VATICAN CITY, AUG 9, 2000 (VIS) - In today's general audience, held in St. Peter's Square, John Paul II spoke on: "The supreme encounter with Christ, Word made flesh."
The Pope affirmed that the meeting between God and man, in the person of Jesus Christ, "takes place in everyday life, in time and in space. ... When He crosses peoples lives, Christ troubles their consciences and reads in their hearts ... giving rise to penitence and love."
"The encounter with Jesus represents a kind of regeneration: it creates a new being, one capable of true worship, which consists in adoration of the Father 'in spirit and truth'."
The Holy Father indicated that "to meet Christ on one's own life journey often means to find physical recovery. To His own disciples Jesus entrusts the mission of announcing God's kingdom, conversion and the forgiveness of sins, as well as that of healing the sick, freeing from all evil and offering consolation and support."
"Christ," he continued, "came to seek, find and save all of man" and His coming "among us has the aim of leading us to the Father. ... (He) is present through His Word, 'a Word who calls, who invites, who personally summons, as happened to the Apostles'."
John Paul II concluded his catechesis by recalling that Christ is also present in the Eucharist, "source of love, of unity and of salvation," and he quoted the words "of hope and of life" that Christ pronounced in the synagogue of Capharnaum: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him ... He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day."
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