Christians must recall 'great tragedies'

(ANSA) - Vatican City, September 30 - In times of trouble our lament becomes a prayer, but we must make pains to not overdramatise our complaints and remember those who are experiencing "great tragedies", Pope Francis said on Tuesday.
    "I have often listened to people who are experiencing difficult and painful situations, who have lost a great deal or feel lonely and abandoned and they come to complain and ask these questions: Why? Why? They rebel against God," the Pope told faithful gathered for Mass at the St Martha guesthouse in the Vatican where he has been living since being elected to replace Benedict XVI in March 2013. "And I say, 'Continue to pray just like this, because this is a prayer'. It was a prayer when Jesus said to his father: 'Why have You forsaken me!'" Francis went on. However, he invited Christians when experiencing these moments to think of "the great tragedies, for example, of these brothers and sisters of ours who because they are Christians were driven out of their homes and left with nothing". "Our life is too easy, our complaints are overdramatised," the pope added. http://popefrancisnewsapp.com/