Vatican City, 15 June 2014 (VIS) – At
midday sharp today, as on every Sunday, the Pope appeared at the
window of his study in the Vatican Apostolic Palace to pray the
Angelus with the thousands of faithful and pilgrims who awaited him
in St. Peter's Square. Before the prayer, Francis spoke briefly about
the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, “profound communion and
perfect love”, the origin and objective of all creation. He said,
“in the Trinity we also recognise the model of the Church, in which
we are called upon to love each other as Jesus loved us. Love is the
concrete sign that manifests faith in God the Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. Love is the distinctive feature of the Christian, as Jesus
told us: 'By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if
you have love for one another'. It is a contradiction to think of
Christians who hate each other. It is a contradiction! And the devil
seeks precisely this: to make us hate each other, because he sows the
discord of hate: he does not know love, the love that is God's!”.
He continued, “We are all called upon
to bear witness to and to proclaim the message that 'God is love',
that God is not distant from us or insensible to our human affairs.
He is close to us, He is always by our side, He walks with us to
share our joys and our pains, our hope and our strife. He loves us so
much, to the point of making Himself man; He came into the world not
to guide us but so that the world might be saved through Jesus. And
this is God's love in Jesus, this love that is so difficult to
understand but which we feel when we draw close to Jesus. And He
always forgives us, He always awaits us, He loves us very much. And
the love of Jesus that we feel is God's love”.
He added, “the Holy Spirit
communicates the divine life to us and therefore allows us to enter
into the dynamism of the Trinity, which is a dynamism of love, of
communion, of mutual service, of sharing. A person who loves others
for the very joy of loving is a reflection of the Trinity. A family
in which the members love and help each other is a reflection of the
Trinity. A parish in which the members care for each other and share
their spiritual and material assets is a reflection of the Trinity.
True love is without limits but knows how to limit itself, in order
to move towards the other, to respect the freedom of the other. Every
Sunday we go to Mass, we celebrate the Eucharist together and the
Eucharist is like the 'burning bush' in which the Trinity humbly
resides and communicates”. He explained that it is for this reason
that the Church has placed the Feast of Corpus Domini after the Feast
of the Trinity. Next Thursday, in accordance with a Roman tradition,
Holy Mass will be celebrated at the Basilica of St. John Lateran,
followed by a procession with the Holy Sacrament. The Pope invited
Romans and pilgrims to participate to “express our wish to be a
people united in the unity of the Father and the Son and the Holy
Spirit. I will see you all on Thursday, at 7 p.m., for the procession
of Corpus Domini”.
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