The Weekly Francis – 10 April 2019

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 3 April 2019 to 10 April 2019.

General Audiences

• 3 April 2019

Letters

• 4 April 2019 – Letter sent by the Holy Father to the people of L’Aquila for the tenth anniversary of the earthquake in Abruzzo

Speeches

• 6 April 2019 – To Members of the “Missionszentrale der Franziskaner” Foundation (Germany)

Papal Tweets

• “#Lent invites us to look upward with prayer, which frees us from a horizontal, flat life, where we find time only for our ego, but forget God.” @Pontifex 7 April 2019
• “During this time of #Lent we are invited to look to others too with charity, which frees us from the vanity of possessing, from thinking that things are good if they are good for me.” @Pontifex 7 April 2019
• “Lenten fasting frees us from our attachment to things, from the worldliness that anaesthetizes the heart. #Lent” @Pontifex 8 April 2019
• “May the Lord always give us hope for the future and the strength to keep going. #SantaMarta” @Pontifex 9 April 2019
• “Almsgiving helps us emerge from the foolishness of living to accumulate everything for ourselves, under the illusion of securing a future that is not ours. #Lent” @Pontifex 10 April 2019

Papal Instagram

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