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Pope Francis on Sunday urged Christians to be an example to others of how to live a sober, nonmaterialistic lifestyle in peace with one’s community.
“It is important to know how to guard sobriety, to know how to be sober in the use of things — sharing resources, skills, and gifts, and doing without excess. Why? To be free: Excess enslaves you,” the pope said in his Angelus address on July 14.
The pope addressed the problems of materialism in his comments before praying the Angelus, a Marian prayer he leads every week on Sundays.
Speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, he reflected on the Sunday Gospel, from Mark 6, focusing on Jesus’ instructions to his apostles to “take nothing for the journey” as he sent them forth to preach.
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“It is important to know how to guard sobriety, to know how to be sober in the use of things — sharing resources, skills, and gifts, and doing without excess. Why? To be free: Excess enslaves you,” the pope said in his Angelus address on July 14.
The pope addressed the problems of materialism in his comments before praying the Angelus, a Marian prayer he leads every week on Sundays.
Speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, he reflected on the Sunday Gospel, from Mark 6, focusing on Jesus’ instructions to his apostles to “take nothing for the journey” as he sent them forth to preach.
Continued below.
Pope Francis: Having too many things is a kind of slavery
Pope Francis addressed the problems of materialism in his Angelus reflection in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.