This young person asked him if it's true that he doesn't watch television, and he also asked the Pope for his opinion about the Internet.
The Pope said that television producers should make content that helps people prepare for life. He asked people who watch it to be responsible.
POPE FRANCIS
"You must learn how to choose what you watch. If I see that a program is not good for me, hurts my values, makes me vulgar or has vulgarity, I have to change the channel.”
He said that using the Internet is similar. It can be an educational tool, but users must avoid whatever prevents them from being a better person.
POPE FRANCIS
"If you young people become attached the computer, and become a slave to the computer, you lose your freedom. And if you look at dirty content on the computer, you lose your dignity. Watch TV and use the computer, but for the good things, the big things, the things that make us grow.”
-http://www.romereports.com/pg161729-pope-to-youth-in-sarajevo-if-you-look-at-dirty-content-on-the-computer-you-lose-your-dignity-en#, 6 June 2015
"If you look at dirty content on the computer, you lose your dignity"
Pope Francis: Put a lock in your heart
(AsiaNews) - To prevent evil from entering into our hearts, there is an ancient, but very good, practice, the examination of conscience. We should carry this out every evening, to "ensure" the devil who "is patient" and "very clever" does not enter . This was the focus of Pope Francis' homily at morning Mass in Casa Santa Marta, commenting on the Gospel of the day which reminds us that the devil always returns, he never stops tempting man: "The devil is patient", "he will never give up on what he wants for himself".
As reported by Vatican Radio, the Pope observed that "After the temptations, in the desert, when Jesus was tempted by the devil, in Luke's version it says that the devil left Him for a time, but during the life of Jesus he returned again and again: when they put Him to the test, when they tried to trap Him, in the Passion, finally on the Cross. 'But if you are the Son of God... but you come, you come from us, so we cannot believe.' And we all know that these words touch the heart: 'But can you do it? Let me see! No, you can't.' That's how the devil even to the end [dealt] with Jesus... and likewise with us."
We need to guard our hearts, where the Holy Spirit dwells, the Pope said, "so that other spirits do not enter. To guard the heart, as a house is guarded, with a key." And then to watch the heart, like a sentinel: "How often," he asked, "do wicked thoughts, wicked intentions, jealousy, envy enter in? So many things that enter in. But who has opened that door? Where do they enter from? If I do not realize [how much] enters into my heart, my heart becomes a piazza, where everything comes and goes. A heart without intimacy, a heart where the Lord cannot speak and cannot even be heard."
"And Jesus says something else here - doesn't He? - that sounds a little strange: 'He who does not gather with me scatters.' He uses the word 'to gather.' To have a gathering heart, a heart in which we know what happens, and here and there you can perform a practice as old as the Church, but good: the examination of conscience. Who of us, at night, at the end of the day, remains by himself, by herself, and asks the question: what happened today in my heart? What happened? What things have passed through my heart? If we don't do this, we have truly failed to know how to watch and guard [our hearts] well."
The examination of conscience "is a grace, because to guard our heart is to guard the Holy Spirit, Who is within us": "We know - Jesus says clearly - that the devil always returns. Even at the end of life, He, Jesus, gives us an example of this. And to guard, to watch, so that the demons don't enter in, we must be able to gather ourselves, that is, to stand in silence before ourselves and before God, and at the end of the day ask ourselves: 'What happened today in my heart? Did anyone I don't know enter? Is the key in its place?' And this will help us to defend ourselves from so much wickedness, even from that which we could do if these demons, who are very clever and at the end would cheat all of us, even if they enter."
