The Weekly Francis – 28 June 2022

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 9 June 2022 to 28 June 2022.

Angelus

General Audiences

Homilies

Messages

Speeches

Papal Tweets

  • “Let us not forget the people of Ukraine battered by war. Let us not become accustomed to live as though the war is something far off. Let us #PrayTogether for these people who are suffering so much and who are living a true martyrdom.” @Pontifex, 15 June 2022
  • “Не забуваймо про багатостраждальний народ України, що перебуває в стані війни. Не звикаймо жити так, ніби війна є чимось далеким. #МолімосяРазом за цей народ, який багато страждає, переживаючи справжнє мучеництво.” @Pontifex, 15 June 2022
  • “The elderly who preserve the disposition for healing, consolation, intercession for their brothers and sisters, are perhaps the greatest witnesses of that gratitude that accompanies the faith. #BlessingOfTime” @Pontifex, 15 June 2022
  • “Jesus speaks in silence in the Mystery of the Eucharist. He reminds us every time that following him means going out of ourselves and not making our life a possession of our own, but rather a gift to him and to others.” @Pontifex, 16 June 2022
  • “Jesus knows our strengths and our defects, and is always ready to care for us, to heal the wounds of our errors with the abundance of his grace.” @Pontifex, 17 June 2022
  • “God makes himself tiny, like a morsel of bread. That is precisely why we need a large heart so we can recognize, adore and receive him.” @Pontifex, 18 June 2022
  • “And let us not forget the suffering of the Ukrainian people. I would like you all to keep in mind a question: what am I doing today for the Ukrainian people? Do I pray? Am I doing something? Am I trying to understand? Each one of you, answer in your heart.” @Pontifex, 19 June 2022
  • “І не забуваймо багатостраждальний український народ. Я хочу, щоб усі ви ставили собі запитання: що я сьогодні роблю для українського народу? Молюся? Докладаю якісь зусилля? Чи стараюся зрозуміти? Нехай кожен відповість у своєму серці.” @Pontifex, 19 June 2022
  • “Давайте не будем забывать о многострадальном украинском народе. Я бы хотел, чтобы у всех нас возник вопрос: «Что я сегодня делаю для украинского народа? Молюсь ли? Прилагаю какие-то усилия? Пытаюсь ли понять?» Пусть каждый ответит в своём сердце.” @Pontifex, 19 June 2022
  • “In the Body and Blood of Christ, we find his presence, his life given for each of us. He not only gives us help to go forward, but he gives us himself: he enters into our affairs, he visits us when we are lonely, giving us back a sense of enthusiasm. #CorpusChristi” @Pontifex, 19 June 2022
  • “I join the appeal of the bishops of #Myanmar, that the international community not forget the Burmese people, that human dignity and the right to life be respected, as well as places of worship, hospitals and schools.” @Pontifex, 19 June 2022
  • “If we want to cooperate with our heavenly Father in building the future, let us do so together with our brothers and sisters who are #migrants and #refugees. Let us build the future today! For the future begins today and it begins with each of us. #WorldRefugeeDay” @Pontifex, 20 June 2022
  • “We need to dream even as a Church. We need enthusiasm, we need the passion of youth, to be witnesses of God who is always young!” @Pontifex, 21 June 2022
  • “Tomorrow, the X World Meeting of Families will begin. It will take place in Rome and at the same time throughout the world. I thank the married couples and families who will bear witness to familial love as a vocation and way to holiness. Have a good meeting!” @Pontifex, 21 June 2022
  • “We need to live with our eyes raised to heaven: as Blessed Maria and Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi used to say to their children, confronting the efforts and joys of life, “always looking from the roof upwards”. #WMOF22” @Pontifex, 22 June 2022
  • “Whenever a man and a woman fall in love, God offers them a gift; that gift is marriage. It is a marvellous gift, which contains the power of God’s own love: strong, enduring, faithful, ready to start over after every failure or moment of weakness. #WMOF22” @Pontifex, 22 June 2022
  • “Dependence increases with illness, with old age, and we are no longer self-sufficient like we were before. Faith also matures here. Jesus is also with us here. Here, the wealth of our faith lived well during our journey through life also springs forth. #BlessingOfTime” @Pontifex, 22 June 2022
  • “Let us always look at young people with a smile. They carry on what we have sown. An elderly person cannot be happy without looking at young people and young people cannot move ahead in life without looking at the elderly.” @Pontifex, 22 June 2022
  • “I express my sympathy to the injured and those who have been affected by the earthquake in #Afghanistan, and I especially pray for those who have lost their lives and for their families. I hope that with everyone’s help the suffering of the people can be alleviated.” @Pontifex, 22 June 2022
  • “Families are places of welcome, and woe if they were to disappear! Society would become cold and unbearable without welcoming families. #WMOF22” @Pontifex, 22 June 2022
  • “As food diminishes, the thunder of weapons grows. So, let us not stop praying, fasting, helping, working so that paths of #peace might be given more space in the jungle of conflict.” @Pontifex, 23 June 2022
  • “What is needed is an infinite mercy, like that of the #SacredHeart, to remedy so much of the evil and suffering we see in the lives of human beings…. Let us entrust ourselves and the world to Him!” @Pontifex, 24 June 2022
  • “Dear priests, be patient with the faithful, always ready to encourage them. Be untiring ministers of God’s forgiveness and mercy. Never be harsh judges, but loving fathers.” @Pontifex, 24 June 2022
  • “Let us place in the #ImmaculateHeart of Mary, where God is mirrored, the inestimable goods of fraternity and peace, all that we have and are, so that she, the Mother whom the Lord has given to us, may protect us and watch over us.” @Pontifex, 25 June 2022
  • “The #family is the place of encounter, of sharing, of going forth from ourselves in order to welcome others and stand beside them. The family is the first place where we learn to love. #WMOF22
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  • “Dear families, be signs of the living Christ, do not be afraid of what the Lord asks of you, nor of being generous with Him. Be the seed of a more fraternal world! Be the welcoming face of the Church! And please pray, always pray! #WMOF22” @Pontifex, 26 June 2022
  • “I entrust to God the soul of Sister Luisa Dell’Orto, a Little Sister of the Gospel of Saint Charles de Foucauld, who made a gift of her life to others even to martyrdom. #LetsPrayTogether for the #Haitian people, so they might have a more serene future.” @Pontifex, 26 June 2022
  • “In #Ukraine, bombardments continue which are causing death, destruction and suffering for the population. Please, let us not forget these people afflicted by the war. Let us not forget this in our heart and with our prayers.” @Pontifex, 26 June 2022
  • “Let us ask Jesus for the strength to be like him, to follow him resolutely, not to be vindictive and intolerant when difficulties present themselves, when we spend ourselves in doing good and others do not understand this. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 9:51–62)” @Pontifex, 26 June 2022
  • “To serve the Gospel and our brothers and sisters, to offer our own lives without expecting anything in return, without seeking any worldly glory: this is what we are called to.” @Pontifex, 27 June 2022
  • “I sorrowfully heard the news of the tragedy of the #migrants in Texas and #Melilla. Let us #PrayTogether for these brothers and sisters who died following their hope of a better life; and for ourselves, may the Lord might open our hearts so these misfortunes never happen again.” @Pontifex, 28 June 2022
  • “The Christian #faith is fundamentally an encounter with Jesus Christ. If we truly believe in Jesus, we must try to act like Jesus did: encounter others, encounter our neighbours, so as to share the saving truth of the Gospel with them.” @Pontifex, 28 June 2022

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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.