Pope Audience: God the Father
loves us like no one else can
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| Pope Francis during his weekly General Audience (Vatican Media) |
Pope Francis during his continuing catechesis on the Lord's
Prayer at the Wednesday General Audience tells pilgrims, that “when we feel
that hunger to love God, we are responding to the invitation to know God as
‘Father’."
Continuing his catechesis on the “Our Father”, on Wednesday,
the Pope told the pilgrims gathered in the Paul VI hall that the first step of
Christian prayer is to enter into the mystery of God’s paternity.
Pope Francis explained that in order to understand how God
is “Father”, we think of our own parents. But, he noted, that no parent is
perfect and we all have our defects.
God's love comes from a heavenly Father
The Pontiff went on to say that when we talk about God as
“Father”, we need to go beyond the earthly image, because God’s love comes from
a heavenly Father. Yet, we only experience this total divine love – in this
life – in an imperfect way, for our human love is wounded.
He said, “we always live our relationships of love
under the sign of our limitations and also of our own selfishness, so they are
often polluted by the desire to possess or manipulate the other".
We are all beggars of Love
"Men and women are eternally Beggars of Love”, the Pope
emphasized,… “they seek a place where they can finally be loved, but they can't
find it.”
God’s love, on the other hand, said Pope Francis, is a
perfect kind of love because He loves every single person in a way that no one
on earth ever can.
When we feel that hunger to love God, underlined the Pope,
we are responding to the invitation to know God as “Father”.
During his catechesis Pope Francis also said, “You can't
pray like parrots. Either you enter into the mystery, in the awareness that God
is your Father, or you do not pray.”
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