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\n The pontiff warned of the risk of a superficial spiritual life \u201cin an age of hyperconnectivity\u201d in which it becomes increasingly \u201cdifficult to experience silence and solitude,\u201d emphasizing that without an encounter with God, \u201cwe cannot even truly know ourselves.\u201d \/ Credit: Vatican Media<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Vatican City, Jun 24, 2025 \/ 16:37 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

On June 24, Pope Leo XIV urged hundreds of seminarians from around the world to bear witness to the \u201ctenderness\u201d and \u201cmercy\u201d of Christ in a \u201cworld where ingratitude and the thirst for power often prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also asked that formation centers for future priests be \u201ca school of affectivity\u201d that teaches them to love as Jesus did.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seminary, whatever its form, should be a school of affectivity. Today, in particular, in a social and cultural context marked by conflict and narcissism, we need to learn to love and do so like Jesus,\u201d the pontiff stated on June 24 in the catechesis he gave during his first official meeting with seminarians from the five continents.<\/p>\n

As he entered St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, where the encounter took place as part of the Jubilee of Seminarians, Bishops, and Priests, the pope was greeted with enthusiastic applause, and his address was interrupted several times by the seminarians chanting \u201cPope Leo!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday you are not just pilgrims, but witnesses of hope,\u201d Pope Leo XIV told seminarians on June 24, 2025, encouraging them to allow themselves to be molded by the Holy Spirit and to practice a lifestyle marked by \u201cgratitude, tenderness, and mercy.\u201d Credit: Vatican Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He even spoke a few words spontaneously in Spanish during the encounter with the future priests, who traveled to Rome this week to participate in the 2025 Jubilee Year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll also say a few words in Spanish. Thank you for having courageously accepted the Lord\u2019s invitation to continue being a disciple, to be courageous, to enter the seminary. And do not be afraid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Holy Father exhorted the seminarians to embrace \u201cthe sentiments of Christ, to grow in human maturity, especially affective and relational,\u201d and to reject \u201call masks and hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t hide your limitations<\/h2>\n

\u201cWith our gaze fixed on Jesus, we must also learn to give a name and a voice to sadness, fear, anguish, and indignation, bringing it all into our relationship with God. Crises, limitations, and weaknesses must not be hidden but rather are occasions of grace and paschal experience,\u201d he counseled.<\/p>\n

The pope told the seminarians that the center of every journey of discernment must be the heart, although at times \u201cit can be frightening, because there are also wounds there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to care for them, allow yourselves to be helped, because precisely from these wounds will be born the capacity to be close to those who suffer. Without an interior life, a spiritual life is not possible, because God speaks to us precisely there, in the heart,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n

The pontiff said that just as Christ loved with a human heart, priests \u201care called to love with the heart of Christ,\u201d noting that the path toward this configuration with Jesus involves cultivating interiority, prayer, and discernment.<\/p>\n

In this regard, he emphasized that they must \u201clearn to recognize the movements of the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only the quick and immediate emotions characteristic of young people, but above all your sentiments, which help you discover the direction of your life. If you learn to know your heart, you will become increasingly authentic and will no longer need to wear masks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He also made it clear that the privileged path to interiority is \u201cprayer.\u201d <\/p>\n

The pontiff warned of the risk of a superficial spiritual life \u201cin an age of hyperconnectivity\u201d in which it becomes increasingly \u201cdifficult to experience silence and solitude,\u201d emphasizing that without an encounter with God, \u201cwe cannot even truly know ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cry of the poor and oppressed<\/h2>\n

The Holy Father also asked the seminarians to listen, as Jesus did, to \u201cthe often silent cry of the little ones, the poor and the oppressed, and of so many \u2014 especially young people \u2014 who are searching for meaning in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing of you must be discarded, but everything must be embraced and transformed into the logic of the grain of wheat, so that you may become happy persons and priests, bridges, not obstacles, to the encounter with Christ of those who approach you.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also acknowledged that today, engaging in \u201cthe fascinating adventure of the priestly vocation\u201d is \u201cnot at all easy\u201d and praised their decision to \u201cbecome gentle and strong heralds of the Word that saves, servants of a Church that is open and has a missionary outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Witnesses of hope<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe wisdom of Mother Church always seeks the most appropriate forms for the formation of ordained ministers,\u201d the pope noted, but he emphasized that this mission cannot be fulfilled without the active involvement of the seminarians themselves.<\/p>\n

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Pope Leo XIV reciprocates the enthusiasm of the seminarians in attendance at a gathering for the Jubilee of Seminarians on June 24, 2025, at the Vatican. Credit: Vatican Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cToday you are not just pilgrims but witnesses of hope,\u201d he told them, encouraging them to allow themselves to be molded by the Holy Spirit and to practice a lifestyle marked by \u201cgratitude, tenderness, and mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n

On several occasions, Leo XIV took up the image of the heart of Jesus as a symbol of the priesthood according to God and quoted in this regard Pope Francis\u2019 last encyclical, \u0623\u062d\u0628\u0646\u0627 (Dilexit Nos)<\/em><\/a>: \u201cThe heart of Christ is animated by immense compassion: He is the Good Samaritan of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Leo concluded by pointing out that seminarians must learn to \u201cfeed\u201d the people of God, not only with words but also with the dedication of their own lives.<\/p>\n

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