In his Thursday morning Mass, Pope Francis highlighted the strength of God´s love. Although people might reject His love, he explained, God never gets tired of loving.
POPE FRANCIS
'The most wicked and the most blasphemous person is loved by God with the tenderness of a father. And just as Paul said, as the Gospel said, as Jesus said: â??Like a hen with her brood.â?? And God the all-powerful, the Creator can do everything: God weeps! All of Godâ??s love is contained in this weeping by Jesus over Jerusalem and in those tears.â?
He concluded saying God weeps for every person that distances themselves from God. He loves them, he added, unconditionaly.
SUMMARY OF POPE'S HOMILY
(Source: Radio Vaticana)
'Itâ??s not because we are the victors over our enemies, over sin. No! We are so closely bound to Godâ??s love that no person, no power, nothing can ever separate us from this love. Paul saw beyond the gift, he saw more, who is giving that gift: it is a gift of recreation, itâ??s a gift of regeneration in Jesus Christ. He saw Godâ??s love. A love that cannot be explained.â?
Pope Francis noted that every man, every woman can refuse this gift by preferring their own vanity, pride or sin but despite this Godâ??s gift is always there for us.
'The gift is Godâ??s love, a God who canâ??t sever himself from us. That is the impotence of God. We say: â??God is all powerful, He can do everything!â? Except for one thing: Sever Himself from us! In the gospel, that image of Jesus who weeps over Jerusalem, helps us understand something about that love. Jesus wept! He wept over Jerusalem and that weeping is all about Godâ??s impotence: his inability to not love (us) and not sever himself from us.
The Pope goes on to explain how Jesusâ?? weeping over Jerusalem that kills its prophets and those that announce its salvation is an image of Godâ??s love and tenderness. He admonishes Jerusalem and all of us saying: 'How often have I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings and you refused!â?
'Itâ??s impossible for God to not love us! And this is our safeguard. I can refuse that love, I can refuse just like the Good Thief did, until the end of his life. But that love was waiting for him there. The most wicked and the most blasphemous person is loved by God with the tenderness of a father. And just as Paul said, as the Gospel said, as Jesus said: â??Like a hen with her brood.â?? And God the all-powerful, the Creator can do everything: God weeps!
