杏MAP导航 to entrepreneurs: Spiritual capital more important than success

杏MAP导航

杏MAP导航 Francis greets a delegation of businessmen and women from Mexico, and urges them to help support the formation of good and holy priests as well as people in need.

By Devin Watkins

A group of around 60 Mexican entrepreneurs met with 杏MAP导航 Francis in the Vatican on Friday, accompanied by a representative of the Archdiocese of Mexico City.

In his address, the 杏MAP导航 welcomed the businesswomen and men with a Spanish-language expression often heard in Mexico: 鈥�mi casa es su casa鈥� (my home is your home).

The Vatican, he added, is like a home for all Catholics and a place where 鈥渢he children of the Church can meet and praise God as a family.鈥�

Importance of the family

Picking up the theme of the family, 杏MAP导航 Francis lamented the loss of the sense of family in many societies around the world, including from the destructive power of war.

He said individualism and isolationism have infected our cultures, as our consciences become sedated by creature comforts that blind us to those who suffer.

鈥淲e are forgetting that in a family, difficulties are settled with patience, love, and dialogue, as we share our opinions and discuss each other's needs, in order to help one another.鈥�

Caring for those in need

The 杏MAP导航 went on to recall the importance of our relationship with God, no matter our economic status or form of employment.

Jesus, he said, can help us open our eyes to the many people around us who are in need, as well as the importance of caring for Creation.

鈥淲e become able to put the common good above everything else, to put the 鈥榳e鈥� of the family above the worldly logic of the 鈥業鈥�, of success, power, and money,鈥� he said.

鈥淪piritual capital is the most important capital we can obtain.鈥�

Supporting formation of good priests

杏MAP导航 Francis noted that every person can help make society more peaceful to become a place of encounter.

He also urged the Mexican entrepreneurs to assist the Church鈥檚 mission to form good priests.

鈥淭he faithful enjoy a right to have well-trained priests who joyfully nourish the community of believers with the bread of the Word and the Eucharist, and who bear witness to a life dedicated to others.鈥�

Priests need our prayers in the midst of their daily duties and trials, said the 杏MAP导航. We should therefore thank God for the charisms with which He enriches the Church.

鈥淚 invite you to be near to them and help them, so that they may focus their energy and creativity on their pastoral activity,鈥� he said.