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In the wake of the deadly flooding that killed 216 people in Valencia, Spain, Pope Francis told seminarians and seminary staff from the region to immerse themselves in the suffering of their people and give them signs of hope. Pope : Priests should be ‘shaped’ by people’s pain
During a meeting Jan. 30 at the Vatican, the pope said the community in and around Valencia experienced “a pain and grief that in spite of its hardness opens us to hope because, forcing us to touch the bottom and to leave behind everything that seemed to sustain us, it allows us to go beyond.” He told the seminarians they are called to bring the tenderness of God to those living in darkness and urged them during the Holy Year to reflect on a passage from the Book of Isaiah, in which the prophet says God has anointed him ” to bind up the brokenhearted.”
“We cannot take people’s suffering lightly and try to console them with particular phrases and do-goodism,” he said. “Our hope has a name, Jesus, that God who was not disgusted by our mud and who, instead of saving us from the mud, became mud for us.”
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