Vatican City, 12 January 2014 (VIS) –
This morning at 9.30 in the Sistine Chapel, on the festivity of the
Baptism of the Lord, the Holy Father presided for the first time in
his pontificate over the Holy Mass of Baptism. During the
celebration, Pope Francis baptised 32 babies: 18 girls and 14 boys.
One of the children, Giulia, was the daughter of a couple married by
civil rites only, who asked the Pope during an audience if he would
baptise their child.
“These children are a link in a
chain. You, as parents, have a son or a daughter to baptise, but a
some years from now they too will have a child to baptise, then a
grandchild... And this is the chain of faith! What does this mean? I
want to say only this: you are those who will transmit the faith, you
are the transmitters. You have the duty of transmitting faith to
these children. It is the most beautiful inheritance you can offer
them: faith! Only this. Today, take this thought home with you. We
must be transmitters of faith. Think of these, think always about how
you can transmit faith to your children”.
During his homily Pope Francis joked
about the noise and the crying of the babies. “Today the choir is
singing, but the most beautiful choir is that of children, who make
noise... Some will cry, perhaps because they are uncomfortable or
because they are hungry: if they are hungry, mothers, go ahead and
feed them, because they are the centre of today's celebration”.
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