"I ask to read, so I don't get too tired; I still have a cold and it makes me tired to read for a while. But I would like to underline one thing: it is very important that there is this meeting, this meeting between men and women, because today the danger the uglier is the ideology of gender, which cancels out differences. I asked to carry out studies on this ugly ideology of our time, which erases differences and makes everything the same; erasing difference means erasing humanity. Man and woman Instead, they are in a fruitful tension."
Pope Francis says this while receiving the participants in the Conference on the Anthropology of Vocations.
"If it is true that each of us has a mission - is the text of the speech prepared by the Pope, however read by one of his collaborators, Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli - "that is, we are called to offer our own contribution to improving the world and forging society, I always like to remember that it is not an external task entrusted to our life, but a dimension that involves our very nature, the structure of our being man-woman in the image and likeness of God". "Not only - the text continues - we have been entrusted with a mission, but each and every one of us is a mission".
"Brothers and sisters, your research, your studies and in a special way these opportunities for discussion - he continues - are so necessary and important, so that awareness of the vocation to which every human being is called by God, in different states of life and thanks to his multiple charisms. They are also useful for questioning ourselves about today's challenges, the ongoing anthropological crisis and the necessary promotion of human and Christian vocations. And it is important that an increasingly effective circularity develops, also thanks to your contribution. among the different vocations, so that the works that flow from the state of lay life at the service of society and the Church, together with the gift of the ordained ministry and consecrated life, can contribute to generating hope in a world over which heavy experiences of death loom ".
"Generating this hope - he continues -, placing oneself at the service of the Kingdom of God for the construction of an open and fraternal world is a task entrusted to every woman and every man of our time".
"I wish you good work! - the Pontiff himself said off the cuff - And do not be afraid in these rich moments in the life of the Church. The Holy Spirit asks us one important thing: fidelity. But fidelity is on the way and fidelity often leads us to take risks. "Museum fidelity" is not fidelity. Go forward with the courage to discern and risk seeking God's will. I wish you the best. Courage and move forward, without losing your sense of humor!".
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