The Weekly Francis – Volume 406

The Weekly Francis is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings, speeches, etc which I also cross-post at Jimmy Akin’s blog.

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 30 March 2022 to 5 April 2022.

Angelus

3 April 2022 – Apostolic Journey to Malta’ Angelus

General Audiences

30 March 2022 – General Audience – Catechesis on Old Age

Homilies

2 April 2022 – Apostolic Journey to Malta’ Prayer meeting at the National Shrine of ‘Ta’ Pinu’ in Gozo
3 April 2022 – Apostolic Journey to Malta’ Holy Mass (Floriana)

Prayers

3 April 2022 – Apostolic Journey to Malta’ Visit to the Grotto of St Paul at the Basilica of St Paul in Rabat

Speeches

Papal Tweets

“The elderly can teach the younger generations how to trust in God, how to be merciful, and how to pray fervently not only in good times, but especially in difficult ones. #BlessingOfTime @PontAcadLife @LaityFamilyLife” @Pontifex, 30 March 2022
“If prayer is real, it necessarily bears fruit in charity. And charity sets us free from the worst form of enslavement, which is slavery to self. Lenten charity brings us back to what is essential, to the deep joy to be found in giving. #Lent” @Pontifex, 31 March 2022
“Tomorrow I will go to #Malta on an #ApostolicJourney in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul. It will be an opportunity to know at first hand a Christian community with a millennia-old history. I ask every one of you to accompany me in prayer. Thank you!” @Pontifex, 1 April 2022
“I feel shame for the role that a number of Catholics with educational responsibilities have had in the abuse and lack of respect for the identity, culture and spiritual values of the Indigenous Peoples in Canada. All these things are contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” @Pontifex, 1 April 2022
“Listening to the voices of the brothers and sisters of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, I heard the suffering, hardship, discrimination and various forms of abuse experienced, particularly in the residential schools. I bear these stories with great sorrow in my heart.” @Pontifex, 1 April 2022
“Let’s not view the migrant as a threat. Others are not a virus to protect ourselves from, but people to be welcomed. Certainly, hospitality requires renunciations. Yet every sacrifice, every renunciation made for a greater good, for life of another who is God’s treasure, is holy!” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“We have been saved by the same blood, we are one family, so let us welcome each other, love each another, heal each other’s wounds. Let us be a “synod”, in other words, “journey together”. For God is present wherever love reigns! #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“Fraternal love and the welcome we show our neighbor is so important in the Church! The Lord reminds us of this on the cross in entrusting Mary and John to each other’s care. He urges the Christian community of every age not to lose sight of this priority. #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“Saint Paul unexpectedly came to #Malta’s coast and found ready assistance. He was a man in need of assistance. In the name of the Gospel that he lived and preached, let us open our hearts and rediscover the beauty of serving our neighbours in need! #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“Let’s hear people’s thirst for #peace and go back to international peace conferences gatherings where the central theme is disarmament! May the enormous funds that continue to be destined to weapons be diverted to development, health care and nutrition. #ApostolicJourney #Malta” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“The growing migration emergency – here we can think of the refugees from war-torn Ukraine – calls for a broad-based and shared response. Some countries cannot respond to the entire problem, while others remain indifferent onlookers! #ApostolicJourney #Malta” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“The Mediterranean needs co-responsibility on the part of Europe, in order to become a new theatre of solidarity and not the harbinger of a tragic shipwreck of civilization. #ApostolicJourney #Malta” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“This is the #Gospel we are called to live: to welcome others, to be experts in humanity and to light fires of tender love when the coldness of life engulfs those who suffer. #AposolicJourney #Malta” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“The tender love of mothers, who give life to the world, and the presence of women are the true alternative to the baneful logic of power that leads to war. We need compassion and care, not ideologies fueled by words of hatred. #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“Once again, some potentate is provoking and fomenting conflicts, ordinary people sense the need to build a future that, will either be shared, or will not be at all. Now in the night of the war, let us not allow the dream of #peace to fade! #ApostolicJourney #Malta” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“Today is the World #Autism Awareness Day. Let us walk together with people with autism, not only for them, but above all with them!” @Pontifex, 2 April 2022