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope:-an-examination-of-conscience-to-defend-us-from-the-devil-who-is-patient-and-very-clever-32388.html
教宗清晨彌撒：守護心靈，如同守護一個家、一把鑰匙
良心省察幫助我們抵制罪惡
（亞洲新聞及梵蒂岡電台訊）- 我反省，「在初期教會時代十分普遍的做法，也是很好的。」每天晚上這樣做，有助於「監督」以便防止魔鬼進入到我們的心裡。魔鬼是很「有耐性的」、「狡猾的。」這是今天教宗方濟各在彌撒聖祭講道中圍繞福音講解的道理。福音記載魔鬼總是會來，永遠也不會放棄誘惑人。「撒旦有耐性」， 「不會放手他們想要的。」
據梵蒂岡廣播電台報導，教宗指出「耶穌在曠野中遭到魔鬼誘惑後，《路加福音》指魔鬼離開了祂一段時間，但在耶穌的生活中又回來了、多次回來：當他們考驗祂時、試圖給祂設置陷阱時、在祂受難時、直到十字架上。『如果你是天主子，那你就來呀，來到我們中間，這樣我們就相信了』。我們都知道這句話直接觸動了人心：『你有這個本事嗎？讓我看看！不，你沒這個本事』。正如魔鬼最後對耶穌所作的，也對我們這樣做。」
需要保護我們的心，那居住著聖神的心，「不讓其他神進來。」守護心靈，如同守護一個家、一把鑰匙。要像哨兵一樣警惕自己的心靈。「多少次，我們的心裡有過壞的想法、壞主意、嫉妒、仇視。許多東西進來了，但誰開啟了那扇門？它們又是從什麼地方進入的呢？如果我沒有註意到」多少「進入了我的心裡，我的心便成了廣場，所有人都進進出出。一個沒有隱私的心、一個上主不能講話的心，甚至不能被聆聽的心。」
「耶穌說了另外的，不是嗎？似乎有些奇怪：『誰沒有接納到我，便迷失了』。」採用了「接納」一詞，「擁有一顆接納的心、一顆懂得在發生什麼的心。這裡可以採用初期教會十分常用的方式，也是好的：自我反省。我們中的哪一個人，晚上，也就是一天結束前，只剩下自己時、孤獨一人時，自問過：『今天我的心裡發生了什麼？有什麼我不認識的進來了嗎』？如果不這樣做，那我們真的不知道怎樣警惕和保護好我們的心了。」
最後，教宗指出，自我反省「是恩寵。因為保護我們的心是保護聖神、在我們內的聖神。」「我們知道，耶穌說得很清楚，魔鬼會回來、總會回來。即便是在臨終時，祂也給我們作出了榜樣，耶穌給我們作出了榜樣。為了監督，不讓魔鬼進來，就需要懂得接納我們自己，即學會在自己、在天主面前保持沉默；在一天即將結束時自問：『今天我的心裡發生了什麼？有什麼我不認識的進來了嗎？鑰匙放好了嗎』？這將有助於我們免遭許多壞東西傷害，包括我們自己能做的，如果魔鬼進來了，他們是狡猾的，最後就會詐取一切。」
--Pope Francis, 10 October 2014, Santa Marta
Late have I loved you
From The Confessions of St Augustine
All my hope lies in your great mercy
Where did I find you in order to make your acquaintance in the first place? You could not have been in my memory before I learned to know you. Where then could I have found you in order to learn of you, if not in yourself, far above me? “Place” has here no meaning: further away from you or toward you we may travel, but place there is none. O Truth, you hold sovereign sway over all who turn to you for counsel, and to all of them you respond at the same time, however diverse their pleas.
Clear is your response, but not all hear it clearly. They all appeal to you about what they want, but do not always hear what they want to hear. Your best servant is the one who is less intent on hearing from you what accords with his own will, and more on embracing with his will what he has heard from you.
Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
Lo, you were within,
but I outside, seeking there for you,
and upon the shapely things you have made
I rushed headlong – I, misshapen.
You were with me, but I was not with you.
They held me back far from you,
those things which would have no being,
were they not in you.
You called, shouted, broke through my deafness;
you flared, blazed, banished my blindness;
you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you;
I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst;
you touched me, and I burned for your peace.
When at last I cling to you with my whole being there will be no more anguish or labour for me, and my life will be alive indeed, alive because filled with you. But now it is very different. Anyone whom you fill you also uplift; but I am not full of you, and so I am a burden to myself. Joys over which I ought to weep do battle with sorrows that should be matter for joy, and I do not know which will be victorious. But I also see griefs that are evil at war in me with joys that are good, and I do not know which will win the day. This is agony, Lord, have pity on me! It is agony! See, I do not hide my wounds; you are the physician and I am sick; you are merciful, I in need of mercy.
Is not human life on earth a time of testing? Who would choose troubles and hardships? You command us to endure them, but not to love them. No-one loves what he has to endure, even if he loves the endurance, for although he may rejoice in his power to endure, he would prefer to have nothing that demands endurance. In adverse circumstances I long for prosperity, and in times of prosperity I dread adversity. What middle ground is there, between these two, where human life might be free from trial? Woe betide worldly prosperity, and woe again, from fear of disaster and evanescent joy! But woe, woe, and woe again upon worldly adversity, from envy of better fortune, the hardship of adversity itself, and the fear that endurance may falter. Is not human life on earth a time of testing without respite?
On your exceedingly great mercy, and on that alone, rests all my hope.
