The pontiff urged the faithful not to allow their spiritual life “to soften in mediocrity.”
Pope Francis today criticized the “sleepy” Christians who “pray like parrots” because this attitude makes them live indifferent and apathetic, he said before praying the Sunday Angelus from the Apostolic Palace.
“Be attentive because you cannot be a ‘sleepy Christian’, we already know that there are many, Christians anesthetized by spiritual worldliness, without spiritual impulse, without ardor in prayer, who pray like parrots, without enthusiasm for the mission and without passion. for the Gospel, “he held from the window to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square.
Reviewing the Gospel, the pontiff urged the faithful not to allow their spiritual life “to soften in mediocrity.”
Because, he argued, this attitude leads “to doze, to move forward by inertia, to fall into apathy, indifferent to everything except what is convenient for us.”
“And that is a sad life, there is no happiness there,” he warned. (I)
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