The Weekly Francis – 07 October 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 20 November 2017 to 17 October 2020.

Angelus

Apostolic Letter

Encyclical

General Audiences

Messages

Speeches

Papal Tweets

  • “The destruction of the human environment is extremely serious, not only because God has entrusted the world to us, but because human life is itself a gift which must be defended. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 24 September 2020
  • “Everyone’s talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God’s creation. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “The #pandemic has shown us that we cannot live without one another. The United Nations was established to bring nations together, to be a bridge between peoples. Let us make good use of it to build together the future we all desire. #UN75
    @UN” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “I renew my appeal that in light of the present circumstances, that all nations be enabled to meet the greatest needs of the moment, reducing or forgiving the debt of the poorest nations. #UN75
    @UN” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “We need to dismantle the perverse logic that links personal and national security to the possession of weaponry. This logic serves only to increase the profits of the arms industry, while fostering a climate of distrust and fear between persons and peoples. #UN75
    @UN” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “I urge civil authorities to be especially attentive to children who are denied their fundamental rights and dignity, particularly their right to life and to schooling. #UN75
    @UN Message” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “Let us ask the Lord for the gift of peace, for a world without arms of mass destruction! Let us dedicate ourselves to free humanity from nuclear arms, this serious threat to the human race.” @Pontifex 26 September 2020
  • “We see the face of Jesus in the faces of the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the sick, strangers and prisoners; Christ calls us to help. #WDMR2020 #DisplacedlikeJesus
    @M_RSection Message” @Pontifex 27 September 2020
  • “Let’s pray for the millions of internally displaced people. Just like Jesus and his parents who fled to Egypt, they live with fear, uncertainty and unease. #WDMR2020 #DisplacedlikeJesus
    @M_RSection” @Pontifex 27 September 2020
  • “Today we celebrate the Memorial of #StVincentDePaul, Patron of charitable organizations. May St Vincent’s example lead all of us to joyful and disinterested service to the most in need, and open us to hospitality and the gift of life.” @Pontifex 27 September 2020
  • “The #GospelOfTheDay questions the way of living a Christian life, which is not made up of dreams or beautiful aspirations, but of concrete commitments, to open ourselves ever more to God’s will and to love for our brothers and sisters.” @Pontifex 27 September 2020
  • “Almighty God, present in the entire universe and in the smallest of Your creatures, fill us with the strength of Your love so that we might take care of life and beauty. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 28 September 2020
  • “Saint Michael, help us in the battle for salvation we are fighting. Saint Gabriel, bring us the good news that Jesus has saved us, and grant us hope. Saint Raphael, take our hands and help us along on the path of complete healing. #ArchangelSaints” @Pontifex 29 September 2020
  • “Devotion to sacred Scripture, a “living and tender love” for the written word of God: this is the legacy that Saint Jerome bequeathed to the Church by his life and labours. Apostolic Letter” @Pontifex 30 September 2020
  • “Let us not go back to the ”normality“ sick with with injustice, inequality and environmental degradation.The normality to which we are called is that of the Kingdom of God, where there is bread for all and the social organisation is based on contributing, sharing and distributing” @Pontifex 30 September 2020
  • “#SaintThereseOfLisieux invites us to practise the little way of love, not to let the possibility of offering a smile to slip by, or any small gesture that sows peace and friendship. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 1 October 2020
  • “Let us continue to grow in the awareness that we all live in a common home as members of a single family! #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 2 October 2020
  • “The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes the task of uniting the entire human family in searching for sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 2 October 2020
  • “The effort to build a more just society implies the capacity of fraternity, a spirit of human communion. #SeasonOfCreation #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 3 October 2020
  • “I offer this social Encyclical as a modest contribution to continued reflection, in the hope that in the face of present-day attempts to eliminate or ignore others, we may prove capable of responding with a new vision of fraternity and social friendship. #FratelliTutti. Image” @Pontifex 3 October 2020
  • “#SaintFrancisofAssisi, faithful to Scripture, invites us to see nature as a magnificent book in which God speaks to us and grants us a glimpse of his infinite beauty and goodness. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “The parable of the murderous vinedressers (Mt 21:33–43) is an admonition for all times, including our own. The vineyard is the Lord’s, not ours. And God awaits the fruit of His vineyard from those He has sent to work in it. #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “Encyclical #FratelliTutti Encylical Image” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “#SaintFrancisofAssisi, this saint of fraternal love, simplicity and joy, who inspired me to write the Encyclical Laudato Si’, prompts me once more to devote this new Encyclical to fraternity and social friendship. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “To care for the world in which we live means to care for ourselves. Yet we need to think of ourselves more and more as a single family dwelling in a common home. #SeasonOfCreation #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “By his actions, the Good Samaritan showed that the existence of each and every individual is deeply tied to that of others: life is not simply time that passes; life is a time for interactions. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 5 October 2020
  • “We cannot be indifferent to suffering; we cannot allow anyone to go through life as an outcast. Instead,we should feel indignant,challenged to emerge from our comfortable isolation and to be changed by our contact with human suffering.That is the meaning of dignity #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 5 October 2020
  • “It is my desire that, in this our time, by acknowledging the dignity of each human person, we can contribute to the rebirth of a universal aspiration to fraternity. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 6 October 2020
  • “Let us dream, as a single human family, as fellow travelers sharing the same flesh, as children of the same earth which is our common home, each of us bringing the richness of his or her beliefs and convictions, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all.” @Pontifex 6 October 2020
  • “As believers, we are convinced that, without an openness to the Father of all, there will be no solid and stable reasons for an appeal to fraternity. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 7 October 2020
  • “The journey of fraternity has a Mother. In the power of the risen Lord, she wants to give birth to a new world, where all of us are brothers and sisters, where there is room for all our societies discard, where justice and peace are resplendent. #OurLadyOfTheRosary #FratelliTuttiI” @Pontifex 7 October 2020
  • “The proof of #prayer is real love for our neighbour. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 17 October 2020

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Author: jeffmiller

Jeff Miller is a former atheist who after spending forty years in the wilderness finds himself with both astonishment and joy a member of the Catholic Church.