During his meeting with the cardinals this Saturday in the Vatican, the saint

Pope Leo XIV presided this morning the second commitment of his newly released pontificate: a meeting with the cardinals in the New Classroom of the Synod, the place where the general congregations were held during the days before the conclave in which he was chosen.

Before initiating their speech aimed at the sloping ones – even in Rome waiting for the inauguration mass of the pontificate on May 18 – the Holy Father invited them to join in prayer, and prayed in Latin a our father and a hole Mary.

In addition, he told the cardinals that, after his speech, he would be willing to listen to any advice or suggestion. A clear sample of its openness to dialogue and the receptive attitude that characterizes Pope Leo XIV.

The support of the cardinals, comfort before the “yoke” that overcomes any force

He began his speech giving the cardinals for his work during the time before his choice, marked by “painful days for the loss of the Holy Father Francisco”, but where “grace and consolation” has also been experienced in the spirit.

The Pontiff remarked the role of the cardinals as narrow collaborators of the Pope, something that “serves as a comfort by accepting a yoke that clearly exceeds not only my strength, but those of any other. His presence reminds me that the Lord, who has entrusted me this mission, does not leave me alone with the burden of this responsibility.”

“First of all, I know that I always tell, always, with your help, the help of the Lord, and, by your grace and providence, with the closeness of you and so many brothers and sisters who in the whole world believe in God, love the Church and maintain with prayer and good works to the vicar of Christ,” he said.

He particularly thanked the work during these days of Cardinal Dean, Giovanni Battista Re – by who also requested applause – as well as the “valuable and difficult role she has played during the time of the vacant headquarters and the convocation of the conclave” El Camarlengo, Cardinal Kevin Farrell. He also cited the cardinals who could not attend disease.

An “unworthy” successor of San Pedro

He then invited the sloping to remember that time, “at the same time sad and cheerful,” as “a easter event.”

“The Pope, from San Pedro to me, his unworthy successor, is a humble servant of God and the brothers, and nothing more than this,” he said.

As an example of this, he cited Pope Francis, “with his style of total dedication to service and sober essentiality of life, abandonment in God during the time of the mission and serene confidence at the time of return to the father’s house.”

“It is the resurrected, present in us, who protects and guides the Church, and continues to revive it in hope, through love,” he said.

When heading to the cardinals, he stressed the importance of being “docile listeners” of the voice of the Holy Spirit and “faithful ministers of their salvation designs, remembering that God loves communicating, rather than in the heat of thunder or earthquake, in ‘the rumor of a soft breeze.”

Pope Leo XIV also said that during these days he has experienced “beauty” and strength of this “immense community”, a reflection of “the true greatness of the Church, which lives in the variety of its members, united to its only head, Christ ‘Pastor and Guardian’ of our souls.”

The Church, for the Pontiff, “is the belly in which we were also generated and, at the same time, the Gray, the field that has been given to us so that we take care and cultivate it, we feed it with the sacraments of salvation and fertilize it with the seed of the word, so that, solid in the concord and enthusiastic in the mission, walk, as once the Israelites in the desert of the cloud and the light of the fire of God. ”

In this context, he invited the cardinals to renew the “full accession to that path, to the road that the universal church has been touring after the footprints of the Vatican Council II.”

Later, he cited the apostolic exhortation Gospel joy of Pope Francis, highlighting in particular his proposal of a missionary conversion of the entire Christian community; growth in school and synodality; Attention to feeling of faith; popular piety; The love care of the weak and discarded and the brave dialogue and confident with the contemporary world in its different components and realities.

“It’s about,” said the Pontiff, “of the principles of the Gospel that encourage and inspire, always, the life and work of the family of God.”

Why did you choose the name of Leo XIV?

Next, he explained the main reason why he decided to take the name of Leo XIV:

“Pope Leo XIII, with the historic encyclical Of the revolutionaryhe faced the social issue in the context of the first great industrial revolution and today the Church offers everyone, its equity of social doctrine to respond to another industrial revolution and the developments of artificial intelligence, which involve new challenges in the defense of human dignity, justice and work ”.

Leo XIV ended his speech on May 10 remembering the words of San Pablo VI at the beginning of his Petrino Ministry in 1963:

“That over the whole world passes a great flame of faith and love that enlighten all men of goodwill, racing the paths of reciprocal collaboration and that attracts about humanity, the abundance of divine benevolence, God’s very force, without whose help nothing is worth or anything is holy.”