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May 7, 2020 "Yesterday I received a letter from a group of artists: they thanked them for the prayer we did for them. I would like to ask the Lord to bless them because the artists make us understand what beauty is. And without beauty, the The Gospel cannot be understood. Let us pray again for the artists ". So Pope Francis introducing mass at Casa Santa Marta.

Being Christian - the pope said in the homily - does not mean being part of "an elite" with "the others" who instead "will go to hell, and if they are saved it will be for God's mercy but they are the discarded"; "Christianity is belonging to a people chosen by God for free". "The sense of the elite hurts us so much", stressed the Pope for whom "without this awareness of belonging to a people we will be ideological Christians, with a doctrine, an ethics, a morality" but only "self-styled Christians". "The most dangerous deviation of Christians is the lack of memory of belonging to a people," he concluded.