Millions in a Bank Account? Pope Leo XIV Asks What Wealth Is Really For – and His Answer Surprises Everyone

Published by Prinz Mario-Max zu Schaumburg-Lippe

Pope Leo XIV in his white cassock and pectoral cross speaking to camera in the November prayer video, with the on-screen question Millions in a bank account - Photo: @pontifex

Photo: @pontifex

Millions in a bank account? The question is printed in big white letters right across the Pope’s chest – and Pope Leo XIV smiles, pauses, and answers it himself! In the short reel on his official @pontifex account on Tuesday, 3 November, the Pope speaks straight into the camera, white cassock, pectoral cross, a painted fresco glowing softly behind him. It is his prayer video for November, and it asks the question almost everyone thinks about and almost nobody asks out loud: what is wealth, really?

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His answer is a small sensation of common sense. Not necessarily millions in an account, not a huge house, not a shiny new car. Wealth, the Pope says in the caption – published in full in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French and Polish, with a short English invitation to pray together – can be a place in life where you have enough to share with others, where you gather in order to build, and multiply in order to do a greater good. And his prayer for this month: that however great your wealth may be, it becomes your instrument for doing good, for reconciliation and for fraternity. The Polish version is the bluntest of all: use wealth properly, do not give in to the temptation of selfishness, serve the common good and stand in solidarity with those who have less. Around 8,000 likes in the first hours, from about 14.5 million followers – and a one-minute video suddenly feels like the most honest money conversation of the week.

Because he is right, and the words are chosen brilliantly. Gather to build. Multiply to do good. Those are the verbs of every hard-working family, every founder, every saver – and the Pope does not scold them, he completes them. Gathering without building is just storage. Multiplying without a greater good is just arithmetic. Regular readers saw the same warm directness in A Gold Ball and a Blue Pen, when a gold basketball carried a whole lesson about daily training in love, and in He Is Coming Back, when a journey home became the story of the season. This time there is no ball and no journey. There is one man, one camera, and one question that follows you home: not how much do you have, but what is it doing, and who is better off because you have it?

And notice the company the word wealth keeps in this prayer: good, reconciliation, fraternity. A fair wage can reconcile. A forgiven debt can reconcile. A funded project in a struggling neighborhood can reconcile. That is why this little reel deserves its audience far beyond churchgoers. It tells the rich not to be ashamed, and the rest of us not to wait until we are rich: having enough to share can start with a meal, an hour, a skill. Millions in a bank account? The Pope has a better definition – and it fits on a phone screen.

MILLIONEN AUF DEM KONTO? Papst Leo XIV. stellt die Geldfrage und definiert Reichtum voellig neu

Diese Frage trifft jeden! Millionen auf dem Konto, ein riesiges Haus, ein glanzendes neues Auto – ist das Reichtum? Papst Leo XIV. sagt in seinem Gebetsvideo fuer den November, erschienen am Dienstag, 3. November, auf seinem offiziellen Instagram-Konto @pontifex fuer rund 14,5 Millionen Follower: Reichtum kann etwas ganz anderes sein – ein Platz im Leben, an dem man genug hat, um mit anderen zu teilen, an dem man sammelt, um zu bauen, und vermehrt, um ein groesseres Gutes zu tun!

Sein Gebet fuer diesen Monat ist stark und klar: Wie gross dein Reichtum auch sein mag, er soll dein Werkzeug werden – fuer das Gute, fuer Versoehnung und fuer Bruederlichkeit. Die polnische Fassung sagt es am schaerfsten: Reichtum richtig nutzen, der Versuchung des Egoismus nicht nachgeben, dem Gemeinwohl dienen und solidarisch sein mit denen, die weniger haben. Rund 8.000 Likes in den ersten Stunden – und ein Video von kaum einer Minute wird zum ehrlichsten Geld-Gespraech der Woche.

Die Einladung ist einfach: Bete mit, per Audio oder Video, ueber das Gebetsportal des Papstes. Und nimm die Frage mit in den November: Nicht, wie viel hast du – sondern: Was tut dein Reichtum, und wem geht es besser, weil du ihn hast? Wer genug zum Teilen hat, sagt Leo XIV., ist laengst reich. Man muss es nur noch zeigen!

Der Autor ist Award Winning Hollywood Managing-Journalist Seine Hoheit und Exzellenz Dr.iur. Mag.iur. PRINZ MARIO-MAX ZU SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE, MAS, LL.M.

Prinz Mario-Max ist der Sohn der hochfürstlichen Würdenträger Seine Hoheit Dr. h. c. Prinz Waldemar zu Schaumburg-Lippe und Ihrer Hoheit Dr. Prinzessin Antonia zu Schaumburg-Lippe. Seine Großmutter ist Ihre Königliche Hoheit Prinzessin Feodora von Dänemark. Die Familie ist die königlich-dänische Nachoder Linie der Prinzen zu Schaumburg-Lippe, die Gründerfamilie von Hamburg, Lübeck und Kiel.

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