The Weekly Francis – 20 October 2021

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 2 October 2021 to 20 October 2021.

Angelus

General Audiences

Homilies

Messages

Speeches

Papal Tweets

  • “#SaintTeresaofJesus teaches us that prayer is not to experience extraordinary things, but to unite ourselves to Christ. And the works of charity are the sign that this union is real.” @Pontifex, 15 October 2021
  • “Rural women have much to teach us about how effort and sacrifice enable us to build the fabric that ensures access to food, the equitable distribution of goods, and the possibility for every human being to realise their aspirations. #RuralWomenDay” @Pontifex, 15 October 2021
  • “The Word of God summons us to discernment and guides the #Synod, so it may be filled with grace, a healing process guided by the Spirit, in which Jesus calls us to ask what God wants to say to us in this time, and the direction in which he wants to lead us. #ListeningChurch” @Pontifex, 15 October 2021
  • “The large mining, oil, forestry, real estate, agribusiness companies to stop destroying nature, to stop polluting, to stop intoxicating people and food.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “That the media put an end to the logic of post-truth, disinformation, defamation, slander and that sick attraction for scandal and that they seek to contribute to human fraternity.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “The telecommunications giants to liberalise access to educational material and exchange with teachers via the internet so that poor children can be educated even under quarantine.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “Technology giants to stop preying on human weakness, people’s vulnerability, in order to make a profit.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “Arms manufacturers and dealers to totally cease their activity, that foments violence and war, often in the context of geopolitical games that costs millions of lives and displaces many people.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “The big food corporations to stop imposing monopolistic production and distribution structures that inflate prices and end up withholding bread from the hungry.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “All of us religious leaders, that we never use God’s name to foment wars. Let us stand by our people, the workers, the humble, and fight together with them so that integral human development may become a reality. Let us build bridges of love.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “Financial groups and international credit institutions to guarantee poor countries the basic needs of their people and to waive those debts so often contracted against the interests of those same peoples.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “The fight against hunger demands we overcome the cold logic of the market, which is greedily focused on mere economic profit and the reduction of food to a commodity, and strengthening the logic of solidarity. #WorldFoodDay” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “We must adapt our socio-economic models so they have a human face, because many models have lost it. Thinking about these situations, in God’s name I want to ask:” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “The Spirit asks us to listen to the questions, concerns and hopes of every Church, people and nation. And to listen to the world, to the challenges and changes that it sets before us. Let us not soundproof our hearts; let us listen to one another. #Synod #ListeningChurch” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “Powerful countries to stop aggression, blockades and unilateral sanctions against any country anywhere on earth and that conflicts be resolved in multilateral fora such as the United Nations.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “The big laboratories to liberalise patents and to carry out a gesture of humanity and allow every human being access to the vaccine.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “That governments and all politicians work for the common good. Let them beware of listening only to the economic elite; may they be servants of those people who ask for land, shelter and work and a good life in harmony with all humanity and creation.” @Pontifex, 16 October 2021
  • “Jesus asks us to immerse ourselves compassionately in the lives of those we meet as He has done with us. God is love and love is humble, it does not exalt itself, but descends like the rain that falls to the earth and brings life. #GospelOfTheDay (Mk 10:35–45)” @Pontifex, 17 October 2021
  • “The environmental and social crisis are two sides of the same coin. Therefore, strategies for resolving them demand an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature. #EndPoverty” @Pontifex, 17 October 2021
  • “Dear brothers and sisters, have a good journey! May we be open to the Holy Spirit’s surprises, the grace of encounter, reciprocal listening and discernment, joyfully convinced that, even as we seek the Lord, He always comes with His love to meet us first. #Synod #ListeningChurch” @Pontifex, 17 October 2021
  • “Today, thousands of children around the world are taking part in the campaign organized by #AidToTheChurchInNeed,praying the Rosary for unity and peace.Let us #PrayTogether with them to Our Lady with the same trust as these little ones have in our Heavenly Mother #ChildrenPraying” @Pontifex, 18 October 2021
  • “Persevering in the daily recitation of the #HolyRosary, we can meet each other every day with the Virgin Mother, learning from her how to cooperate fully with the plan of salvation that God has for each one of us. #ChildrenPraying” @Pontifex, 18 October 2021
  • “Prayer is like the oxygen of life. Prayer draws down upon us the presence of the Holy Spirit who always leads us forward. Adsumus, Sancte Spiritus” @Pontifex, 19 October 2021
  • “Come, Holy Spirit of love, open our hearts to listen. Come, Spirit of holiness, renew the holy faithful People of God. Come, creator Spirit, renew the face of the earth! #Synod #ListeningChurch prayforthesynod.va” @Pontifex, 19 October 2021
  • “True freedom – freedom in Christ – does not seek personal interests, but is guided by love and is expressed in service to others, especially to the poor. Love makes us free, it leads us to choose and to do good, it motivates us to serve. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex, 20 October 2021

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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.