“The Holy Spirit drives us to get out of ourselves to go to God and the brothers, and Never to lock ourselves“, The Pope writes in this message he had prepared for Lent, the period that precedes Holy Week.
This 2025 the Lent occurs from March 5 to April 17. The Pope reflects on the meaning of “walking together in hope and discovering the calls to the conversion that God’s mercy directs us all, personally and communityly.”
And add: “It means walking side by side, without trampling or dominating the other, without hosting envy or hypocrisywithout letting anyone stay behind or feel excluded. We go in the same direction, towards the same goal, listening to each other with love and patience. ”
In this; temptation to lock ourselves in our self -referentiality, taking only our needs. ”
In addition, the Pontiff invited the members of the Catholic Church to wonder if they have an attitude of reception with concrete gestures towards the people who approach us. “If we make people feel part of the community or if we marginalize it“It includes the message.
Pope Francis also refers to migrants and pilgrimage in allusion to the story in the book of Exodus. “It would be a good Lenten exercise confront the concrete reality of an immigrant or pilgrim,” says the Pope, published by the Vatican News agency.
He also invited the faithful in this time of Lent to question themselves: “Do I have the conviction that God forgives my sins, or I behave as if I could save me alone? ”