The Pontiff has encouraged us to contemplate the problem of abuse “with the eyes of God”, in such a way that the “divinized gaze” helps “our understanding of vulnerability, since the Lord has drawn strength from the weak, making fragility its own testimony’”, as stated in the Preface of the Martyrs.
“God calls us to an absolute change of mentality regarding our conception of relationships, privileging the minor, the poor, the servant, the ignorant, over the elder, the rich, the master, the literate, based on the capacity to welcome the grace that is given to us by God and to make ourselves a gift for others,” Pope Francis expressed.
The Holy Father has denounced that “seeing one’s own weakness as an excuse to stop being complete people and complete Christians, incapable of assuming control of their destiny, will create infantile, resentful people, and in no way represents the smallness to which Jesus invites us”.