(ONLY VIDEO) During the weekly catechesis the Pope asked people to reflect on how every believer trusts in God and used the example of the Virgin Mary as a model to follow.
COMPLETE CATECHESIS SUMMARY IN ENGLISH:
As we continue our Jubilee cycle of catechesis on “Jesus Christ our Hope”, we now consider
the trusting response of the Virgin Mary to the message of the Archangel Gabriel that she was chosen to be the mother of the Messiah. Mary, “full of grace”, understood and freely accepted the unique mission entrusted to her by God, and in this way cooperated with him in fulfilling the hope of Israel and in giving birth to the Saviour of the nations. Filled with the Holy Spirit, she continued to cooperate in the fulfilment of God’s plan, as we see from her maternal intercession at the wedding feast of Cana, which led to the first of the Lord’s miracles. From Mary, may we learn to trust firmly in God’s promises, to testify by our lives to the hope born of the Gospel, and to offer that hope above all to those of our brothers and sisters who are struggling and tempted to despair.
I greet the English-speaking pilgrims, especially those coming from Switzerland, England and
the United States of America, and offer my cordial good wishes that the Jubilee will be for all of you a season of spiritual renewal and growth in the joy of the Gospel. In this week of Prayer for Christian Unity, I welcome the ecumenical groups present, as well as those from the Pontifical North American College. Upon you and your families I gladly invoke God’s blessings of wisdom, strength and peace.
JRB
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