Pope Francis at Angelus: all have role in building
Church
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis prayed the Angelus with
pilgrims and tourists gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.
Gospel episode
Ahead of the traditional prayer of Marian devotion, the Holy
Father reflected on the day’s reading from the Holy Gospel according to St.
Matthew, in which the Lord asks the disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” and
Peter responds, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
Jesus said to Peter in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of
Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly
Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I
will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven;
and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Pope: Christ build Church on firm foundations
Pope Francis said the Lord continues to build His Church in
our present day. “Even with us today,” he said, “Christ desires to build His
Church, this house solid foundations, which nevertheless does not want for
cracks, and which always needs to be reformed, repaired, as in the time of St.
Francis of Assisi.”
No “stone” is useless
In this ongoing task of building and maintenance, Pope
Francis stressed that no person – which he likened to the little stones that
often cause us the most trouble when we feel them underfoot, or that appear
ill-suited to use in the edification of grand structures – is without some part
to play, some role to fill as building material.
“No stone is useless,” he said.
“Rather,” the Pope went on to say, “in the hands of Jesus
[the littlest stone] becomes precious, because he picks it up, looks at it with
tenderness, works it with his Spirit and puts it in the right place, where He
had ever a mind to put it, and where it can be most useful to the whole
building.”
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