If a person’s prayer life is boring, that generally means that he or she is focused too much on the self and not enough on Jesus and the needs of others, Pope Francis said during a morning Mass homily. “True prayer leads us out of ourselves toward the Father in the name of Jesus; it’s an exodus out of ourselves,” the pope said May 11 during Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. During the Mass, attended by members of the Vatican police force and by Argentine journalists working in Rome, Pope Francis said prayer typically involves two forms of exodus: one “toward the wounds of Jesus, and the other toward the wounds of our brothers and sisters. This is the path Jesus wants our prayer to take.” Ascending to heaven after his death and resurrection, Jesus “went to the Father, leaving the door open,” not because “he forgot to close it,” but because “he himself is the door,” the pope said, according to a report in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.