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By assuming the fragile human condition, God showed his love for humanity and his desire to share the joys and sufferings of people, Pope Francis said.
During his Angelus address on Sunday, January 3, the Pope said that God made the “bold” decision to become human “to tell us, to tell you, that He loves us like this, in our fragility, in your fragility, right there, where we feel most ashamed, where we are most ashamed “.
“He enters our shame, to become our brother, to share the path of life,” he said.
After praying the Angelus and renewing his good wishes for the new year, Pope Francis said that Christians, without resorting to “the mentality of fatalism or magic”, know that “things will improve to the extent that, with the help of God, let’s work. ” together for the common good, placing the weakest and most disadvantaged at the center “.
“We don’t know what 2021 brings us, but what each one of us, and all of us together, can do is take care of each other and of creation, our common home,” he said.
However, he also warned of the temptation to “take care only of our own interests, to continue waging war,” or to live “hedonistically, that is, seeking only to satisfy our own pleasure.”
Pope Francis said he had read in a newspaper about a country, “I forget which one”, where people left in private planes to “escape from confinement and enjoy the holidays.”
“But those people, good people, didn’t they think about those who stayed at home, about the economic problems faced by many people who have been discredited by the confinement or the sick?” I ask. “They were only thinking of taking a vacation for their own pleasure. This hurt a lot.”
In his main address, the Pope reflected on the prologue to the Gospel of Saint John, in which the evangelist says that “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
Calling Christ “the Word”, the Pope explained, “means that from the beginning, God wants to communicate with us, he wants to speak to us.”
“The only begotten son of the Father wants to tell us about the beauty of being children of God,” the Pope said. “He is ‘the true light’ and wants to take away the darkness of evil. He is ‘life’, who knows our lives and wants to tell us that he has always loved them. He loves us all.”
However, he continued, Saint John’s specific use of the word “flesh” rather than a more “elegant” expression to define the humanity of Christ is intended to highlight “our human condition in all its weakness, in all its fragility. “.
“It tells us that God became fragile in order to be able to touch our fragility closely,” the Pope said. “So, from the moment the Lord became flesh, nothing in our life is alien to him. There is nothing he despises; we can share everything with him, everything.”
Furthermore, the Pope said that Christ did not “dress our humanity as a garment that can be put on and taken off”; rather, “he was united forever with our humanity,” he suffered, died, rose from the dead, and ascended to heaven body and soul.
As the Christmas season progressed, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to “pause in silence in front of the nursery to savor the tenderness of God who came close (to us), who became flesh. And without fear, let us invite him between us, to our homes, to our families. “
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