Pope Francis
opened the Synod with a warning light for the "bad shepherds" and
"load on the shoulders of the people unbearable burdens that they will not
move them with their finger." It is a sermon that lasts just a few minutes
what the pope ruling in St. Peter's Basilica for the Mass with which entrusts
its mandate to the 191 Synod Fathers, experts and delegates from other churches
and the audience - including also called
an Italian couple to bring their own experience - that begin from Monday to
come together to discuss issues of contemporary families. Bergoglio invites
them to "work generously with true freedom and creativity humble."
But above all, recalls the Sunday Gospel, that the unfaithful tenants. It
warns: "For us there can be the temptation to seize the vineyard" as
those farmers who "for their greed and arrogance they want to make of it
what they want, and so take away the ability of God to realize his dream on the
people that you have chosen. " A people, will add the Pope at the Angelus,
that as a vine "requires a lot of care, love requires a patient and
faithful." Al Synod comes in the midst of a debate that saw bishops and
cardinals opposing themes that characterize the work: from cohabitation to
divorced, from birth control to homosexual unions. On Saturday evening, the
vigil in front of eighty thousand
faithful in St. Peter's Square, the Pope called for "a sincere,
open and fraternal", recalling what already happened at the council and
recommending "the serene confidence that in his time the Lord will not
fail to attributable to unit. " Now Bergoglio homily at the opening Mass
recalls: "The Lord asks us to take care of the family, who from the
beginning is an integral part of his plan of love for humanity." And he
says, "we can frustrate God's dream if we do not let ourselves be guided by
the Holy Spirit" because "God's dream always conflicts with the
hypocrisy of some of his servants." The synodal assemblies, said Francis,
"you do not need to discuss ideas beautiful and original, or to see who is
smarter" but "to cultivate and care for the best vineyard of the
Lord, to cooperate in his dream, his plan of love on his people. "
By Monday
morning, with the first congregations plenary, delegates will be asked to put
it into practice in order to respond to the expectations that Saturday evening
in St. Peter's Square, people wanted to witness with their own candles burning
in the Roman evening. The Pope asked to pray for the Synod to them and their
families from all over the world, which at the same time the vigil had been
invited to exhibit a light at the window. And on Sunday morning, before
starting a new pontiff's appeal has been launched with a tweet: "As we
begin the Synod on the Family, we pray to the Lord to show us the way.
#prayforsynod."
At noon,
during the Angelus, and to the faithful in the square were distributed Bibles
for the centenary of the foundation of the religious Paolini, Bergoglio He
added: "Because the family could walk well, with confidence and hope, it
needs to be nourished by Word of God. " And recommended to bring a Bible
in every household by simulating a conversation with the faithful: "But
father we do have two, three. And where do you hide? Should not be put on a
shelf but to read it often, every day, both individually and together, husband
and wife, parents and children, maybe in the evening, especially on Sundays.
" He concluded by joking: "Do not mess, pick only one."
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