Free your heart, Pope urges in catechetical message
April 09, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: In his catechetical message for April 9, Pope Francis discussed Christ’s meeting with the rich young man, recounted in St. Mark’s Gospel.
The Pope’s catechetical messages are ordinarily delivered during his regular weekly public audiences on Wednesday. During his hospitalization, and continuing during his convalescence, the Vatican has issued a text of the papal message, although the audiences have been cancelled.
In the April 9 message, the Pope remarked that the rich young man could not answer Christ’s invitation because he was attached to his possession. The Pope told the faithful that “we must ‘sell everything that weighs us down, in order to free our hearts.”
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