聖思定懺悔錄 我的全部希望在於祢的大慈大 悲
我在哪裏找到了祢，而認識了 祢呢？因為在我認識祢之前， 我的記憶裏還沒有祢。除非在 祢內並超乎我，我還能在何處 找到祢，而認識祢呢？沒有一 處地方，我們接近祢或遠離祢 並不涉及任何地方。祢是真 理，無所不在，祢到處答覆詢 問祢的人們，並同時答覆所有 詢問不同問題的人。
祢的答覆是清晰的，然而並非 所有的人都聽得清楚。罪人都 詢問他們所願問的，却不會常 常聆聽他們所願意聽的答覆。 祢最好的僕人是這樣的，他不 大關心他所願意從祢那裏聽到 的話，而更關心祢願意他從祢 那裏聆聽的話。
我愛祢太晚了！祢這萬古常新 的美，我愛祢太晚了！請看， 祢曾在我內，而我却在外邊， 並在外邊尋找祢。醜陋的我投 身在祢所造的這些美物中。祢 曾和我在一起，我却沒有和祢 在一起。那些受造物使我遠離 祢，如果它們不在祢內，就絕 不會存在。你呼喚過我，也高 喊過並開啟我的耳聾。祢曾放 出光芒，照耀過我，驅除了我 的眼瞎。祢曾散發芬芳，我聞 到了，我現在渴望祢。我嘗到 了祢，現在我愛祢如飢似渴。 祢觸摸了我，我切望祢的和平 而心熱如焚。
當我整個與祢結合之後，我再 沒有痛苦和疲勞；我的生命將 富有活力，完全充滿了祢。現 在，因為祢充滿一個人時，祢 也減輕他的負擔；而我因為還 沒有充滿祢，我是我自己的一 個重擔。我所應哭泣的今世之 喜樂與我所應慶幸的今世之憂 傷互相衝突，我不知道勝利屬 於哪一方。
主啊，我是有禍的，可憐我 吧！我那些不對的憂傷，與我 那正當的喜樂互相衝突，我不 知道勝利屬於哪一方。主啊！ 我是有禍的，可憐我吧！我是 有禍的！請看，我不想掩飾我 的創傷；祢是醫生，我是病 人；祢是仁慈的，我是可憐 蟲！
難道「人生在世，不是一項考 驗嗎？」誰願意有煩惱和困難 呢？祢命令我們忍受，而不是 愛它們。誰也不會去愛那他所 忍受的──即使他可能愛這忍受 的行為本身。因為即使有人喜 歡忍受，他也寧願沒有什麼要 忍受的。在逆境中，我渴望順 境；在順境中，我畏懼逆境。 在這兩極端之間，是否有一中 間地帶，人生在哪裏不是一項 考驗呢？世俗的順境中難免一 而再地發生災禍：對逆境的畏 懼，歡樂的消失；世俗的逆境 也是一而再、再而三的災禍： 對順境的渴望，逆境本身的難 以忍受，並害怕痛苦會使之滅 頂。難道「人生在世，不是一 項不斷的考驗嗎？」
我的全部希望只在於祢的大慈 大悲。
Ex Confessiónum libris sancti Augustíni epíscopi
Tota spes mea in magna misericordia tua posita est
Ubi te invéni ut díscerem te? Neque enim iam eras in memória mea, priúsquam te díscerem. Ubi ergo te invéni, ut díscerem te, nisi in te supra me? Et nusquam locus, et recédimus et accédimus, et nusquam locus. Véritas, ubíque prǽsides ómnibus consuléntibus te simúlque respóndes ómnibus étiam divérsa consuléntibus.
Líquide tu respóndes, sed non líquide omnes áudiunt. Omnes unde volunt cónsulunt, sed non semper quod volunt áudiunt. Optimus miníster tuus est, qui non magis intuétur hoc a te audíre quod ipse volúerit, sed pótius hoc velle quod a te audíerit.
Sero te amávi, pulchritúdo tam antíqua et tam nova, sero te amávi! Et ecce intus eras et ego foris et ibi te quærébam et in ista formósa quæ fecísti, defórmis irruébam. Mecum eras, et tecum non eram. Ea me tenébant longe a te, quæ si in te non essent, non essent. Vocásti et clamásti et rupísti surditátem meam, coruscásti, splenduísti et fugásti cæcitátem meam, flagrásti, et duxi spíritum et anhélo tibi, gustávi et esúrio et sítio tetigísti me, et exársi in pacem tuam.