“Let us respond to the challenge of migrants and refugees with humanity, lighting fires of fraternity around which people can warm themselves, get up again and rediscover hope. Let us strengthen the fabric of social friendship and the culture of encounter!” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“We listen to the stifled plea of millions of migrants whose fundamental rights are violated, sadly at times with the complicity of the competent authorities. They are not statistics, but flesh and blood people with faces and dreams, dreams that are sometimes dashed.” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“Thousands of people have been forced to flee Ukraine because of war. Many others have also had to leave their own lands in Asia, Africa and the Americas. All of them are in my thoughts and prayers. #Apostolic Journey #Malta” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“Pour out upon us your Holy Spirit and grant us a new heart capable of hearing the pleas of our brothers and sisters who have lost the warmth of their homes and homeland. Grant that we may give them hope through our humanitarian deeds. Amen. #PrayTogether” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“I thank all those who worked hard to prepare this #ApostolicJourney and the citizens of #Malta for your welcome. I will remember the luminous face of Malta! You are a treasure in the Church and for the Church. Do not forget: the joy of the Church is to evangelize.” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“To save ourselves from this shipwreck which brings the risk of sinking the ship of civilization, we must conduct ourselves with humanity, regarding people not merely as numbers, but for what they really are: brothers and sisters. #migrants #Apostolic Journey #Malta” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“Let us #PrayTogether for #peace, thinking of the humanitarian tragedy in war-torn #Ukraine, which continues to be bombarded. Let us not tire of praying and offering assistance to those who suffer! #ApostolicJourney #Malta” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“Those who believe they are upholding the faith by pointing their finger at others may have a certain “religiosity”, but they have not embraced the spirit of the Gospel, for they disregard mercy, which is the heart of God. #GospelOfTheDay (Jn 8:1–11)” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“The Lord wants that we, his disciples, forgiven by Him, become tireless witnesses of reconciliation, of a God who always forgives and gives us the chance to live a new and different life under the banner of mercy. #ApostolicJourney #Malta” @Pontifex, 3 April 2022
“The logic of war has imposed itself yet again because we are no longer used to thinking with the logic of peace. We are stubborn, we are in love with war, with the spirit of Cain. #Peace #Ukraine” @Pontifex, 4 April 2022
“Знову нав’язалася логіка війни, бо ми вже більше не звикли мислити згідно з логікою миру. Ми вперті, ми закохані у війни, в дух Каїна. #Мир #Україна” @Pontifex, 4 April 2022
“Логика войны была снова навязана, потому что мы отвыкли мыслить согласно логике мира. Мы упрямы, мы влюблены в войны, в дух Каина. #Мир #Украина” @Pontifex, 4 April 2022
“We need to cry over their tombs. Don’t our youth matter? I am grieved by what is happening today. We never learn. May the Lord have mercy on us, on all of us. Every one of us are guilty! #Peace #Ukraine” @Pontifex, 4 April 2022
“На могилах потрібно плакати. Молодь не береться до уваги? Я засмучений тим, що сьогодні відбувається. Ми не вчимося. Нехай же Господь буде милостивий з нами, з нами всіма. Всі ми винні! #Мир #Україна” @Pontifex, 4 April 2022
“Нужно плакать над могилами. Неужели нам безразлична молодежь? Мне горько оттого, что происходит сегодня. Мы ничему не учимся. Да смилуется над всеми нами Господь. Вина – на каждом из нас. #Мир #Украина” @Pontifex, 4 April 2022
“In this season of conversion, sustained by God’s grace and by the communion of the Church, let us not grow tired of doing good. The soil is prepared by fasting, watered by prayer and enriched by charity. #Lent” @Pontifex, 5 April 2022
“Let us #PrayTogether for health care workers who serve the sick and the elderly, especially in the poorest countries. May they be adequately supported by governments and local communities. #PrayerIntention Video” @Pontifex, 5 April 2022