Angelus: Listen to the Lord not horoscopes or fortune
tellers
(Vatican Radio)"When you do not cling to the word of
the Lord, but have more security in consulting horoscopes and fortune tellers
you become submerged”. Those were Pope Francis’ words during his Angelus
address on Sunday in St Peter’s Square.
He was referring to the Gospel of the day where Jesus walks
on the waters of Lake Galilee to save Peter and the disciples from sinking in
their boat due to the heavy waves of the sea.
The Pope recounted how this story is rich in symbolism. The
boat, he continued, “is the life of each of us, but it is also the life of the
Church; The wind represents difficulties and trials.”
Peter's invocation: "Lord, command me to come to
you!" And his cry, "Lord, save me", the Holy Father noted
“are so much like our desire to feel the closeness of the Lord, but also the
fear and anguish that accompany the toughest moments of our lives and our
communities, marked by internal fragility and external difficulties.”
Pope Francis explained, that at that moment, Peter was not
sure of the word of Jesus, which was like a rope to cling to in hostile and
turbulent waters. This is what can happen to us as well, he said,
“when you do not cling to the word of the Lord, but to have more
security in consulting horoscopes and fortune tellers you become
submerged”.
The Gospel of today, the Pope underlined, “reminds us that
faith in the Lord and in his word does not open a path where everything is easy
and quiet for us; It does not take away the storms of life.
But faith, the Holy Father went on to say, “gives us the
assurance of a Presence, that is Christ, which pushes us to overcome the
existential buffs; Faith, in short, is not a loophole from the problems of
life, but it sustains our journey and gives it meaning.
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