“But you don’t pay for salvation, you don’t buy it”, he said.
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will on Friday open a Holy Door at a newly refurbished homeless centre run by the Church near Rome’s main train station. You don’t pay for salvation. This week Italian police confiscated 3,500 counterfeit parchments bearing purported blessings by the pope and were being sold to pilgrims coming to Rome for the Holy Year. Ahead of the jubilee launching, the Holy See created a special logo and urged pilgrims to be guided only by official information. “There has to be security to watch out for people’s dignity”, he told journalists December 4.
Whereas holy doors are traditionally opened only in churches in Rome, for the current jubilee year the pope asked for doors to be opened to Catholics globally.
This is a centre that offers hope and help to all who pass through its doors, but here at Termini there is also general agreement that in this Jubilee of Mercy more and more people are increasingly in need of services like these.
In an exclusive interview to Express.co.uk, the Pope’s spokesman said that the pontiff was “aware” of the threats but if did not shake him, nor did he want an alterations made to his “Popemobile” to protect himself during this year’s Christmas Day message. However, one must first recognize their sins and also forgive others in order to fully experience God’s love and forgiveness.
Pope Francis waves during the “Meeting with Families” at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. “This is his mercy; do not be discouraged, go forward”.
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