How to listen to God’s word according to Pope Francis

[Michie]

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God’s word cuts through the sea of chatter spoken aloud and uttered online to touch the hearts of Christians and inspire them to share the Gospel, Pope Francis said.

“While society and social media reflect the violence of words, let us draw closer to and cultivate the quiet word that brings salvation, that is meek, that doesn’t make noise, that enters into the heart,” the pope said during his homily at Mass for the church’s celebration of Sunday of the Word of God in St. Peter’s Basilica Jan. 21.

Although Christians today are “barraged by words about the church,” he encouraged them to “rediscover the word of life that resounds in the church.”


“If not, we end up talking more about ourselves” than about Jesus, “and concentrate on our own thoughts and problems rather than on Christ and his word,” the pope told the approximately 5,000 people gathered for Mass in the basilica.

The Sunday of the Word of God​

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How to listen to God's word according to Pope Francis

"We need to stop being 'deaf' to God's word," Pope Francis preached Jan. 21, as the Church observed the Sunday of the Word of God

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[Chrystal-J]

"We need to stop being 'deaf' to God's word," Pope Francis preached Jan. 21, as the Church observed the Sunday of the Word of God.

Guess he skipped this part of God's Word,

1 Corinthians 6:9-10​

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.