement Jesus what he accept to do to accede abiding life.
“Eternal life,” the Pope explains, does not accredit alone to the afterlife, but to a activity that is full, “accomplished, after limits.”
The affluent man in the Gospel says he has followed the commandments “which accredit to adulation of one another” back his youth, but recognizes that his “desire for fulness” has not been satisfied, the Roman Pontiff said.
Christ responds by arduous the man to advertise everything, accord to the poor, and chase him. However, because his affection is “divided by two masters: God and money,” the Pope said, he is clumsy to acknowledge to this call, and acutely leaves.
As the Gospel recounts, Christ says it is easier for a biscuit to canyon through the eye of a aggravate than for a affluent man to access the commonwealth of God. He adds accordingly that conservancy is absurd for man, but not for God.
“If we allocate ourselves to the Lord, we can affected every obstacle that prevents us from afterward him on the adventure of faith,” the Pope said. “Entrust yourself to the Lord. He gives us strength. He gives us salvation. He accompanies us on the journey.”
Christ again promises that those who leave abaft aggregate and chase him will accept abiding life, and will accept a “hundredfold.”
In accepting this “hundredfold,” the Pope said: “we are beggared of appurtenances and accept in barter the contentment of accurate good; we are freed from the bullwork of things and accretion the abandon of account for love; one renounces control and receives the joy of the gift.”
“The adolescent man was not won over by the boring of Jesus' love, and accordingly was not able to change,” Pope Francis said. “It is alone in affable the Lord's adulation with apprehensive acknowledgment that we are freed from the seductions of idols and the amaurosis of our illusions.”
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