Words of the Bishop of Rome who begin his service to the brothers
Andrea Tornelli
“I was chosen without any advantage, with fear and tremor, I came to you as a brother who wants to make a servant of his faith and joy, and he walks with you on the path of love of God, who loves us all in one family.” Thus, how Pope Leo, the missionary bishop, the grandson of immigrants, 267 bishops of Rome.
Simple and deep words in the beginning of his ministry are a program that tells us about the other style.
Among us, because in our world it is characterized by wars, hatred, violence and divisions, the humble word of the successor of Pedro is declared the gospel of love, loneliness, mercy, and brotherhood, from the god who loves us as one family.
He also seeks to testify to love, dialogue and understanding, to defeat hatred and war that begins in the heart of man, whether that heart carries weapons against his brother or crucifies him with the arrogance of words that hurt me as stones.
And a style, because Lyon recalls that the Ministry of Peter is to be Slaves slaves from (Servant of Obaidullah). His service is that love and present life are by the brothers: “The Church of Rome heads it in charity, and its true authority is the Association of Christ.”
Therefore, it is not “capturing others through field, religious propaganda or means of strength”, as we are done in every right marketing Religious, strategies designed from the office. On the other hand, it is “always and just love as Jesus did.”
That is why Pedro “should feed the herd without giving up the temptation to be a single leader or a major leader above others, and they have people assigned to him.” On the contrary, he must love more. “This is required to serve the faith of the brothers and walk next to them.”
In these last words, a glimpse of the image of the good shepherd that Pope Francis proposed several times. It is the image of the priest who walks in front of the herd to guide him; In the middle of the herd to accompany him, without feeling superior or separated; Also behind the herd, so that no person is lost, and therefore he is able to pick up the last, and the most tired of the road.
The missionary bishop, who feels today in the Pedro chair, calls us, to announce the Gospel of Love, “without locating ourselves in our small group or feeling superior to the world.”
The Church is a city of sinners, which always needs mercy, which is why “vaccination” should be “vaccinated” against any superpoweer, such as the followers of a god who chose the path of weakness and was reduced even before death on the cross to save us.
“We are called to offer all the love of God,” said Pope Leon, in the mass of the world, in the mass of the world, and thus aspiring to the distance, to go to meet questions, concerns and challenges today.
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