Pope
Francis: We must ask God for the desire to do His will
(Vatican Radio) Pope
Francis says we need to pray to God every day for the grace to understand His
will, to follow it and to carry it out fully. This was the core message
of his homily at the morning Mass on Tuesday at the Santa Marta residence.
Taking his cue from
the day’s readings, the Pope reflected on one of the cornerstones of our faith:
obedience to God’s will. This, he explained, is the path to holiness for each
Christian, namely that we carry out God’s will.
“The opposite began
in Paradise with Adam’s failure to obey. And that disobedience brought
evil to the whole of humanity. And sins too are acts of disobedience
towards God, of not doing God’s will. The Lord teaches us instead that this
is the path, there is no other one. And it begins with Jesus in Heaven,
in his desire to obey the Father. But here on earth it begins with Our
Lady: what did she say to the Angel? ‘Let it be done to me according to
your word’, namely that God’s will is carried out. And with that ‘Yes’ to
the Lord, our Lord began his journey amongst us.”
Many options on the
tray
Pope Francis,
stressed, however, that following God’s will is not easy. Even for Jesus
it wasn’t easy when he faced temptations in the wilderness or in the Gardens of
Olives. And, continued the Pope, it wasn’t easy either for his disciples
and neither is it easy for us, when each day we are faced with a tray of so
many different options and that’s why we need the gift of God’s grace.
“Do I pray that the
Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because
I’m afraid of God’s will? Another thing: praying to know God’s will for
me and my life, concerning a decision that I must take now… there are so many
things. The way in which we handle things…. Praying for the desire to do
God’s will and praying to know God’s will. And when I know God’s will,
praying again for the third time, to follow it. To carry out that will,
which is not my own, it is His will. And all this is not easy.”
Desire to do God's
will
In conclusion,
Pope Francis said, we need to pray to have the desire to follow
God’s will, pray to know God’s will and once we know this, pray for the
strength to go ahead and do His will.
“The Lord grants His
grace to all of us so that one day He can say about us the same thing
that He said about that group, that crowd who followed Him, those who
were seated around Him, just as we have heard in the Gospel: ‘Here is my mother
and my brothers and sisters. Whoever does the will of God is my brother,
my sister and my mother.’ Doing God’s will makes us become part of Jesus’
family, it makes us his mother, father, sister, brother.
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