Vatican City, Apr 21, 2020 / 02:30 am
The Holy Spirit can help Christians overcome the three temptations that destroy community life, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass Tuesday.
The pope noted April 21 that money, vanity and idle chatter have divided believers since the early days of Christianity.
"But the Spirit always comes with his strength to save us from this worldliness of money, vanity and idle chatter," he said, "because the Spirit is not the world: he is against the world. He is capable of doing these miracles, these great things."
Reflecting on the day's Gospel (John 3:7-15), in which Jesus tells Nicodemus that he "must be born from above," the pope said we are reborn through the Holy Spirit rather than by our own efforts.