Pope at Angelus: Saint Francis Shows Us How to Build Peace Through Fraternal Love
The commemorations included a midnight Eucharist, a dawn Mass and an overnight walk as church leaders urged peace, simplicity and reconciliation.
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How did a rich young Italian who plunged into poverty and founded a begging order, who died at the age of 45, manage to mark so deeply the Church and the world in which he lived?
His values and vision of faith helped transform the church, becoming a benchmark for austerity
Rome, 4 Oct (EFE).- Italy commemorates this Sunday the eighth centenary of the death of St Francis of Assisi, patron of the country, with a day of celebrations around the ‘poor saint’, whose figure Pope Leo XIV has claimed as an example of faith, fraternity and commitment to peace. The town of Assisi, in [...] The entry Italy and the Pope celebrate the legacy of St Francis of Assisi in the 800 years of his death was first published in HolaNews.
Eight hundred years after the death of the patron saint of Italy. Melons: "An Italian who forgave the identity of a people." Also Pope Leo all'Angelos: "We ask with perseverance for the gift of peace."
He was neither pacifist nor environmentalist in today's sense. Celebrating him only as a symbol of fraternity and of drive to the social redistribution of wealth risks emptying its radicality. He didn't ask the world to change: he began by himself. Everything you say you believe in, how much are you willing to live it? That's his question, still today, still there.
The philosopher Massimo Cacciari, guest of the podcast Do not shoot on the pianist, explains how contemporary culture has completely misunderstood the message of St. Francis, reduced today, 800 years after his death, to reassuring imagery: the first ecologist or pacifist friend of animals. The Poor Assisi has instead testified to poverty as abandoning his own egotry. And he praised the creatures in the light of their relationship with the Creato…
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