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01 August 2021 The Pope on this first Sunday in August touches on a theme dear to him, why we seek the Lord and what the Gospel teaches us: "we need to discern this, because among the many temptations there is one that we could call idolatrous temptation ". "It is what drives us to seek God for our own use and consumption - the Pope explained -, to solve problems, to have, thanks to Him, what we cannot obtain by ourselves. For interest. But in this way, faith remains superficial and also, I allow myself the word, faith remains miraculous: we seek God to feed ourselves and then we forget about him when we are full ". "At the center of this immature faith - Francis continued - there is no God, there are our needs, our interests. It is right to present our needs to the heart of God,but the Lord, who acts far beyond our expectations, wishes to live with us above all a relationship of love ".



"And true love is selfless, it is free - he added -: we do not love to receive a favor in return. This is interest, and many times in life we ​​are interested". The Pope also explained that the important thing "is not to add religious practices or observe special precepts; it is to welcome Jesus, to welcome him into life, to live a love story", because "there is a relationship with him that goes beyond logic of interest and calculation ". "This is true with regard to God, but it is also true in our human and social relationships - he observed - when we seek above all the satisfaction of our needs, we risk using people and exploiting situations for our purposes. How many times have we heard of a person, 'this uses people and then forgets'. Using people: this is bad! And a society that focuses on interests instead of people is a society that does not generate life ".



 "The invitation of the Gospel is this - concluded the Pope -: rather than being concerned only with the material bread that feeds us, we welcome Jesus as the bread of life and, starting from our friendship with him, we learn to love one another. . With gratuitousness and without calculations. Love free and without calculations, without using people, with gratuity, with generosity, with magnanimity ".