VATICAN (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 during his homily at Mass for the Church’s celebration of Sunday of the Word of God in St. Peter’s Basilica on January 21.
“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. 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 they don’t, “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.
