(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, MAY 23 - A Church that brings mercy instead of "inculcating rules", that is united and not shared in 'isms' and ideologies, that puts "God first" and not his plans and reforms. This is what Pope Francis asked for at the Pentecost Mass.
"Today, if we listen to the Spirit, we will not concentrate on conservatives and progressives, traditionalists and innovators, right and left, no: if these are the criteria, it means that the Spirit is forgotten in the Church", said Papan. Church fights ideologies within itself and aims "at unity, concord, harmony of diversity". "The enemy - he added referring to the devil - wants diversity to be transformed into opposition and for this reason it becomes ideology. Say 'no' to ideologies and 'yes' to the whole ".
The Church in this time, marked by suffering from pandemic, is called to bring consolation "not by making great speeches, but by making us neighbors; not with words of circumstance, but with prayer and closeness". "The Paraclete tells the Church that today is the time of consolation. It is the time of the happy proclamation of the Gospel rather than of the fight against paganism. It is the time to bring the joy of the Risen One, not to complain about the drama of secularization. It is the time to pour love on the world. , without marrying worldliness. It is the time to bear witness to mercy rather than inculcate rules and norms ".
Finally, he warned bishops and priests: "If in the first place are our projects, our structures and our plans of reform, we will expire in functionalism, efficiency, horizontalism and we will not bear fruit. The 'isms' are ideologies that divide, that separate "," let's put God first! ". (HANDLE).