It is we who have the log, it is there”, in our own eye. This, the Pontiff continued, “is how hostilities grow between us: they begin with something small: jealousy, envy, and then this grows and we see life solely from that point of view, and that speck” in our eye “becomes a log. This sin, which he will later commit, which is couching behind the feeling, grows”.
In the end, the Pope said, “Cain favoured instinct he preferred to let this feeling stew inside him, festering and allowing it to grow.
The Lord said to Cain, ‘Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is couching at the door’ it is your instinct”. And, he continued, “as we heard, the story began with a little jealousy: Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. The story of Cain and Abel, he explained, is about “a brotherhood which was meant to grow, to become beautiful”, but instead “wound up destroyed”. Referring to the first reading from the book of Genesis (4, 1-15.25), the Pope pointed out during his homily that “it is the first time the Bible mentions the word ‘brother’”. As Fr Pachón is the former Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the Pope offered “a reflection on family”, asking that the Lord “repay all the good he has carried out and accompany him in his new mission”, followed by a heartfelt “thank you, Fr Nicolás”. Pope Francis wished to dedicate Mass on Monday, 13 February, to Fr Adolfo Nicolás Pachón, a special missionary preparing to leave for Asia.
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