What a beautiful urge to leave us Pope Francis

What a beautiful exhortation left us Pope Francis. Let us remember his words addressed, last year, to seminar students, but which is valid for all Christians.

« In the moments of fatigue, anger, disappointment or failure, when the prayer itself does not help us find the inner serenity, a good book can help us to face the storm until we find our peace of mind, » said the Pontiff in a reflection on the value of literature.

« Finding a good reading book can offer an oasis that keeps us away from other less healthy choices … Literature can concentrate the experience of life in a few hours of reading. Reading the great literature, they become a thousand people and yet I remain… The great classics offers the opportunity to get out of the routine of their own thought.

« There is nothing more counterproductive than reading something from a sense of debt, making a considerable effort just because others said it is essential, » said the former sovereign.

« … What I want to emphasize … is the value of reading the novels and poems as part of the road to personal maturity … The great classics offers the opportunity to get out of their own thinking. It is beneficial for everyone to be taken out of themselves … The problem of today’s faith is not primarily to believe more or less in relation to certain doctrines. His creation and other human beings, ”said Pope Francis.