Rome, Italy, Apr 18, 2019 / 10:19 am
Pope Francis celebrated the Mass of the Lord's Supper at a prison in the suburbs of Rome Thursday, urging the inmates to reflect on how they can treat each other with servants' hearts.
"It is true that in life there are problems: we quarrel among ourselves," the pope said April 18, "but this must be a thing that passes, a passing thing, because in our hearts there must always be this love of serving the other, of being at the service of the other."
"This is the rule of Jesus and the rule of the Gospel," he said, "the rule of service, not of dominating, of doing evil, of humiliating others. Service."
Recalling the moment when Jesus' apostles were arguing among themselves about who was the most important, Pope Francis said: "Jesus took a child and said, 'The child. If your heart is not a child's heart, you will not be my disciples.' The heart of a child – simple, humble, but a servant."