Christ’s Resurrection can bring direction to our daily lives, fulfil our thirst for meaning, and transmit hope to the world, Pope Leo XIV said during his general audience yesterday. Source: Vatican News.
“Even our time, marked by so many crosses, invokes the dawn of Paschal hope,” the Pope said.
In his catechesis, the Pope reflected on Christ’s Resurrection as “not an idea, not a theory, but the event that is the foundation of faith.”
He emphasised that truly believing in the Resurrection in our daily life means revolutionising how we live. This transformation can then help change “the world with the gentle and courageous power of Christian hope.”
“We can be his witnesses even where human history does not see light on the horizon,” the Pope said. “Paschal hope does not disappoint.”
The Pope highlighted how in Christ’s Resurrection “we find an answer to our thirst for meaning”, especially when facing situations that seem unintelligible.
“In him, we have the assurance of always being able to find the lodestar towards which we can direct our seemingly chaotic lives, marked by events that often appear confusing, unacceptable, and incomprehensible: evil in its many forms, suffering, death, and events that affect each and every one of us,” he said.
“Faced with our fragile humanity,” Pope Leo continued, Christ’s Resurrection “becomes care and healing, nourishing hope in the face of the frightening challenges that life presents us with every day on a personal and global level.”
He explained how, “in the perspective of Easter”, the Way of the Cross becomes the Way of the Light. He urged the faithful “to savour and meditate on the joy after the pain, to retrace in the new light all the stages that preceded the Resurrection.”
Christ’s Easter “is an event that does not belong to a distant past, now settled into tradition like so many other episodes in human history,” the Pope said. He noted that the Church teaches the need to make a “living remembrance” of the Resurrection by celebrating Easter every year and the Eucharist every day.
“The Paschal Mystery is the cornerstone of Christian life, around which all other events revolve,” he said, adding that “we can say, then, without any irenicism or sentimentality, that every day is Easter.”
“Hour by hour, we have so many different experiences: pain, suffering, and sadness intertwined with joy, wonder, and serenity. But through every situation, the human heart longs for fullness, a profound happiness.”
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