POPE TALK | KAIROS GLOBAL | JULY 2022

Author: Dr Kochurani Joseph

• The strategy of heaven includes breaking the cycle of violence, the spiral of hatred and to start protecting one another.

• The Church's social doctrines follow an accompaniment with closeness and compassion, toward the other, the marginalised person, toward the face of the poor, the migrant.

• Life is a gift from God and is always sacred and inviolable, and we cannot silence the voice of conscience. 

• For no one can leave others peace if they do not have it within themselves; no one can give peace unless that person is at peace.

• The Holy Spirit gives us the strength to forgive, to begin again, and to set out anew because we cannot do this with our own strength and with him we become men and women of peace. 

• If you have some wound in your heart, some pain and you want to object, object even to God, God will listen to you; he is not afraid of our prayer of protest, God understands. But be free, and don’t imprison your prayer within preconceived paradigms.

• The family has a decisive role today in the pastoral conversion of communities and the missionary transformation of the Church.

• In your life leave a legacy of good, rather than just goods.

• The Church must become increasingly synodal: capable of walking together, united in harmonious diversity, where everyone has something to contribute.

• Christians with 'empty nets' must return to Jesus; the emptiness out of tiredness, disappointment, perhaps out of laziness. 

• We need family-friendly social, economic, and cultural policies that make it possible to harmonise family and work; fiscal policies that recognise family burdens and support the educational functions of families; policies that welcome life.

JULY

ELDERLYWe pray for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of a people; 

may their experience and wisdom help young people to look towards 

the future with hope and responsibility.