“It will be he who raises us up, not us. The more we descend with humility, the more God raises us up,” he said.
Reflecting on Sunday’s Gospel from chapter 18 of the Gospel of Luke, Pope Francis said that everyone should look closely at the parable of the Pharisee and the publican and ask themselves whether they are judgemental and convinced of their own righteousness, like the Pharisee.
Pope Francis said: “To rise towards Him we must descend within ourselves: to cultivate the sincerity and humility of the heart that give us an honest outlook on our frailties and interior poverty.”
“Let us ask the intercession of Mary Most Holy, the humble servant of the Lord, the living image of what the Lord loves to accomplish, overthrowing the powerful from their thrones and raising the humble,” he said.
After praying the Angelus with the crowd, Pope Francis invited Catholics to sustain missionaries with prayer and concrete solidarity on World Mission Sunday, which he said is “an important occasion to awaken in all the baptized the desire to participate in the universal mission of the Church, through witness and proclamation of the Gospel.”
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