The Pope prays for the unemployed. The Spirit increases understanding of faith

During the Mass in Santa Marta, Francesco prayed for those who suffer because they lost their jobs in this period and remembered the anniversary of the discovery of the body of San Timoteo in the Cathedral of Termoli. In his homily, he said that the Holy Spirit helps us to understand more and more what Jesus told us: the doctrine is not static, but grows in the same direction

Francis presided over Mass at Casa Santa Marta (FULL VIDEO) on Monday of the fifth week of Easter. In the introduction, he recalled the 75th anniversary of the discovery of the body of San Timoteo in the crypt of the Cathedral of Termoli, during restoration works in 1945, and addressed his thoughts to the unemployed:

Today we join the faithful of Termoli, on the feast of the invention (discovery) of the body of San Timoteo. In these days many people have lost their jobs; they have not been summarized, they worked illegally ... We pray for these brothers and sisters of ours who suffer from this lack of work.

In the homily, the Pope commented on today's Gospel (Jn 14, 21-26) in which Jesus says to his disciples: «If anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him and we will come to him and take dwell with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word you hear is not mine, but of the Father who sent me. I have said these things to you while I am still with you. But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name, he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have told you ».

"It is the promise of the Holy Spirit - said the Pope - the Holy Spirit who lives with us and whom the Father and the Son send" to "accompany us in life". He is called Paraclito, that is, He who "supports, who accompanies not to fall, who keeps you still, who is close to you to support you. And the Lord has promised us this support, which is God like Him: it is the Holy Spirit. What does the Holy Spirit do in us? The Lord says: "He will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have told you." Teach and remember. This is the office of the Holy Spirit. It teaches us: it teaches us the mystery of faith, it teaches us to enter the mystery, to understand the mystery a little more, it teaches us the doctrine of Jesus and teaches us how to develop our faith without making mistakes, because the doctrine grows, but always in the same direction: it grows in understanding. And the Spirit helps us grow in understanding faith, understanding it more "and" understanding what faith says. Faith is not a static thing; the doctrine is not a static thing: it grows "always, but grows" in the same direction. And the Holy Spirit prevents doctrine from being wrong, prevents it from remaining there, without growing in us. It will teach us the things that Jesus taught us, develop in us an understanding of what Jesus taught us, make the doctrine of the Lord grow in us, until maturity. "

And another thing the Holy Spirit does is remember: "He will remember everything I told you." "The Holy Spirit is like memory, it wakes us up", always keeps us awake "in the things of the Lord" and also makes us remember our life, when we met the Lord or when we left him.

The Pope recalls a person who prayed before the Lord thus: “Lord, I am the same one who as a child, as a boy, had these dreams. Then, I went on wrong paths. Now you called me. " This - he said - “is the memory of the Holy Spirit in one's life. It brings you to the memory of salvation, to the memory of what Jesus taught, but also the memory of one's life ". This - he continued - is a beautiful way of praying to the Lord: “I am the same. I walked a lot, I made a lot of mistakes, but I am the same and you love me ". It is "the memory of the journey of life".

“And in this memory, the Holy Spirit guides us; it guides us to discern, to discern what I have to do now, what is the right path and what is the wrong one, even in small decisions. If we ask the light of the Holy Spirit, He will help us to discern in order to make the real decisions, the small ones of every day and the largest ones ”. The Spirit "accompanies us, sustains us in discernment", "will teach us everything, that is, make faith grow, introduce us into mystery, the Spirit who reminds us: it reminds us of faith, reminds us of our life and the Spirit who in this teaching, in this memory, teaches us to discern the decisions we must make. " And the Gospels give a name to the Holy Spirit, in addition to Paràclito, because it supports you, “another more beautiful name: it is the Gift of God. The Spirit is the Gift of God. The Spirit is the Gift: 'I will not leave you alone, I will send you a Paraclete who will support you and help us to move forward, to remember, to discern and to grow. The gift of God is the Holy Spirit. "

"May the Lord - Pope Francis' final prayer - help us to keep this gift that He gave us in Baptism and that we all have inside".