Vatican City, Oct 8, 2023 / 10:52 am
Do not forget to be grateful to God for the free gift of your life and faith, Pope Francis said in his weekly message at the Vatican on Sunday.
The pope’s address before praying the Angelus Oct. 8 focused on the day’s Gospel passage and the parable Jesus told the chief priests and elders about the tenants who refused to give the landowner his due, to the point of beating and killing servants and even the landowner’s son when they were sent to collect the fruits of the harvest.
“With this parable, Jesus reminds us what happens when a person deceives himself into thinking that he does things on his own, and he forgets to be grateful, he forgets the real basis of life: that good comes from the grace of God, that good comes from his free gift,” Francis said to thousands of people from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square.