2023-07-09 10:24:00
Pope Francis highlighted in the Angelus prayer this Sunday the importance of being like children and not getting used to or remaining indifferent to the gestures of love and miracles that God performs every day in our lives.
This Sunday, July 9, the Holy Father reflected from the window of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on the Gospel of the day, where Jesus praises the Father “for having hidden these things from the wise and prudent and having revealed them to little ones” (Mt 11.25).
The Pontiff explained that these “little ones” are the people “whose hearts are free from presumption and self-love” and stressed that “God reveals himself by freeing and healing man with a gratuitous love that saves.”
“The little ones are those who, like children, feel needed and not self-sufficient, are open to God and let his works amaze them. They know how to read their signs and marvel at the miracles of their love.”, he added.
He also assured that the greatness of God’s love “is not understood by those who presume to be great and make a god in their own image: powerful, inflexible, vengeful.”
“He cannot accept God as a Father who is proud and full of himself, concerned only with his own interests, convinced that he does not need anyone,” the Pope warned.
Therefore, he recalled that the life of each person “it is full of miracles: full of gestures of love, signs of God’s goodness”.
However, he stressed that “our hearts can also get used to it and remain indifferent, or curious but incapable of being surprised, of being impressed.”
For this reason, he invited the faithful to ask themselves the following questions: “In the tide of news that submerges us, do I know how to stop at the great things that God does, as Jesus shows us today? Do I wonder like a child for the good that silently changes the world? And do I bless the Father every day for his works?”.
Finally, he turned to the Virgin Mary and asked her “to make us capable of being amazed by his love and to praise him with simplicity.”
At the end of the Marian prayer, the Holy Father lamented “the spiral of violence” in the Holy Land and called on the authorities to “undertake a direct dialogue.”
He also asked to pray for Ukraine, “the people who suffer so much”, and also congratulated the sailors and those who work at sea on “Sea Sunday”, which is celebrated every July 9.
Below is the Gospel commented by Pope Francis:
At that time, Jesus exclaimed: “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to simple people! Thank you, Father, because that is how you it seemed good.
The Father has placed all things in my hands. No one knows the Son except the Father; no one knows the Father except the Son and the one to whom the Son wants to reveal him.
Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you relief. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and you will find rest, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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