Pope Francis celebrated Mass for East Timor's overwhelming Catholic majority today (Sept. 10, 2024), applauding the country for its high percentage of youth and stressing the importance of becoming small and humble in order for God to work miracles, the Crux website reports.
Speaking to Catholics during his Sept. 10 Mass at the Esplanade of Taci Tolu in Dili, the pope said, "Let us not be afraid to make ourselves small before God, and before each other, to lose our lives, to give up our time, to revise our schedules, giving up something to help a brother or sister become better and happier."
"Let us not be afraid to scale down our plans when necessary, not in order to diminish them, but to make them even more beautiful lthrough the gift of ourselves and the acceptance of others, with all the unpredictability that this entails," he added.
True kingship, he said, "is seen in those who give their life out of love."
Pope Francis is in Dili as part of a broader Sept2--13 tour of Asia and Oceania that has so far taken him to Indonesia and Papua, New Guinea, and which will take him in Singapore before he returns to Rome.
It marks the longest and farthest trip of Francis's papacy.
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