{"id":16672,"date":"2020-06-03T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16672"},"modified":"2020-06-03T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T00:56:05","slug":"the-weekly-francis-volume-319-03-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2020\/06\/the-weekly-francis-volume-319-03-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekly Francis &#8211; Volume 319 &#8211; 03 June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pope-francis2-300x187.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pope-francis2-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"pope-francis2-300x187\" class=\"wp-image-14281\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 19 December 2019 to 3 June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Weekly Francis is a compilation of the Holy Father\u2019s writings, speeches, etc which I also post at <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.com\/category\/popefrancis\">Jimmy Akin\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Audiences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/audiences\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200527_udienza-generale.html\">27 May 2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Homilies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/homilies\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_omelia-pentecoste.html\">31 May 2020 &#8211; Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Pentecost<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Letters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/letters\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_lettera-sacerdoti.html\">31 May 2020 &#8211; Letter of the Holy Father to the Priests of the Diocese of Rome<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Messages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/pont-messages\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200530_videomessaggio-charis.html\">30 May 2020 &#8211; Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Pentecost Vigil promoted by CHARIS (Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/pont-messages\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_videomessaggio-thykingdome-come.html\">31 May 2020 &#8211; Video Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the \u201cThy Kingdom Come\u201d event<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/pont-messages\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_messaggio-50-ritoconsacrazione-vergini.html\">31 May 2020 &#8211; Message of His Holiness Pope Francis on the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of the revised Rite of Consecration of Virgins<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/missions\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_giornata-missionaria2020.html\">31 May 2020 &#8211; Message for World Mission Day 2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Motu Proprio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/motu_proprio\/documents\/papa-francesco-motu-proprio-20200519_procedure-aggiudicazione-contrattipubblici.html\">19 May 2020 &#8211; Apostolic Letter in the form of \u201cMotu Proprio\u201d on transparency, control and competition in the procedures for awarding public contracts of the Holy See and Vatican City State<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Prayers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/prayers\/documents\/papa-francesco_preghiere_20200524_preghiera-anno-laudatosi.html\">24 May 2020 &#8211; Prayer for the fifth anniversary of the Encyclical \u201cLaudato Si\u2019: On the Care for Our Common Home\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/angelus\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_regina-coeli_20200524.html\">24 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/angelus\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_regina-coeli_20200531.html\">31 May 2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Speeches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2019\/december\/documents\/papa-francesco_20191219_rifugiati-lesbo.html\">19 December 2019 &#8211; The Holy Father meets a group of refugees from Lesbos (Greece)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2020\/february\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200221_testi-legislativi.html\">21 February 2020 &#8211; To Participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2020\/february\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200224_pro-petri-sede.html\">24 February 2020 &#8211; To members of the \u201cPro Petri Sede\u201d Association<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Papal Tweets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe Holy Spirit makes us take flight, opens up the wonderful destiny for which we were born, and nourishes us with living hope. Let us ask Him to come to us, and He will draw near.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1266330949450514433\">@Pontifex 29 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cDear brother priests, I want to fraternally share with you all these things that I thought and felt during this time of the pandemic, so that they might help us in our journey of praise for the Lord and of service to our brothers. <a href=\"http:\/\/vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/letters\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_lettera-sacerdoti.html\">Letter<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1266738635694649350\">@Pontifex 30 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cThe Faith provides us with a realistic and creative imagination, capable of abandoning the logic of repetition, of substitution or of preservation; it invites us to initiate a season that is always new: the season of the Lord.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1266746187719163904\">@Pontifex 30 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cWe need the Holy Spirit to give us new eyes, to open our minds and our hearts to face the present moment and the future having learned this lesson: That humanity is one. No one is saved alone. No one.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1266829232707002368\">@Pontifex 30 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cFrom humanity\u2019s great trials, among which is the #pandemic, we come out better or worse. We will not be the same. And that is why we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit today so that He might change our hearts and help us to come out better.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1266995326977622016\">@Pontifex 31 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cHoly Spirit, memory of God, revive in us the memory of the gift received. Free us from the paralysis of selfishness and awaken in us the desire to serve, to do good. #Pentecost\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267025526771691520\">@Pontifex 31 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cCome, Holy Spirit: you are harmony; make us builders of unity. You always give yourself; grant us the courage to go out of ourselves, to love and help each other, in order to become one family. Amen. #Pentecost\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267028042402033665\">@Pontifex 31 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cLet\u2019s view the Church with the Spirit\u2019s eyes not with the world\u2019s which sees us on the right or left. The Spirit sees sons &amp; daughters of the Father,Jesus\u2019s brothers &amp; sisters. The world sees conservatives and progressives. The Spirit sees children of God. <a href=\"http:\/\/vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/homilies\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_omelia-pentecoste.html\">Homily<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267044917223796737\">@Pontifex 31 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201c#Mission is a free and conscious response to God\u2019s call. Yet we discern this call only when we have a personal relationship of love with Jesus present in his Church. <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/missions\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_giornata-missionaria2020.html\">Message<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267063277185568768\">@Pontifex 31 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cHow I desire that we Christians be more deeply united as witnesses of mercy for the human family so severely tested in these days. Let\u2019s ask the Spirit for the gift of unity, for only if we live as brothers &amp; sisters can we spread the spirit of fraternity. <a href=\"http:\/\/vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/pont-messages\/2020\/documents\/papa-francesco_20200531_videomessaggio-thykingdome-come.html\">Message<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267078377967464450\">@Pontifex 31 May 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cThe Holy Spirit assures us that we are not alone, that God sustains us. Dear friends, we must give in turn the gift that we have received: we are called to share the comfort of the Spirit, the closeness of God.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267387914843033601\">@Pontifex 1 June 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cA Church that is mother follows the path of tenderness and compassion. A son or daughter of the Church is therefore meek, tender, smiling, and full of love. #MaryMotherOfTheChurch\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267418113093574656\">@Pontifex 1 June 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cLet us invoke the Holy Spirit. May He might give light and strength to the Church and society in the #Amazon region, sorely tried by the pandemic. I pray for the poorest of that precious Region and the world. And I plead that they may not lack health care.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267750302289035265\">@Pontifex 2 June 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cWe have such need of the light and strength of the Holy Spirit! The Church needs it to walk harmoniously and courageously in the witness of the Gospel. And the entire human family needs it so as to move out of this crisis more united and not more divided.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1267780502007672844\">@Pontifex 2 June 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cWe cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form. At the same time, we have to recognize that violence is self-destructive and self-defeating. Nothing is gained by violence and so much is lost. Let us pray for reconciliation and peace.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1268105142320001024\">@Pontifex 3 June 2020<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cLet us learn from Abraham to pray with faith: listening, walking, engaging in dialogue to the point of argument, but always willing to accept God\u2019s word and to put it into practice. #GeneralAudience\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1268142888694820864\">@Pontifex 3 June 2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Papal Instagram<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/franciscus\/\">Franciscus<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 19 December 2019 to 3 June 2020. 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