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In a homily delivered to an estimated 600,000 people – or nearly half the population of Timor-Leste – Pope Francis says that children are both a blessing and a sign.According to the local authorities, about 600,000 people – or nearly half of the country’s population – were in attendance.
These words, the Pope said, were addressed to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and came at “a prosperous time for that city”, but one also characterised by “great moral decadence”. Despite the city’s great wealth, the poor were abandoned and went hungry, infidelity was rampant, and religious practice “increasingly reduced to mere formalism.”
“How wonderful,” the Pope continued, “that here in Timor-Leste there are so many children: you are a young country and we can see every corner of your land teeming with life.” "Let us not be afraid," he urged,"to make ourselves small before God and each other, not afraid ... to give our time, to revise our plans by sacrificing something so that a brother or sister might get better and be happy.”
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