Ministers must convey God's mercy, Pope says at morning Mass
October 06, 2015
Pope Francis warned pastors against hardness of heart, in his homily at morning Mass on October 6.
Celebrating Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae before joining the Synod of Bishops, the Pope commented on the day’s reading about Jonah’s mission to Nineveh, and the prophet’s “resistance of God’s mercy.”
“Where the Lord is, there is mercy,” the Pope said. Citing the words of St. Ambrose, he remarked that the Lord’s ministers often interfere with that mercy, through their own hardness of heart: “the rigidity that defies mission, that challenges mercy.”
The Holy Father concludes his homily with a prayer for “the Lord to help us understand his heart, to understand what mercy means.”
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