“Winning the chatter is not easy and someone asks me ‘But how can it be done?’ There is a very good medicine: bite your tongue. It will do you good. “Pope Francis, receiving a representation of the Orionine Family on the 150th anniversary of the birth of St. Luigi Orione and the participants in the General Chapter of the Sons of Divine Providence, reiterates his no to” chatter “, a worm that corrupts and kills a religious community and proposes “a ‘medicine'” to overcome it.
Pope: “Chatter is a worm that kills community life”
“It is important – added the pope off the cuff – to take care of the quality of community life, relationships, common prayer: this is already apostolate, because it is witness. If there is coldness among us, or, worse, judgments and gossip, what apostolate do we want to do? Please, no chatter. Chattering is a worm that corrupts, that kills the life of a community, of a religious order. No chatter. I know it’s not easy ”.
Pope in St. Peter’s Square with 5 girls on the “popemobile”
In the afternoon, Pope Francis, aboard the ‘popemobile’ discovered, entered St. Peter’s Square, to take part in the mass for families on the occasion of the 10th World Meeting taking place in Rome on the theme “Family love: vocation and way of holiness “. The Pontiff toured the square among the thousands of faithful present – an expression of the families who came from all over the world for the meeting – taking five little girls in white dresses with him in the car.
Pope does not celebrate mass
However, the pontiff did not celebrate Mass, which was instead presided over by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church. As has already happened on various other occasions, due to his persistent pain in his right knee, the Holy Father prefers to be replaced in the celebration even though he has delivered the homily.