“Jesus never dialogues with the devil, and when he was tempted in the desert, his answers were the words of the Bible, never a dialogue. Brothers and sisters, there is no dialogue with the devil! Be attentive: there is no dialogue with the devil, because if you engage in dialogue with him, he wins, always. Stay tuned,” he warned.
“So what can we do when we feel tempted and oppressed? Negotiate with the devil! No, you don’t negotiate with him. We must invoke Jesus: invoke him there, where we feel that the chains of evil and fear tighten more intensely,” he added.
The Holy Father noted that “the Lord, with the strength of his Spirit, wants to repeat to the evil one today too: ‘Go away, leave that heart in peace, do not divide the world, the families, our communities; Let them live in peace, so that the fruits of my Spirit, not yours, may flourish there. So that love, joy, meekness may reign among them, and instead of violence and cries of hatred, there may be freedom and peace.’”