Vatican City, Jun 12, 2017 / 11:14 am
Consolation is never self-reliant, Pope Francis said during Mass on Monday, noting it is only possible to receive the Lord's encouragement through another.
"No one can console himself, no one – and whoever tries to do it ends up looking into the mirror – staring into the mirror and trying to 'make oneself up,'" said the Pope during his June 12 Mass at the chapel of the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
"The experience of consolation, which is a spiritual experience, always needs 'someone else' in order to be full."
He reflected on the day's readings, in which Saint Paul described the need for the Lord's consolation in his second letter to the Corinthians, and the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew.