Pope at Angelus: Sustain each
other within the family - just as Jesus, Mary and Joseph did
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| Pope francis during the Sunday Angelus (ANSA) |
During his Angelus on Sunday, feast of the Holy Family of
Nazareth, Pope Francis describes each person in the Family, explaining why
they, together, sustain each other.
By Francesca Merlo
Adressing the faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square for the
Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis explained that the Holy Family of Nazareth is made
holy through “a gift of God”, and at the same time, because of their “free and
responsible adherence to his plan”. The family of Nazareth, he explained “was
open to God’s will”.
Looking at the Holy Family, Pope Francis began by analysing
Mary, describing her “docility” at the action of the Holy Spirit. “How can one
not remain amazed by it?” he asked.
Mary
Mary, like so many young women, was “about to solidify her
plan for her life through a profound communion with her spouse”, he explained.
However, when she became aware of the mission to which God was calling her,
“she did not hesitate to proclaim herself ‘servant’”.
Joseph
Turning then to the figure of Joseph, “the Gospel does not
report a single word” on him, said the Pope. Joseph "does not speak, but
obeys through is actions”. Pope Francis used the “delicate moment” in which he
wanted to secretly send Mary away because she was pregnant as an example. “His
choice”, said the Pope, was made so as not to be “an obstacle in God’s plan”,
and so as to “allow Mary to be free to adhere to the divine will”.
Jesus
Finally, the Pope looks at Jesus, the third member of the
Holy Family of Nazareth. He is the “will of the Father”, said the Pope. St Paul
says that in Him there was not a “yes” and a “no”, but only a “yes”. This,
continued the Pope, manifested itself “in so many moments during His early
life”:
“The episode in the temple when, to his parents who
searched anxiously for him, he responded: “Did you not know that I had to be
about my Father’s business?” (Lk 2,49); He repeated continually: “My food is to
do the will of Him who sent me” (Jn 4,34); His prayer in the Garden of Olives:
“My Father, if this chalice cannot be taken away unless I drink it, may your
will be done” (Mt 26,42).”
All these events, said the Pope, are the “perfect
realisation of these words of Christ, who said: Sacrifice or offering you did
not desire […]. Then I said: ‘Behold, I come […] to do your will, Oh God’.”
A family
Pope Francis concluded his address by saying that this
Family represents a “choral response” to the will of the Father. The three
components helped each other endlessly to “discover and fulfil God’s plan”.
The Pope prayed that the family be a model, so that parents
and children might mutually sustain each other in adhering to the Gospel, “the
foundation of the holiness in the family”.
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