When Jesus sent out his disciple to begin the preaching of the Gospel, it was indeed a great sign of his trust in them. At the same time it presented them with a number of challenges: they had to realize how much Jesus trusted them and to appreciate how great was the power which he had given them. These challenges were implicit in the very act of sending them. But then Jesus added the challenge of poverty and the trust they needed that, in the name of Jesus, they could accomplish everything that he was sending them to do. What they were sent to do could not be accomplished by human resources. So in poverty they had to set all human resources aside and, in faith, accept a mind-set which later St Paul would formulate with the words: "For when I am weak then I am strong."(2 Corinthians 12:10).

Pope Francis hopes that the Church will truly become a Church of the poor. Then it will be truly a Church filled with the strength, the power and the vision of God and so be a source of "many cures" for the world.