“Christians and the Church must strip themselves of worldliness, said Pope Francis while addressing some of the poor in the Italian hill town of Assisi early Friday. The Pope offered this message in the same hall in which St. Francis, about 800 years ago, undressed himself and laid his fine clothes at his wealthy father’s feet, renouncing his riches and inheritance in favor of a life of poverty consecrated to God.
“. . . [H]e said today serves as a good occasion to invite the Church to strip itself of worldliness. All of the baptized comprise the Church and all have to follow Jesus, who stripped himself and chose to be a servant and to be humiliated on his way to the Cross. ‘And if we want to be Christians, there is no other way, he said.”
A recent Vatican Radio broadcast reported on the Pope’s address, in which he stated that the Church - clergy, hierarchy and religious, and each lay person – must “strip ourselves of . . . worldliness. Worldliness does us harm. It is so sad to find a worldly Christian. (Friday was the feast day of Saint Francis.)
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