Pope Francis holds General Audience: English Summary
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis held his Wednesday
General Audience in St. Peter's Square, continuing his catechesis on Christian
hope.
He focused his remarks on Jesus' Our Father prayer as
presented in the Gospel of Luke (11:1-4) and on "The Fatherhood of God,
wellspring of our Hope".
Please find below the official English-language
summary:
Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our continuing
catechesis on Christian hope, we now consider the source of that hope in the
fatherhood of God. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray,
he taught them to call God Our Father. Here we see the great religious
revolution introduced by Christianity: taught by the Saviour’s command, we dare
to speak to the transcendent and all-holy God as children speak, with complete
trust, to a loving father. In the parable of the merciful father, who
welcomes his prodigal son with supreme forgiveness, Jesus speaks to us of the
Father’s unconditional love. In his Letters, Saint Paul twice repeats the
original Aramaic word used by Jesus in his prayer: “Abba” (cf. Rom 8:15; Gal
4:6). As God’s adoptive sons and daughters in the Holy Spirit, we share
in the intimate relationship between Jesus and the Father, and this is the
basis of our sure hope in God’s saving help. Each day, as we pray the
Lord’s Prayer, may we be confirmed in the knowledge that, in his merciful love,
our heavenly Father will watch over us, respond to our petitions, and never
abandon us.
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