ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE ITALIAN MASTERS OF LABOUR FEDERATION
Paul VI Audience Hall
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May the Beatitudes of Jesus in the Gospel guide us along this arduous but exciting
journey (cf. Mt 5: 3-11, Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et exsultate, 67-94); may
they lead us to look always with love to Jesus Himself who incarnated them in His
person; may they show us that holiness does not concern the spirit alone, but also
the feet, so that we go towards our brothers, and the hands, so as to share with
them. May they teach us and our world not to distrust or leave at the mercy of the
waves those who leave their land hungry for bread and justice; may they lead us not
to live for the superfluous, but to spend ourselves for the development of all, and to
bow with compassion to the weakest. Without the comfortable illusion that, from the
rich table of the few, wellbeing might “rain” automatically upon everyone. This is not
true.
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