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Vatican City, Jun 4, 2013 \/ 07:06 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Instead of sugar-coated words and flattery, when Christians speak they should offer the truth with love, without seeking to serve their own interests, Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cLet us think closely today: What is our language? Do we speak in truth, with love, or do we speak with that social language to be polite, even say nice things, which we do not feel?\u201d the Pope asked during his June 4 homily in Saint Martha\u2019s House.<\/p>\n

\tThose who are corrupt, he added, \u201care trying to weaken us with this language\u201d by playing off a \u201ccertain inner weakness,\u201d stimulated by \u201cvanity\u201d that enjoys hearing people say good things about us.<\/p>\n

\tThe Holy Father\u2019s remarks were spurred by today\u2019s reading from Mark 12, in which a group of Pharisees and Herodians tried to trap Jesus by asking him if Jews should pay taxes to Caesar.<\/p>\n

\tThese men approached Jesus \u201cwith soft words, with beautiful words, with overly sweet words. They try to show themselves his friends,\u201d the Pope said.<\/p>\n

\tHowever, all of their posturing is false because \u201cthey do not love the truth\u201d but only themselves, Pope Francis stated. This results in the Pharisees trying to deceive Jesus about the reason for their questions.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHypocrisy is the very language of corruption. And when Jesus speaks to his disciples, he says: \u2018let your language be, Yes, yes! No, no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope then stressed that truth is always accompanied by love.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere is no truth without love. Love is the first truth. If there is no love, there is no truth. They want a truth enslaved to their interests. There is a love, of sorts: it is love of self, love for oneself. That narcissist idolatry that leads them to betray others, that leads them to the abuse of trust,\u201d he told the congregation.<\/p>\n

\tHe highlighted that betrayal by noting that with Jesus, those who \u201cseem so amiable in their language, are the same people who will go to fetch him on Thursday evening in the Garden of Olives, and will bring him to Pilate on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tJesus\u2019 command to speak truth with love stands in stark relief to this way of acting, the Pope said, as he described how it is the \u201clanguage of the simple, the language of a child, the language of the children of God \u2026 .\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAnd the meekness that Jesus wants us to have, has nothing, has nothing of this adulation, this sickly sweet way of going on. Nothing! Meekness is simple, it is like that of a child. And a child is not hypocritical, because it is not corrupt. When Jesus says to us: \u2018Let your speech be, Yes is yes! No, is no! \u2018with the soul of a child,\u2019 he means the exact opposite to the speech of these (hypocrites).\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe morning Mass was concelebrated by the Armenian Catholic Patriarch, Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Bishop Vianney Fernando of Kandy in Sri Lanka, and Msgr. Jean Luis Brugues of the Vatican Library.
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