Pope Francis warned in his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square today (June 1, 2016) that arrogance not only distances us from God but also compromises each of our actions and makes our prayer useless, according to the National Catholic Reporter website.
Reflecting on the Gospel parable comparing the ways that a Pharisee and a tax collector pray at the Jewish Temple, the pontiff said that humility is "the necessary condition to be raised up by God, to experience the mercy that fills to the brim our emptiness."
"Whoever believes themselves just and judges others and scorns them is corrupt and a hypocrite," the pope exhorted. "Arrogance compromises every good action, empties prayer, distances from God and others."
"If the prayer of the arrogant doesn't reach the heart of God, the humility of the miserable opens it wide," he added.
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