This morning, at 12:15pm (local time) in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father, Pope Francis received in audience, students from the Institution des Chartreux from Lyon (France).
Dear brothers and sisters,
I welcome you with joy on the occasion of your cultural and spiritual visit which has taken place here in Rome. With you, I cordially greet the Superior of the Institution des Chartreux, the professors who have accompanied you, not forgetting all those who have remained in Lyon, and Cardinal Barbarin.
You are involved in a course of study that is preparing you to enter great schools of commerce and which, at the proper moment, will permit you to develop a profession in the world of international finance. I am pleased to know that your academic formation includes a strong humanitarian, philosophical and spiritual dimension, and for this I thank God. In fact, it is essential that, beginning now and throughout your professional future, you learn to remain free from the lure of money, from slavery where money keeps those who create of it a cult. It is also important that today, you acquire the strength and the courage to not blindly obey the invisible hand of the market. Therefore, I encourage you to take advantage of this period of your studies to form yourselves and to become promotors and defenders of growth in equality, artisans of a just and adequate administration of our common home, which is the entire world (cf Evangelii gaudium, 204, 206).
Here in Rome, you are experiencing a kind of immersion in history which has strongly affected the emergence of European nations. Admiring the genius of mankind and the hopes that they have cultivated, to achieve and to have at heart, you too have left your footprint on history. In fact, you have the ability to decide your future. I want to repeat this: you have the ability to decide your own future. For this reason, I urge you to take responsibility for this world and for the life of every person. Never forget that every injustice against a poor person is an open wound, and it diminishes your own dignity (Catechesis, 20 September 2017). And even if this world should expect you to strive for success, give yourselves the means and the time to travel the pathways of fraternity, in order to build bridges rather than walls between people, adding your own stones to the edification of a more just and human society.
From this perspective, I invite those of you who are Christians to always remain united to the Lord Jesus in prayer, in order to learn to entrust all things to God, and thus you will not give in to the temptation to discouragement and despair. I also want to say, with respect and affection, to those who are not Christians: never forget, in the glances you focus on others and on yourselves, that man infinitely surpasses man (Blaise Pascal, Pensieri, fragment 122). And I encourage you all to work for good, to become the humble seeds of a new world.
With this hope, I entrust each one of you to the Lord, that you may cultivate a culture of encounter and of sharing at the heart of every human family, and I willingly invoke the blessing of the Lord on all of you, over those who have accompanied you, as well as upon all the members of your families and on the Institution des Chartreux. Thank you very much!
Greetings of the Holy Father, Pope Francis
for the meeting with students from the
Institution des Chartreux
Dear brothers and sisters,
I welcome you with joy on the occasion of your cultural and spiritual visit which has taken place here in Rome. With you, I cordially greet the Superior of the Institution des Chartreux, the professors who have accompanied you, not forgetting all those who have remained in Lyon, and Cardinal Barbarin.
You are involved in a course of study that is preparing you to enter great schools of commerce and which, at the proper moment, will permit you to develop a profession in the world of international finance. I am pleased to know that your academic formation includes a strong humanitarian, philosophical and spiritual dimension, and for this I thank God. In fact, it is essential that, beginning now and throughout your professional future, you learn to remain free from the lure of money, from slavery where money keeps those who create of it a cult. It is also important that today, you acquire the strength and the courage to not blindly obey the invisible hand of the market. Therefore, I encourage you to take advantage of this period of your studies to form yourselves and to become promotors and defenders of growth in equality, artisans of a just and adequate administration of our common home, which is the entire world (cf Evangelii gaudium, 204, 206).
Here in Rome, you are experiencing a kind of immersion in history which has strongly affected the emergence of European nations. Admiring the genius of mankind and the hopes that they have cultivated, to achieve and to have at heart, you too have left your footprint on history. In fact, you have the ability to decide your future. I want to repeat this: you have the ability to decide your own future. For this reason, I urge you to take responsibility for this world and for the life of every person. Never forget that every injustice against a poor person is an open wound, and it diminishes your own dignity (Catechesis, 20 September 2017). And even if this world should expect you to strive for success, give yourselves the means and the time to travel the pathways of fraternity, in order to build bridges rather than walls between people, adding your own stones to the edification of a more just and human society.
From this perspective, I invite those of you who are Christians to always remain united to the Lord Jesus in prayer, in order to learn to entrust all things to God, and thus you will not give in to the temptation to discouragement and despair. I also want to say, with respect and affection, to those who are not Christians: never forget, in the glances you focus on others and on yourselves, that man infinitely surpasses man (Blaise Pascal, Pensieri, fragment 122). And I encourage you all to work for good, to become the humble seeds of a new world.
With this hope, I entrust each one of you to the Lord, that you may cultivate a culture of encounter and of sharing at the heart of every human family, and I willingly invoke the blessing of the Lord on all of you, over those who have accompanied you, as well as upon all the members of your families and on the Institution des Chartreux. Thank you very much!
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