POPE TALK | KAIROS GLOBAL | AUGUST 2024

Author: Dr Kochurani Joseph

• Caring for the environment is an act of love and Christian charity extends to protecting all of God’s creation.   

• Drug traffickers are traffickers of death driven by the logic of power and money at any cost. It diminishes human strength and moral fibre. 

• Jesus does not spare us from difficulties but strengthens us with the Eucharist to have the courage to face them.

• Jesus Christ is the heart of ecumenism; He is divine mercy incarnate and our ecumenical mission is to bear witness to this.

• It is necessary to make the Psalms as our prayer. Psalms are the songs that the Spirit Himself has placed on the lips of the Bride, His Church for all seasons, it is good to repeat them and pray them during the day.

• Trust that God the Father often works in hidden ways under the surface before bringing the seeds of the Gospel to full bloom.

• A synodal spirit asks us to react with empathy to the suffering and painful experiences of others.

• If we let ourselves be conditioned by the quest for pleasure, power, money, or consensus, we become slaves to these things.

• Let us defend the family, which is oxygen to help children grow, although there are storms within it, cold war in families, encourages living forgiveness.

• We all fall in life, but the important thing is not to stay down. 

• A free Christian is the one who has the Spirit of the Lord, with freedom to do not what one wants, but to freely do what God wants. 

August

For political leadersWe pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and for the common good, especially caring for the poor and those who have lost their jobs.