Today's Angelus had quite different themes. In his commentary on the Gospel of the day, Pope Francis stressed the importance of humility. We must not think ourselves superior to others or be self-referential. To gloss this idea, the Pontiff referred to a priest who spoke so much about himself that his faithful said that he was continually incensing himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Referring to the parable of the tax collector and the sinner who go up to pray in the temple, he encouraged the faithful to apply it to themselves, checking \"whether in us, as in the Pharisee, there is 'the intimate presumption of being righteous' that leads us to despise others. It happens, for example, when we seek compliments and always enumerate our merits and good works, when we worry about appearing instead of being, when we allow ourselves to be trapped by narcissism and exhibitionism. We watch out for narcissism and exhibitionism, based on vainglory, which lead us Christians, priests, bishops to always have on our lips the word 'I': 'I did this, I wrote this, I wrote that. I said, 'I understood', and so on. Where there is too much 'I', there is too little God\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Pope also recalled that today \"is the celebration of the World Mission Day<\/a>which has as its motto 'You will be witnesses of me'. It is an important occasion to awaken in all the baptized the desire to participate in the universal mission of the Church through the witness and proclamation of the Gospel. I encourage everyone to support the missionaries with prayer and concrete solidarity, so that they can continue the work of evangelization and human promotion throughout the world\".<\/p>\n\n\n\nWYD in Lisbon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n