(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has told those in Religious Life to “wake up the world”, according to an article appearing in La Civiltà Cattolica, the Rome-based Jesuit weekly.
Editor Antonio Spadaro, SJ, has written an article recounting the private meeting last November between Pope Francis and the Union of Superiors General of religious men at the end of their 82nd General Assembly.
“Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world,” Pope Francis said.
“We are speaking of an eschatological outlook, of the values of the Kingdom incarnated here, on this earth. It is a question of leaving everything to follow the Lord. No, I do not want to say “radical.” Evangelical radicalness is not only for religious: it is demanded of all. But religious follow the Lord in a special was, in a prophetic way. It is this witness that I expect of you. Religious should be men and women who are able to wake the world up.”
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Comments
Amazing Papa!
This guy is awesome it has always been the purpose of true religion to wake the world up to reconnect with the Divine but it has often failed and been distorted to serve more worldly aims and masters. Still the true message has always been there and the call has always gone out from age to age and a few have responded. I think New Age tends to attack and misrepresent trad religion unfairly often as many good spiritual people have come from its ranks and still come though there is as with any human institutions much abuse and corrption too,
Thanks for posting this amazing speech,
Al