Jimmy Akin

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 26 April 2022 to 4 July 2022.

Angelus

• 29 June 2022 – Angelus, Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
• 3 July 2022 – Angelus

Apostolic Letter

• 29 June 2022 – Apostolic Letter Desiderio desideravi, on the liturgical formation of the People of God

Homilies

• 29 June 2022 – Holy Mass and blessing of the Pallium for the new Metropolitan Archbishops on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

Messages

• 26 April 2022 – Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Congreso Nacional Católico de Pastoral Hispana ’Raíces y Alas 2022 [April 26–30 in Arlington]
• 15 June 2022 – Message of the Holy Father to the president of Spanish Caritas on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its founding
• 2 July 2022 – Video message of the Holy Father to the peoples of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan

Speeches

• 30 June 2022 – To the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
• 30 June 2022 – To the Delegation of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations
• 4 July 2022 – To the Delegation of the ‘Ligue Européenne de Natation’

Papal Tweets

• “#SaintsPeterandPaul, intercede for us, for the city of Rome, for the Church and the entire world!” @Pontifex, 29 June 2022
• “#Drought is a serious problem. It should make us reflect on the care of #creation, which is not a fad, it is everyone’s responsibility. The future of the earth is in our hands.” @Pontifex, 29 June 2022
• “Every day I carry in my heart the dear and tormented #Ukraine, which continues to be scourged by barbaric attacks. Let us #PrayTogether that the Lord open those paths of dialogue that men are unwilling or unable to find!” @Pontifex, 29 June 2022
• “The journey of faith is never a walk in the park, but is a commitment that is sometimes arduous. Even #SaintsPeterandPaul had to learn how to gradually trod it all the way to the end, especially during moments of trial.” @Pontifex, 29 June 2022
• “Let us listen together to what the Spirit is saying to the Church. Let us safeguard our communion. The Paschal Mystery has been given to us. Let us allow ourselves to be embraced by the desire that the Lord continues to have to eat His Passover with us.” @Pontifex, 29 June 2022
• “Desiderio desideravi – with this letter I desire to share with you some reflections on the liturgy, a dimension fundamental for the life of the Church. https://t.co/ZrdjkPzqou Apostolic Letter” @Pontifex, 29 June 2022
• “Let us #PrayTogether for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of their people, so that their experience and wisdom may help young people to look hopefully and responsibly towards the future. #PrayerIntention https://t.co/lbWZfhNBHD Video” @Pontifex, 30 June 2022
• “The #Synod we are now celebrating calls us to become a Church that gets up to go out to meet the world, a Church in which everyone feels welcomed, where the art of listening, dialogue and participation are cultivated under the sole authority of the Holy Spirit.” @Pontifex, 30 June 2022
• “During difficult moments, let us not close in on ourselves, shutting Jesus out. Let us seek Jesus, return to him, to his forgiveness, to those wounds that have healed us. In this way, we too will become capable of compassion, of approaching the wounds of others.” @Pontifex, 1 July 2022
• “Every time we open our hearts to Jesus, God’s blessing enters our lives.” @Pontifex, 2 July 2022
• “Dear brothers and sisters of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of South Sudan, I carry you in my heart more than ever. I hold in prayer the suffering you have borne for a long time. While waiting to meet you, I ask that the Lord’s peace descend upon your hearts.” @Pontifex, 2 July 2022
• “#LetsPrayTogether for peace in Ukraine and worldwide. Let us pass from strategies of political, economic and military power to a plan for global peace: no to a world divided between conflicting powers; yes to united world of peoples and civilizations that respect each other.” @Pontifex, 3 July 2022
• “#МолімосяРазом за мир в Україні та в усьому світі! Потрібно перейти від стратегій політичного, економічного та військового впливу до глобального проекту миру: ні світові, поділеному між силами, які конфліктують; так світові єдності між народами і цивілізаціями у взаємопошані.” @Pontifex, 3 July 2022
• “Brothers, sisters, let us not place our trust in wealth and not fear our poverties, material and human. The more we are free and simple, the more the Holy Spirit gudies the mission and makes us agents of his wonders.” @Pontifex, 3 July 2022
• “The evangelizing mission is not based on personal activism, that is, on “doing”, but on the witness of brotherly love, even amid the difficulties that living together entails. #GospelOftheDay (Lk 10:1–12.17–20).” @Pontifex, 3 July 2022
• “#ПомолимсяВместе о мире в Украине и во всём мире. Нужно перейти от стратегий политической, экономической и военной мощи к глобальному проекту мира. Нет – миру, разделённому между конфликтующими державами; да – миру, объединяющему народы и цивилизации, которые уважают друг друга.” @Pontifex, 3 July 2022
• “Today, #LetsPrayTogether for #peace and reconciliation in the Democratic Republic of the #Congo, so wounded and exploited. Let us join in the Masses celebrated there with this intention, and let us pray that Christians be witnesses of peace.” @Pontifex, 3 July 2022
• “The existence of the human person is but a breath, his or her affairs are fleeting, but those who pray know they are precious in God’s eyes. #Prayer” @Pontifex, 4 July 2022

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

Angelus

• 19 June 2022 – Angelus, Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
• 26 June 2022 – Angelus

General Audiences

• 15 June 2022 – General Audience – Catechesis on Old Age’ 14. The joyful service of faith that is learned in gratitude (cf. Mk 1, 29–31)
• 22 June 2022 – General Audience – Catechesis on Old Age’ 15. Peter and John

Homilies

• 25 June 2022 – Holy Mass – X World Meeting of Families

Messages

• 21 June 2022 – Message of the Holy Father To His Excellency Ambassador Alexander Kmentt President of the First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
• 28 June 2022 – Video message of the Holy Father to the participants in the first ‘Global Youth Tourism Summit’ [Sorrento, 27 June – 3 July 2022]

Speeches

• 9 June 2022 – To the bishops and priests of the churches of Sicily
• 17 June 2022 – To the Buddhist Delegation from Thailand
• 18 June 2022 – To the participants in the ‘Syro-Malabar Youth Leaders Conference’
• 18 June 2022 – To participants in the General Chapter of the Society of Saint Paul
• 20 June 2022 – To the Synod Assembly of the Greek-Melkite Church
• 22 June 2022 – Festival of Families – X World Meeting of Families
• 23 June 2022 – To the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches
• 27 June 2022 – To the communities of the Neocatechumenal way

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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