Cum inhǽsero tibi ex omni me, nusquam erit mihi dolor et labor, et viva erit vita mea tota plena te. Nunc autem quóniam quem tu imples, súblevas eum, quóniam tui plenus non sum, óneri mihi sum. Conténdunt lætítiæ meæ flendæ cum lætándis mæróribus, et ex qua parte stet victória néscio. Conténdunt mæróres mei mali cum gáudiis bonis, et ex qua parte stet victória néscio. Ei mihi! Dómine, miserére mei! Ei mihi! Ecce vúlnera mea non abscóndo: médicus es, æger sum; miséricors es, miser sum.
Numquid non tentátio est vita humána super terram? Quis velit moléstias et difficultátes? Tolerári iubes eas, non amári. Nemo quod tólerat amat, etsi toleráre amat. Quamvis enim gáudeat se toleráre, mavult tamen non esse quod tóleret. Próspera in advérsis desídero, advérsa in prósperis tímeo. Quis inter hæc médius locus, ubi non sit humána vita tentátio? Væ prosperitátibus sǽculi semel et íterum a timóre adversitátis et a corruptióne lætítiæ! Væ adversitátibus sǽculi semel et íterum et tértio a desidério prosperitátis et quia ipsa advérsitas dura est, et ne frangat tolerántiam! Numquid non tentátio est vita humána super terram sine ullo interstítio?
Et tota spes mea non nisi in magna valde misericórdia tua.
St Augustine's Prayer for Purity
O Lord, all my hope is based on Your great mercy. Give me what you command, and command what You will.
You command that we be continent. Someone has said that no one can be continent unless God grants it, but it is true wisdom to know from whom this gift comes.
Continence brings us recollection and the restoration of that unity we have lost in giving ourselves to too many things. He loves You less who loves, together with You, anything which he does not love for You.
O love, ever burning and never extinguished, O charity, O my God, inflame me!
You command me to be continent; give me what You command and command what You will.
-- St Augustine
Consecrating the five senses to God
O my sweet Lord,
I renew with all my heart the consecration of my senses to You.
I consecrate to You my eyes, that they may seek only Your Face and the things that lead to You;
I consecrate to You my tongue, that it may be worthy to sing Your praises and may never utter a word displeasing to You;
I consecrate to You my ears, that they may listen to Your voice alone and hear only what is necessary for Your service;
I consecrate to You my sense of smell, of taste, of touch, that they may take delight in You alone....!
-- Roman Breviary
SHAKESPEARE ON CHASTITY
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and, till action, lust
Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight; 5
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; 10
A bliss in proof--and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
--William Shakespeare, Sonnet 129
Q: Holy Father, I’ll ask my question in English. I know you will speak principally in Italian, but we would be grateful for at least a few words in English. The Catholic church in the United States is large and dynamic, but also suffering, above all because of the recent sexual abuse crisis. The American people are waiting to hear what you have to say on this subject. What will your message be?
Benedict XVI: It is a great suffering for the church in the United States, for the church in general, and for me personally that this could happen. If I read the histories of these victims, it’s difficult for me to understand how it was possible that priests betrayed in this way their mission to give healing and to give the love of God to these children. We are deeply ashamed, and we will do all that is possible that this cannot happen in the future.
I think we have to act on three levels.
The first is the level of justice, the juridical level. We now have also norms to react in a just way. I would not speak in this moment about homosexuality, but pedophilia, [which] is another thing. We will absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry, this is absolutely incompatible. And who is really guilty of being a pedophile cannot be a priest. So the first level is, as we can do justice and help clearly the victims, because they are deeply touched. So [there are] two sides of justice, on the one hand that pedophiles cannot be priests; on the other hand, to help in all the possible ways to the victims.
The second level is the pastoral level, the level of healing and help of assistance and of reconciliation. This is a big pastoral engagement, and I know that the bishops and the priests and all the Catholic people in the United States will do all possible to help assist and to heal, and to help that in the future these things cannot happen.
The third point [is that] we have made a visitation in the seminaries to also do what is possible in the education of seminarians for a deep, spiritual, human and intellectual formation –with discernment so that only sound persons can be admitted to the priesthood, only persons with a deep personal love for Christ and a deep sacramental love, to exclude that this can happen [again]. I know that the bishops and the rectors of seminarians will do all that is possible so that we have a strong discernment, because it’s more important to have good priests than to have many priests. This is also our third level, and we hope that we can do, and we have done, and we will do in the future, all that is possible to heal this wound.....
(From Whispers in the Loggia, http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2008/04/from-plane.html)