(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 09 - The Church is like a "boat at the mercy of the storm", "in every age it encounters headwinds, sometimes very harsh trials". The Pope said this at the Angelus adding: "We think of certain long and bitter persecutions of the past century and even today in some parts. In those situations, you may be tempted to think that God has abandoned you. Main reality is precisely in those moments. that the testimony of faith "," of love "and" of hope "shines the most.
Then the Pope, recalling the attitude of Peter in today's Gospel, stressed: "We are all people of little faith, all of us, me too" but God knows that "our faith is poor and that our path can be troubled" . (HANDLE).
Pope: Church as a boat at the mercy of the storm
2020-08-09T10:55:33.514Z
The Church is like a "boat at the mercy of the storm", "in every age it encounters headwinds, sometimes very hard trials". (HANDLE)