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April 7, 2020 "In these days of Lent we have seen the persecution that Jesus suffered and how the doctors of the law strove against him: he was judged under fury, with fury, being innocent. I would like to pray today for all the people who suffer an unjust sentence, for fury ". Pope Francis said so at the beginning of the morning mass at Casa Santa Marta."None of us fell into the world by chance, by chance. Everyone has a destiny, but a free destiny, a destiny in the election of God: I was born with the destiny of being a child of God, of being a servant of God, with the task to serve, to build, to build. And this from the womb ", the Pope said in his homily, commenting on the readings of the day. "The servant of Yahweh, Jesus, served to the death - he continued -: it seemed a defeat, but it was the way of serving. And this underlines the way of serving that we must take in our life: to serve and give oneself, to give oneself to others , to serve and not to demand any benefit for each of us other than serving. " "The people of God are servants - the Pontiff reiterated - and when the people of God move away from this attitude of serving they are apostate people, they move away from the vocation that God has given. And when each of us moves away from this vocation to serve moves away from the love of God, builds his life on other loves, many times idolaters ".
"The Lord has chosen us from the womb - Francis explained - There are fallen in life, each of us is a sinner and can fall, and has fallen. Only Our Lady and Jesus, all the others have fallen, we are sinners". "But what matters is the attitude before the God who elected me, who anointed me as a servant," he stressed.
"It is the attitude of a sinner who is capable of asking for forgiveness, like Peter who swears no, 'I will never deny you Lord, never, never, never', then when the cock crows it cries and repents." According to the Pope, "this is the way of the servant when he slips, when he falls: it is asking for forgiveness. Instead when the servant is not able to understand that he has fallen, when passion takes him in such a way that leads him to idolatry, he opens the heart to Satan enters the night. It is what happened to Judah. " "We think of Jesus today - Francis concluded -, the faithful servant in the service, his vocation is to serve until death, death on the cross. We think of each of us, part of the people of God: we are servants, our vocation is for to serve, not to take advantage of our place in the Church, to serve, always in service. We ask for the grace to persevere in the service, sometimes with slips, falls, but the grace at least to cry, as Peter cried, "concluded the Pontiff.